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Nice. I was riding a lot of dirt last year. I'm now focused on climbing so it's mostly road again but now I've got my new dropper and the MTB is out and about I should actually ride the bloody thing.
Re: work I ditch riding to focus on work if it's worthwhile. A new role probably is so maybe sink some time into that now, while you're recovering from the year. For me, if it's dumb shit, I'll focus more on riding and just do the work around it. You still gotta pay the bills though, right? I normally move into new position and smash it for a bit to make myself lookr awesome then back off and hand bits over once they're sorted and look at other stuff. Kinda depends what your employer expects of you. I'm technical so not responsible for shit. If it breaks it was like that when I found it... :D
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I did a big dirt ride yesterday, my skills off road are lacking so it's good to build this. I definitely lose speed off road compared to more experienced riders, this was apparent when i did Further East. The only issue is that swapping from road and off road on one bike takes a lot of bike maintenance...
The job thing is a lot of stress as i have a lot of responsibility now (i didn't say it for a boast but more of the tiredness of what's it has created)
@frank9755 I've got the transpyrenees in June which will be fun, a lot of climbing and big days in the saddle. It's 15 weeks away but I was able to up my volume over the last 2 weeks e.g around 15hours. I did a 10.5hour ride yesterday which was extremely fun
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I've got a decent ride planned this Saturday, a bit of an off road thing on 33mm tyres so lets see how hard it is. Essentially I need to stop feeling guilty about not training and find a rhythm with riding again as I still really enjoy it. I do beat myself up for not riding which is something I'm dealing with internally.
On the last week of this challenge, I got a big promotion at work which has taken a while to adjust to as it's very senior and I've now got a lot of responsibility