Depressed

I have come to the conclusion that I can't race at the SW champs on Saturday and I am gutted!

I have been rethinking my strategy for the rest of the year and I have decided that I am going to take the rest of the month off to make sure that my ribs are fully healed and then go straight into heavy training for next season's regionals. I am also going to use it as a cheat month where I will drink fizzy drinks and eat crap to get it out of my system ready to eat better over the winter.

I also bought batteries for my scales today as the battery ran out last week and I haven't got around to buying a replacement until today.


Over the winter I am only going to commit to the Bristol winter series and maybe do a couple of deep south races at tracks I like and I will save as much money as possible until the end of the year.

I am just arranging to clear out my container to save me more money now that I only have one complete bike at the moment. I am trying to get some space cleared in my parent's garage to store the Yess and the ice frame for now until I need them and I will get the Dialled built up fully once my wheels and cranks arrive.

Over the winter I am going to ride flats to get used to them again and also to learn to peddle efficiently.

I am going to split my training  into 3 areas:

1. Bike Skills.
2. Fitness and conditioning.
3. Track skills.

Skills will be working on the base skills off of the track. This includes bunny hops, manuals, wheelies and sprints.

Conditioning will be basic physical conditioning so bodyweight exercises and stretching basically.

Track skills will be putting the training all together on the track. This will involve training as I have been all year with a mixture of full speed laps, pump laps and breaking the track down into parts to improve performance on each faze of the track. It will also include jumping which needs to be a big focus for the winter to get my jumping up to a level that I need it to be by the start of next season so that I am not having to slow down for that one big jump on most tracks that is the difference of me keeping up with the fast guys.

I have set myself the goal of jumping the second jump at bath by my birthday in January so I have October, November and December to get there.

I want to start to ride some different tracks as well over the winter as at the moment I am getting good on Bath and Bristol as I ride there a lot but I need to get used to other tracks too.

When I am on days I plan to start to try and go to Burnham on Tuesday and Thursdays as it is a really technical track and will help a lot in my progression and it also has a really big second jump on the first straight which I basically just hit and hold on at the moment but I need to jump to be competitive next year. They also have the fastest gate of all the local tracks which is a bonus and floodlights.

I then want to go to a different track each weekend although we are limited to the number of track as only a handful are actually open tracks. On a positive note I like all of the open tracks so it