Snowball? 🍧
Is watching the miles pile up like making a snowball? Those miles accumulate; and the total grows and grows. My RAGBRAI equipment is like a snowball, too. It just keeps piling up!
They say it’s good to have at least 500 miles of training as you go into RAGBRAI; and that 1000 miles is even better. Between the road bike and the hybrid, I’ve put in 2000+ this year. Today I rode 51.5 miles; and am aiming for a 70-mile ride by late June. That’s not so far off!
I must add 5 miles to the week’s longest ride, every week. I’d rather add in the miles every two weeks; but it looks like time is getting short for that.
In addition, a cyclist must guard aginst burnout. For some weeks now, I’ve totaled 100+ miles every week; and towards the end of last week I noticed that I was feeling tired. I think I’d better take that as a warning signal.
Burnout?🔥
Burnout isn’t something to play around with. You wouldn’t play with fire, right? And burnout can badly disrupt the snowball process, forcing you to take time off the bike. Who wants that?
We also want to avoid overuse injuries. That’s why I began working towards RAGBRAI months ago; I don’t seem to have the body type that responds favorably to sudden and large workloads. I guess I’m what Joe Friel calls a “slow responder”. So I suppose you’d better not call me in case of fire.
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