After a January in which I failed to be as productive as I intended, I set some lofty goals for February. The most important to-do item was going to be consistent training — with a full load of hard cycling events on the calendar right already, and a longer-term goal of riding Paris-Brest-Paris, I needed to get consistent and stay that way. My office space needs overhauled and organized, which I’ve been neglecting horribly since we moved in here. And I wanted to get my PCAP cert done, too.
- Consistent Training
- Office Enhancements
- Finalize PCAP Prep
Consistent Training
My big deal this month was going to have to be consistent training — with a 200km brevet coming up at the end of April, I needed to be dialed-in on the training. And I was, thankfully. Only one missed workout, and that was a 30-minute recovery ride that I opted out of because I’ve been having some tendonitis in my right knee. That break was just what the doctor ordered, and I was able to successfully wrap up my low-volume Base 1 phase, and move into a mid-volume Base 2 phase. WIN.
Office Enhancements
The first step in this was making sure that every day I was working from home, and on each day of the weekend, I was making an ongoing effort to clean/minimize/organize. This helped a ton. I’m pretty satisfied with how things have shaken out. WIN.
Finalize PCAP Prep
This cratered. The training chewed up a large chunk of my time this month. I did get a bunch of studying done, and a decent syllabus pulled together, but other than that, ugh. FAIL.
Minor/Other Accomplishments
- Finished grinding through the audiobook version of Neal Stephenson’s The Confusion, a 34-and-a-half hour slog. I’ve never been able to get through the whole Baroque Cycle trilogy, and this is my last go of it.
- Tax guy. Taxes are always stressful for me, but I’m also completely squared-away.
Reading
Blockers
- Mom’s care has reared up again, and this month, her care team determined that she’s in need of a transfer to memory care. This isn’t immediate, but it did demand a good percentage of my attention this month.
- Training for the DAMN was massively time-consuming.
Lessons Learned
- There is no deeper hell than having to care for a parent with dementia.
