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There is an old saying, "you should learn from mistakes, but they don't need to be your mistakes". Today I want to mention 5 things that I wish someone had told me when i was starting out cycling.
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“If you head out the door and you don't know why you're heading out the door or what that specific session is or you don't know how that session fits into the grander plan, you're a headless chicken.”
“If you're heading out the door and you're riding in zone three all the time, it's like heading out the door to play golf and only ever bringing a seven or seven or in which it. You need to learn how to play the full bag of clubs, that's what makes you complete.”
“A couple bracketing to that, dressing for the weather is known at what time it gets dark, knowing how dimly lit it's gonna be today, wearing appropriate colors for those type of days, of a jacket that's been rocking an orange one for the last while on the darker days. But that all starts on planning the night before.”
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