Motivation

I am sitting here, just sipping away at the last precious drops of cold coffee that cling staunchly to the bottom of my favorite mug, in my pajamas and working away at my computer. Ahead of me is a double-day workout. A hard one too: my hell workout on the trainer to work on my sprint, then a training race later on tonight. Right now, I keep picking up my mug, sucking for that last bit- trying hard to believe that it is not done. There must be more coffee left. I can’t be ready to start my workout yet! I still have a lot of morning left!

My routine usually involves me getting up and going to my computer. Sigh. Not a good idea as it usually sucks me in (much more effectively than my attempts at my cold coffee) and delays me getting on my bike. Partly, I like it. Since I do so much work with team stuff, I always have a ton of things on my plate to attend to and, invariably, when I get up in the morning, I have several emails alerting me to some of the multitude of things that need to get done that day. And, it is nice to get a easy start on the day and not feel rushed out the door.

But, it is not always great. I really would prefer to get up early and be on my bike at 8 every morning. That never happens though. Unless I am meeting someone else at 8, I never seem to get out the door before 10-11. When I use to train with others, I always rode early- but that whole motivation thing is hard. I am not un-motivated! But I have to contend with momentum, and that is sometimes hard to do.

I am looking forward to getting out the door- but my bike is in a bag and needs to be unpacked. I just flew back from Chicago where I had done Elk Grove last Sunday. Fun race: but disappointingly few riders there. I had a disappointing race personally and finished 5th. It was the Cheerwine show, since they had LVG and a full squad and all the other NRC teams only had a handful of riders. We were all marked, so no break that we were in would stick whereas local riders would ride off the front all day. It ended up being a strange race and the sprint was pretty chaotic. I was fighting to not get boxed in and jumped later than I wanted to. After having someone swing in front of me and almost take out my front wheel, I had to scrub some speed and did not get a chance to come around the riders in front of me. With how much I have been training and how dead my legs have been, I was not expecting a strong performance- just good training. So, I have to keep that in perspective. I want a strong showing at Downer’s next weekend. THAT one is my race to win.

I have a great bike bag where it will take me about 5 minutes to get my bike together: all I do is rotate the handlebars and take off the rear derailluer. So, I should really get up and do that. Come on Brooke... chamois-up! I know that I will have a good ride... it has been beautiful out and I am looking forward to getting outside. But damn that momentum... one more cup of coffee for the road?