Tomorrow is the Elephant Rock metric century ride that I signed up for with my dad. This will be the second year in a row that we’ve ridden the 62-mile course together, and while I am looking forward to it, I am feeling some other emotions as well.
In short? I’m terrified!
You see, I haven’t been doing a whole lot of training on my roadie. And when I say that I haven’t been doing a lot of training, I mean that I haven’t actually been on my road bike since last August. This, my friends, is what we call A PROBLEM!
62 miles is a lot when I have a long training ride of 20 minutes! Luckily, cycling has always come naturally to me and I am really hoping that I can rely on muscle memory in order to complete this tour. I mean, I spent 4 months riding my bike every single day….will my legs just jump right back into the mix?
My other redeeming thought is that it’s not like I haven’t been working out at all. I’ve been doing a lot of running and hiking and occasional CrossFit workouts, so I feel like my cardio and muscle endurance should be okay. I guess we’ll just consider Elephant Rock a science experiment where I determine whether cross training is really effective?!