At a certain point in the building process you hit that "wall" where the workouts continue getting harder and despite all signs pointing towards you being able to hit those numbers... your body just decides it doesn't give a shit about reason or science and it just goes stubborn mode on you. At that point your mind starts to enter into that "oh no, we suck again!" thought process and everything just snowballs into a trap of self loathing. Or is that just me?
Regardless, I've missed a couple of workouts last week (as in, missed goals, not missed doing them) and I'm hoping it's just my body getting used to upped intensity/volume. It's a scary thing for me specifically because missing targets reminds me of overtraining, although this is certainly nothing so dramatic. Hopefully a day off on Monday kickstarted me back on track and ready to get some work done on target again!
For those of you not following the Giro... spoilers ahead.
Things certainly aren't as we had planned. Yet another incident with a motorbike has really shaken up the GC, and now after the time trial we see that there is some serious damage done. It's definitely too early still to make any bold claims, but I find myself thinking maybe Tom Dumoulin isn't the outside shot winner after all. He has certainly put himself in a good position after Monday's TT... if he can just hold it together the next couple of big climbs it's hard to see much way for even some of the truly gifted climbers to eat away the advantages he can stack up in the time trials. Certainly the way he rode his own pace under Quintana's attacks on Sunday and limited his losses looked promising. Thomas also had a great time trial, almost good enough to slip back into the top 10 overall... it would still take a lot to get him back towards the podium, but if any team has the raw power to do it it's certainly SKY.
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Thanks so much for reading, I really appreciate it!
- Christopher Morelock
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