Make a Plan?
If you do an MBA you might experience being locked in a building and strapped to a chair for ~100 hours / week. Two things will likely result. #1 You’ll get smart, #2 You’ll get fat. I definitely gained weight and #1 is TBD.
So at the end of the year my girlfriend & I ran a half-marathon, and an XC running race in Victoria. Then Andre got me out riding mountain bikes again which is an all or nothing type of sport, so I dove back in. I set myself some ridiculous goals for the 2010 racing season and setup an obsessively detailed training plan:
The program is loosely based on The Cyclist’s Training Bible, which walks you through in painstaking detail how to organize, how to workout, and how to monitor & adjust your progress so that you achieve peak fitness in time for major races. Although the detail seems a bit over the top (the spreadsheet has 10 tabs), each workout has a purpose and moves you measurably closer to your goal. I’ve been following the plan for about 4 months and have cut about 43 seconds off my 5000m row & and am ~13% higher on average power output. My bike skills are still super sketchy.