October is the usual month I take time off from the bike. Yep, the entire thirty-one days. I don't get on the bike at all but I'll do some repairs and maintenance. It's my built-in time to prevent any burnout from the previous 11 months of riding, especially from the hard race training I've done the last 4 months. It's funny in that I'm probably in the best shape I've been in over the last four years and now I'm going to let it go. The only thing I'm going to do is run...mostly road and trail running. I want to do well at the upcoming Autumn Breeze 10Km run later this month and for the Riverside V in early November (where I won my age group last year with a 36:38 for 5 miles...a lowly 7:20/mile pace). I would like to go under 35 minutes in the Riverside V and maybe under 45 minutes in the Autumn Breeze. As they say, we will see what we will see. In the meantime, I've put in just over 4,500 miles on my bikes so far this year and I want to at least be over 5,000 by the end of the year when I resume riding.
The past weekend was a busy one. I put in about 82 miles over two rides on the steel Bradley plus cleaning out the last of the gutters at my mom's house, TV shopping with Jonnene, going out to eat with friends, plus a few other things around town. I was extremely tired and not a social animal by late Sunday night.
Jonnene and I are going out of town for her birthday in a few days up into Arkansas. It should be fun and a relief to get away for a while with no pressure to be anywhere or have to do anything. Before that I have to do more work on the kitchen and straighten up a problem we've run into concerning our countertops. It's not a problem we've caused but it's one we'll have to solve regarding some mis-measuring of the counters.
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