Added incentive for riding down to Mount Vernon?

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@PotomacCyclist 69408 wrote:

Disclaimer: Although I started this thread, I don’t drink hard liquor that often. Maybe a couple times a year. As I posted a few months ago, liquor and long workouts don’t seem to mix for me (more so with running and swimming than with cycling). Then again, I’m not doing many long workouts for now, until January.

So you’re planning to go on a hard liquor diet through the new year since you usually don’t log long workouts and drink liqour, but you’re not doing many more workouts for a few weeks? It’s probably a wise way to avoid the unnecessary alcoholic calories and still get the punch.

[PotomacCyclist]

I’m not doing many bike or run workouts this month. (I probably shouldn’t admit that on this forum…) I’m focusing on strength training for a couple months. Partly because it’s one of my weaker points (even though I do some functional strength work for much of the year). Partly because of the change of pace. Partly because it feels good to build up more strength but not bulk.

I can go a little harder with the strength exercises now, since I don’t have to worry that the lingering fatigue will mess up other workouts that week. (Because there are no other planned workouts, except maybe swimming. I’ll still bike or run when I feel like it, but I don’t have workouts planned ahead for the next month or so.)

I’ve started incorporating kettlebells. I’ve tried them out a few times before, but I’ve never been serious about them. So far, so good. I’m also doing bodyweight exercises (pull-ups, staggered push-ups, decline push-ups, dips, bodyweight rows) and some freeweight exercises (dumbbells mostly). No machines.

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