boring stats turned semi-interesting

I've been feeling stuck at 90% a lot recently. I usually blame it on the heat, but, on Thursday, Bill Marut pointed I should take a slight breather soon, then really kick up the training before school starts. To give myself a break, I wanted to bury myself really good going into a rest-ish/easy week.

So after Thursday I started keeping the gas (fatigue) on until Tuesday night. Since last Tuesday I have done a fair amount of riding:

Tuesday 7/26 - Westlake 915kj, 2.5hrs, 55 miles.

Wednesday 7/27 - 650kj, 2hrs EN, 26 miles.*

Thursday 7/28 - LeRoy 726kj, 1.5hrs, 28 miles.

Friday 7/29 - 790kj, 2hrs EN, 29 miles.

Saturday 7/30 - Lakewood 543kj, 1.5hrs, 30 miles.

Sunday 7/31 - 1538kj, 3.6hrs EN, 46 miles.*

Monday 8/1 - 1620kj, 2.6hrs EN, 47 miles.

Tuesday 8/2 - 2097kj, 3.7hrs, 80 miles.

*Cyclocross bike.

That totaled up to 18 hours and 57 minutes of riding since Tuesday. Consistency.

I also think this past Tuesday was the first time I have ridden over 77 miles at 80 miles. But it felt quick because I averaged 21.3mph for the night sitting in the motorpace (A race)

So anyway, that was 341 miles from Tuesday to Tuesday. My dad always jokes (not really joking) that anything in the 70s/80s under 300 miles/week was considered a rest week. And all that rest does is hurt you. No matter what. This shouldn't be too much of a surprise considering for a good time my dad was on Chews' brothers' team. I wouldn't call that family nuts (I don't know them personally), but I'll just use a stat to describe Dan: He rode 134 centuries in 1994, and 31 double-centuries that same year~ that's more than a century every 3 days, and a doulble-century once every two weeks!