Over half way through May?

How did this happen? So much to do, so little time.

I managed to put in a pretty solid effort last week. Weekly total was 120 miles. My long ride was 40 miles on Saturday. Yearly totals are as follows: 325.30 miles; 20,927 ft of elevation gain.

I'm trying to stay below an increase of 20% per week as distance goes. I'm technically a week ahead of schedule on the long ride program posted below. At the recommendation of my beautiful and intelligent girlfriend, I'll probably take a week on the easy side, maybe the first week in June if I still have no knee pain then, and then be back on correcting timing for the long ride schedule.

This week I'll stay under 140-ish miles. I have a 50 mile ride next weekend, so I'll probably do a 30 mile ride after work tomorrow and ride into work twice.

I'm coming to think that general schedule, about 90 miles during the work week plus whatever the long ride calls for on the weekend, is about right in terms of training as well as leaving time during the week for my other endeavors (gardening, yard work, housework and fund raising of course).

Speaking of which, now that I've got this website all straightened around and working, expect to see some email from me shortly. Not long after that I'll be sending out the annual letter and fund raising request. As with last year, there will be some tokens of appreciation if you give a certain amount. Those will be announced in the letter.

So far it's looking like a good year in terms of training, weather and my own health (knocks lots of wood). We'll pray it stays that way.