Cycling Maven Site Update

Miss me? Of course you did! It’s just nice to hear it so thanks.

Well I’ve moved into my new bach­el­ors pad in Mel­bourne right near our fam­ous cyc­ling trail Beach Road.

When you run a blog, life’s tuff without an inter­net con­nec­tion. Scoot­ing off to the lib­rary and friends houses to access the inter­webs teaches you to appre­ci­ate that big fat tun­nel called broad­band that I so took for gran­ted at my last home.

I also have a tend­ency to over commit.

Being in tune with one’s flaws is a path less trav­elled. Although I don’t have many, I have a pretty good handle on the few that I do and they’re reg­u­lar remind­ers to form bet­ter habits.

Jug­gling many balls is one of those flaws and unfor­tu­nately, I’ve decided that I don’t like being the clown.

Whats on the plate

So, I offi­cially star­ted the nine week intens­ive med­ical train­ing course for my day job on Monday.

I won’t bore you with the gory details — but we’re talk­ing a min­imum of 12 hours of study per day over the next four weeks and then five weeks in New York where it’ll step up a few notches and I’ll pretty much get no sleep at all.

Col­leagues who’ve done the course say it’s the hard­est thing they’ve ever done. Oth­ers describe it as med­ical boot camp and one guy, said it was nine weeks of sol­it­ary con­fine­ment from the world. Nine weeks erased from his life.

And that’s just the ones who made it through the course. There’s plenty who dis­ap­pear at lunch time or morn­ing tea, never to be seen again.

Nine weeks of cyc­ling down-time

If you’re going to do some­thing – do it well. To be suc­cess­ful in requires a high level of com­mit­ment and focus.

With that in mind, I’ve decided that my reg­u­lar Tues­day and Fri­day post­ing com­mit­ments need to be post­poned for the next nine weeks whilst I focus on study commitments.

I’ll post irreg­u­larly and when I can.

On Monday 24^th May 2010, pro­gram­ming will resume as nor­mal just in time for the big Grand Tours. I’ll be look­ing for­ward to doing a run­ning com­ment­ary on exactly what is hap­pen­ing and we’ll dis­cuss some of the tac­tics being adopted.

Until then, safe riding.

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