2010 Racing Season
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Jeff Burmeister
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During my weekly discussions with my coach we’ve been trying to focus in on what the realities of the coming season will be for me and my potential training schedule. There are two real issues to address for the 2010 season. The first is the fact that during the 2009 season I lacked any type of focus in my training at all. I was racing fast and short track events and then I was running ultra-marathons, marathons, and half-marathons on the weekends. It’s pretty hard to develop competitiveness when you’re attempting to do two extremely different challenges at the same time. In fact I don’t think I could have picked two things that are further from the same focus than these two things. Oh well, I had fun and that is all that matters… Right?
The second challenge for 2010 is that my availability is going to be pretty limited. I’ll be a new father, we’ll be purchasing (and trying to sell) a home, I’ll be looking for a new job, Sheila is starting Graduate school, she’d like to continue with her part time weekend job and I’ll be officiating at Cycling events. Yeah, I’d say that we have a bit going on.
So we are faced with the fact that I won’t have nearly the time to train for this upcoming season that I’d need to be competitive. So we’re thinking one of the following paths for the 2010 season;
-Don’t race at all in 2010. I could spend what time I can find trying to keep in general shape and keep moving towards my goal of Master’s World Track Cycling Championships in 2015
- Only focus on one highly specific area of training for the whole season. Ideally one event such as the 4km Individual Pursuit or the Kilo event so that I don’t spend my time trying to develop long endurance which takes a lot of time and commitment.
- Turn off cycling completely and just take part in a few running events and maybe throw in another Triathlon or two to change it up a bit.
In the coming weeks I’ll need to sit down with my family and try to make a decision that will be the best for all of us. We’ll keep you all informed as to what will happen.
Until then, I have a very pregnant wife at home who is getting ready to pop, and I will get to be a new father! That by itself is way more important to me than any type of racing goal. But it’s nice to keep racing in the back of my mind.
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