Spring Motivation - Pecha Kucha - Coaching Biz

I've been working on finding and making time during the day to ride and get my endorphins going during the daylight hours in order to get the brain and body moving on the same horizontal line so to speak.

My weekends have been full of longer rides with the team or groups of people from 3 to 4 hours. Some of them have been painful, in a good way and others have been painful, like last Sunday, in not such a good way. Sometimes, there are those moments where you feel so good so strong, you need to get up front and pull into the wind for several miles just to feel the good pain in your legs, back and quads. Other times, you dig and dig till there is no more fuel in the tank to keep you going.THIS is spring training. Finding that balance point of pain  and suffering. Remembering the feelings of fitness and being fit, those moments of standing up and climbing with no concern for how much your legs hurt, because they don't.
---This week I got back on the training wagon and am hoping to get back my riding legs and my lungs and a quicker recovery time.

Other news: I presented at the local Columbus Pecha Kucha chapter 5th Anniversary event last week at our Museum of Art. It was a big deal (at least for me) and a tough challenge to find 20 interesting slides, the right photos and the right words (script) and text to bring it all together. I think over 1000 people showed up to celebrate this unique way of presenting your passion. With cycling on the brain, I put this together with the idea of where cycling has taken me in MY life, and where it can take YOU.



Hopefully the presentation, will inspire you to get out on your bicycle in some shape or form.


Lastly, I started a cycling coaching business of my own. I've been thinking about this for over a year, the BWE has been harassing me and so have a few other people that know me well. With encouragement and information from a few key people, I have taken on the challenge. My good friend, developed a logo for my coaching biz and I now have business cards and a nice marketing type flyer. Hopefully a small website is around the corner. I have a few athletes already and hope others will soon jump on board, so I can help them achieve their goals. My cyclocross racing, endurance mountain biking background, and road racing all provide insight into what it takes mentally and physically. Let me know if you have an interest, we can talk.