Reality Check: 8 weeks behind!!!

No need to get carried away, not even after a good training week. My trainer Filippe just informed me that I'm a massive 8 weeks 'behind' schedule!!! Not so much due to the accident and the operations, but mostly because I started too late. I have been so pre-occupied with getting the project together, finding sponsors, writing, blogging and getting some media-attention. (which is quite a hassle, by the way: for every sponsor or magazine that surprises you with unexpected, spontaneous support, there are 3 who back out (often without any notice whatsoever) of made deals. Seems that a given word or even a written statement is often as flexible as a long distance non-drafting rule … ) that I lost my grip in terms of timing and planning. Filippe says my training should've started 2 months earlier... Anyway, can't be helped. It’s going to be a long hard summer, for sure, with a lot of work on the shelf. I’m looking forward to it.

Or rather: I started training 8 weeks too late...