Update

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7851588276243955157.post-15706793737983715032008-02-07T23:13:00.000-07:002008-02-07T23:42:56.168-07:00UpdateYikes....I am flailing on my goal to post more in oh eight! OK so get off my back about it already sheeeesh!! Lets see...... I'm training hard, havn't missed many days at all, and I still feel good about the 2008 racing season. I did miss some time due to my broken ribs and my knee...but as of about mid-January Im back in the saddle full time. I am slowly getting closer to the race shape I want to be in, making good progress, and am am really looking forward to the season. Im still teaching up at Loveland - Ive taken a couple more clinics from a few of the senior instructors and Im really re-learning how to ski properly after...35 years of skiing! Im bummed that due to work obligations I will miss the instructor NASTAR race tomorrow because I am skiing really well, very strong, and possibly am skiing better than I ever have. The race is a mandatory part of my PSIA Level I requirement, and I am certain I would easily hork a Silver if not a Gold. I have a ton of NASTAR medals and from my racing background, and in my age group..its a sort of cake walk really. But..I dont need the Level I until next year, and we have about 8 more weeks of the 2008 season for me to finish my other clinic training, so it's all good for now on the ski instructor front! Last night a bunch of Ride Againt The Machine MTB-ers met over at Pleskos house to get the new kits. They look cool, and Scott did great job wiht the design. Very cool kit. Since I am on both a USAC and an ACA team, here in Colorado, and wil race on the track and road (or any other permitted sanctioned race) for those teams, I am not sure where I can wear the kit except for the trainer and possibly a few non-sanctioned MTB races such as MTB. But, in any cae the kit looks cool Speaking of cool...my new ACA team, Defined Fitness Training, appears to have bloomed into a huge success for my friends Megan and Rob. Megan bailed on her corporate job and is now training full time and managing the details of DFT. She has an eliet womens team, here in Colorado, and then has opened the team up to a bucnh of other racers as well. I am really looking forward to racing off the track as often as I can in the DFT kit. This coming Sunday is our Team Photo day and it ought to be fun. I guess folks are riding afterward. I will roll with them as a warm up, but then I have to do my own CP-ATP sprints on SUnday so I need to get those in on my own. After a decent warm up, I'll bail the ride and go do my intervals. he weather is looking good for a good day. Work? Work bites monkey balls right now. I hate it. Hate.....yep. I hate it. I want out. Its unhealthy and its no longer worth the stress to keep cashing the paycheck. I will stay there through the summer, and posibly thorugh next fall, and then revaluate the potential for me to make it on my own . The math doesnt quite workout in my favor yet for me to bail the 'real job' but its close.....real close. Some day soon. Lets see...what else. TaeKwonDo is going well I am re-learning everything Ive forgotten, but as I knew would happen, the speed and focus and power is coming back. I love TKD. One of the most pure martial arts and its SO good for you. Um....185 pounds this AM. After I broke my ribs I got lazy for a few weeks and then gained a couple pounds back. I never got over about 188, but I did get a bit lazy. But..things are good again, back on track the last few weeks, and slowly but surely leaning out. I was 198 at Winter Park KOTR last September. I'm sort of hoping I can get down to 178 or 179 by Cherry Creek in early April, and then maybe 175 or so by Masters Natz in September. Thatd be really lean for me, and a huge accomplishment. And really...at this point, not even all that far off.. Im done over 15 last summer.10 more is sort of reasonable. We'll see. Stay tuned. Thanks for readingSteven Truesdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13309137394776526211noreply@blogger.com