It\’s May Day!

What?! It\’s already MAY?

I don\’t know where the time goes; and like most cyclists, I wish I had more time to ride. Maybe I need The Time-Crunched Cyclist?

It sounds as though following the \”crunched\” plan means short, very intense, rides several times a week. I\’m not sure I\’m fit enough for that; and intense riding isn\’t so easy when I\’m out on the bicycle as little as half an hour after dragging myself out of bed. Sometimes it\’s only 15 minutes after I get up!

Six hours a week? I usually get 6-8 hours a week on the road bike; if I ride to work daily and go to the salvage store Saturday, I\’ll get in a few more hours on the hybrid. My weekly total hours are sometimes over eleven.

I do intense (for me) work once, maybe twice, a week. The total time spent riding really hard usually isn\’t more than 5-6 minutes.

Do I need more? Maybe, if I\’m ever to improve my regular cruising pace. On the other hand, I don\’t need to wind up crunched to exhaustion because I\’m trying too hard to compensate for being crunched for time.

Oh, as to May Day — I should be thankful that it\’s not a mayday.