Wind = Not my friend

Well, I woke up today at about 8am...should have been 7am, but oh well...I'm in Italy and I'm not complaining. I had a nice breakfast of yogurt, roll with jam, banana, some sweet cake thingy (trust me its amazing), and some OJ. God I love breakfast here. Sooo tasty. Well, I wish I could tell you I went on a ride right after that but no... I had class from 10am to 1pm, and then it was lunch at 1. So I fueled up on the turkey and broccoli covered in Olive oil...thank god olive oil is good for you. After finishing lunch I made sure that the food digested and I got out to ride at 2pm.

Today was a good hard day, not because I went hard, but because of the wind. The wind was constantly 25mph with gusts of 35mph...always fun. Other than that everything else was great. There was a little cloud cover and it was 57 degrees out. Perfect! I love warm weather. I did the Barberino di Mugello route today. I'm definitely getter faster and stronger on this route. The climb doesn't tire me out like it did the first couple of times. I actually shed 5 min off of my time on the route...part of it was the wind being to my back on the way home...but even then I kept a constant 38-40mph for 9km. I got back at about 4:15pm (I decided to go just a little bit longer to make sure for a cool down and I didn't want to get back so early.

Since I'm kind of a weight freak I bought a scale today to make sure I maintain that weight thing. I still have a month to lose about 10 pounds before the first race, so its all good. I'll definitely become more of a climber after living here for 5 months. My cadence has even changed...I have a lot higher cadence now. Yeah, it use to be the Jan Ullrich grind of about 60 all the time (I enjoyed that cadence), but now I have a cadence of around 80-100 all the time, which I know is more effective and actually makes you more powerful...but I'm not gonna lie, I'll miss that old cadence of mine.

Tomorrow I plan on riding about 4-5 hours for some good base miles. I'll be riding with the Sesto cycling team tomorrow also, so I'll learn a new route. Hottness! Then later this week I'll be going to the doctor for a stress test so I can get my Italian cycling license and then I'll join the team. It'll be good. I'll learn some new cycling terms in Italian and see how they train and how they do things differently. I'll try to put up some pics for next time or atleast sometime soon. Happy riding....