Learn new sports

CrossFit has a definition of fitness, called Fitness in 100 Words.

• Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat.
• Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast.
• Five or six days per week mix these ele- ments in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense.
• Regularly learn and play new sports.

This year, I’m going to try something I haven’t done before… racing bikes.  You say, “but Eric, don’t you do triathlons and duathlons and stuff?”  To that, I say, yeah, but it’s not really racing bikes.  You can’t draft, there’s no paceline or peloton, it’s you and your bike, an individual effort.  I want to try racing a road bike with other people around.  It looks fun (until someone crashes).

So on November 1, I’m going to do a Team Time Trial at the Tour de Gruene, with my buddy Rich (who has no blog… so I can’t link anything to him.  we’re working on that).  Lance rode this last year, and I think he’s coming back this year, so it’ll be awesome to see that.  I just hope we can maintain about 22mph average for the 27 mile distance… we’ll see!