Weight Management

This winter my lovely wife and I have tackled a much stricter diet.  She found a wonderful book full of great receipts made with as much natural ingredients as possible and serving sizes coming in around 400 calories each.  I have three meals and a snack totaling 1600 calories.  Throw in a couple coffees and a nibble on some finger foods (Cashews, etc) here and there and I come in for the day around 1800-1900.  We have greatly reduced the wine and beer consumptions, limiting it to weekends and when we do enjoy we try and keep it to a couple rather the a few :)

Lets just say, my winter weight is at an all time low on the scale, I am currently in mid March seeing numbers flash on the scale I usually see in late July in the height of racing or my peak fitness.

This is very exciting for may reasons.  One I look great.  More importantly, bike racing is greatly impacted by one's personal weight and weight of your bike.  You may ask yourself why is that, simple, GRAVITY!  The person that wins the races is the person with the best "weight-to-power" ratio.  I may put out way more power then many other cyclist but do to my very large size (in the biking world I am huge) I don't win a lot of races.  My Power has to be way higher to fight the dreaded gravity effect from my weight.    Also, why I don't send more then I already do on my bike to make it lighter since I my self could lose 10-20 lbs will give me much better results then dropping $2-3000 on a frame that weighs 3/4 lb lighter then what I have now.

Looking forward to getting outside and doing some real work out soon!

Unattached

New look and feel to the Blog for 2011!

So, last year was the first year in ten years of racing I didn't get a WORS Series standing and that was a little sad, but not a huge deal.

This year for the first time in about 7 years, I will not be wearing any team colors, as of now anyway.  The group in Illinois and Southern Wisconsin that I have been racing with for the last 4 years has disbanded for a multitude of reason.   Regardless, I am left without a team. 

So what does this mean really? 

Three things really, no team to hang out with at the races.  Not a big deal, after ten years of racing I know many many people and often just hang out with my old friends from the Green Bay team I use to race for.  Second, my racing points won't go towards any team points, not a big deal either.  Lastly and the one that is hurting my pocket book is the team discounts from vendors and bike shops.  I think I enjoyed those discounts more then I realized as I am looking at buying a new fork for the race bike at full price and some wheels at full price, I am starting to miss those connections.

Unattached means I am not attached to a team. You will see that next to my name more often this year on my race results, it doesn't mean that Aimee and I are having issues it simply means I won't be wearing any NASCAR looking kits while racing this year.

On my Blog this year I am just going to post the gear and vendors I really love even though they are not giving me any love. (Maybe someone will feel pity on me...doubt it) I ordered a racing kit that say "UNATTACHED" on it, which will be pretty funny at he WORS races.  Should be a fun and relaxed year.


PS I will be hunting ebay for all my discounts so maybe I will get an ebay patch for my racing kit.