Today I was going through the pictures my wife took this last year and man the bug hit me a little bit tonight. Something I have identified myself as for the past 3 years is something I have distanced myself from for the past 3 months. I just got burnt out from the whole racing scene.
3 months ago I made the decision to just quit racing inorder to get myself making money again. I now sell a nitch product in life insurance and becoming successful at it. The thing about this new job is it has required me to put a ton of time and energy into it. Not a ton of time like every waking moment I am working but has taken the mental focus I had reserved towards cycling. To divide that attention into two things is a challenge for me that i really do not want to divide. The time I am not working I am not wanting to throw my leg over the top tube.
Why is everything different. Well my results in my new chosen career is determined by my own efforts that I put into it. Not like a dead end job were I work so hard just to stay a desk jockey for the end of my days. I just know I was not going to go anywhere in the career path I was taking. This new one allows me to make as much money as I want by my own efforts.
This past year I was finding myself bitching a lot and not enjoying what I was doing on the bike. Showing up for some many crits just for it to end in a 50 person field sprint. I am not strong enough to break away, I sure tried. All that hard work over the winter last year just to be a mid pack rider this past year just was not very appealling to me. Why am I putting in so much work for mid pack finishes, when I can put that effort and concentration into results that count. Those results I am getting is I am now making money.
Am I racing next year? Right now I do not think I am going to. Do I miss racing, today was the first day when I got a hint of the bug. I just do not want to sabatoge my progress in my job. I actually work for myself so I am accountable for my own actions. I am doing well, but want to do better. My first month couple months I wrote 8,000 in business and this last month I did 16000. I want to do 20 this next month. If I can get the numbers that means I will be making close to 10,000 a month for being a newbie is awesome. That energy is basically garnering better results than that 13th place I got in a cat 3 race.
Who knows, I will probably still do a couple races next year. If not the year after. I think I might just go away from racing for a year. Lets see whats going on in my head in december. I can not get fat again. Plus I am running membership for ABRT so I am not staying away from the scene. I think the scene just does not make sense for me right now. Cycling takes a lot of time even though your doing basement workouts. Racing takes hours because of travel and warm up. I just can not afford that right now.
Not to be a debby downer. Things are going good for me professionally right now and that counts for a lot.
See ya around,
Kyle
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Putting in the work...
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Church Creek TT
I had the most fun I have ever had at a TT. I think it was because I did not do the damn thing. After 2 weeks of not really riding I did the dville group ride and saw that my inactivity left my heart rate screaming. Plus the heat just drains my power.
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Friday, August 7, 2009
The New Career So far...


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Game Over...
As of right now I feel my cycling season is over. Not that I am not felling fast, it is that mentally I think I am done. I still love riding my bike but for some reason I am starting to get the itch to hang up racing right now and just ride on whims.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Blah blah blah blah.
Well last week I decided to grow a little pair of balls and start mixing it up in the final action greenbelt. Says I placed 6th but I could have sworn it was 5th. Does not really matter since it was a training race. I have come to the conclusion to my inability to place well in 3's races is all in my head. I am a big f-ing pussy. I mean why don't I finish high when a bunch of guys who keep telling me that I raced strong and I was hurting them, yet yield a result of 20th. WTF 20th. I honestly would be happy placing right now, period. Not winning but just placing would do wonders. I think I have hit the point in the season where I am actually more focused on doing so.
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Back on the bike this week.
I took a rest week last week after 4 weeks of riding pretty hard consistently. Boy did I need it. Not for my body but more for my own sanity. I am a guy that just needs to step away from the bike every so often. I even said fuck somewhat good eating I have been doing. I went out to dunkin donuts and ate 10 donuts in two days and finished off a carton of ice cream the next two days after that. Boy did I need to do that. Get it out of my system. After the rest week I ballooned up to 200 pounds from 190. I did not care.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Fat Man Power
Reston 3/4 power file:
For those of you who want to know what my weight is, it is 190 as of right now. Here is my file. I did the majority of work in the beginning of the race. It had a 5 minute power of 343 and a 10 minute power of 334. So the first 10 minutes of the race were the hottest according to my power file. I worked hard in the first minute to get my ass up to the top 10-15. Everylap I hit about 570 as a peak on the uphill, and some laps it was more because I wanted to move up or somebody slammed on their brakes causing me to slow and have to accelerate harder than I wanted. My NP was 328 for the race.
Looking at this power file it was an average race as some others I have done this year. I noticed a lot of times in both the 3/4 and 1,2,3 that there were plenty of times to rest. Last year my HR was near 185 the whole time this year it was almost 10 beats lower. Why? I think I am fitter and was playing it way more conservative than last by sitting in. Last year I was on the front half the time this year I was on or off of it 3 times.
My peak power of 941 for 5 seconds is weak on this graph. But I had no chance of sprinting since I got caught in that wreck. I have been in some races especially 1,2,3 races where I hit 1100 in the first 5 minutes and settled down to a pace of 350 average for the rest of the 5 minutes. That hurts.
Greenbelt this week I hit 1054(5 sec) in the middle of the uphill in the first 20 minutes holding evan faders wheel. And I had 700 watt(and above) spikes 19 times during greenbelt. Ughh. That gets to me after a while. I wonder why I can not hold on the very last lap on the uphill. I am no sprinter but can pound out 700 bursts for some reason. Wish it would translate to results.
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
WTFM: Reston 09
Coming into this race I really wanted to place in the top 10. For some reason this year it has been really elusive for me to do so. Why was it my first year racing I could place in the top ten easier than it is now. I am more knowledgeable and stronger than I have ever been but to place is hard. It is a question I am asking all the time. Why is it hard to crack the top 20 for that matter. So today I really wanted to fucking break the cycle.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Wounded Warrior
Hey Y'all,
gear.)
*- *A weather radio valued at $100. (Know when to bring your rain cape.)
- $50 worth of car washes. (Keep the team car looking pro.)
- 5 pairs of GamJams socks. (Look like Dave Fuentes *
http://tinyurl.com/n5zl5u )
*- Lots of restaurant gift cards including a $50 gift card to Clyde's.
(Kyle, it's food, I expect lots of entries from you.)
- Multiple free massage and personal training sessions. (Kyle, it's not
that kind of massage.)
- Lowe's and Willams Sonoma gift cards -- $50 each. (Buy the spouse
something as amends for all your time spent training/racing.)
- And more ...
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Offensive Friday
Well MJ kicked the bucket. Here is a video that I will best remember him by:
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