Taking time off the bike can really help not only rebuild some of the broken down muscles, but also helps you get motivated to start training again.

It's been about 10 days of training so far after the break, the first few days were hard, but with each day that passes I feel better and better. Things here in Costa Rica are also starting to fall into place, and I’m almost back to my old routine, you know wake up early, stretch, have breakfast, ride, lunch, shower, nap, snack, etc.... I am also starting to get 7-9 hours of sleep each night with is helping a lot in my recovery.

In the past 10 days I have done about 700kms on the bike, and gained about 45k feet in accumulate elevation gain. By now climbing feels normal, and I don't mind if the ride has 3k of elevation, or 10k is just more climbing but I don't mind it.

There is a 3-day road stage race going on this weekend, let's see how the body does as we start with an uphill time trail, then go into a 90km road race, then an 80km circuit race, check back next week for details.

Later!

MP