Season stats

Being a numbers guy myself, I compiled a few numbers from this season that I thought you guys might like to see. If I am leaving something out that you would like to know, comment below and I will add it in!

Racing category: Elite 2
Number of races this year: 12
Number of pro contracts offered: Obviously a lot! (zero)
Road bike crashes: 1
Mountain bike crashes: too many to count
Number broken bones: 1
Number of stitches: 3
Mileage for the year: ~ 11 000km + over 100hrs on a spin bike
Longest training week duration: 19 hours
Shortest: Zero (does that even count then?)
Number of wins: Zero (if we don’t include club events)
Number of international/out of province races: 1, Tour of Catskills
Favourite shoes: Sidi Wire
Favourite colour combo: Black + Fluoro Yellow
Current race machine: Scott Foil
Favourite groupset: Sram red, sram’s shifting mechanism is definitely superior.
Average calories consumed/day: 3500-4000
Racing weight: 165 lbs (75 kg)
Height (for comparision): 6’2
Top 20min power according to garmin: 347 Watts (4.6W/kg)
Last years 20min: 322W

Other figures:
1 - Honours Bachelor of Science earned in Medical Physics
1 000 000 - Approximate number of calories consumed this year from brownies alone (may be inflated)
1 - Carbon wheel cracked in 2 places (damn Catskills!)
1 - Fingernail ripped off
500- Hours spent watching Netflix while recovering


**Adding to this, a cool feature a friend found for those that upload their rides to strava. A heat map for all your rides. Helps you see that you really don't ride that many different roads unfortunately. Here is my heat map for my last 100 rides! Check yours here. Note it takes a little bit to compile.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hopefully everyone was able to enjoy the nice weather that came with this long weekend. It is great time to look upon your life and be grateful for what you have in your life and what you have accomplished. Also it is a great time to show your appreciation to all of those in your life that have helped shaped your world into what it is today. I am definitely grateful for all my friends and family that have been there to support my cycling. They put up with my long training hours, not-so late nights out and busy weekends racing and still find time to hang out with me like a normal person. Without them I would probably become a zombie with no social life. I am also grateful for my coach Jeff Kehler for helping develop my skills over the past three years. I have grown past what I thought I could personally accomplished and because of this he has helped me aim my goals even higher than I started out with. And I think my mom deserves a special shoutout because she does so, so much for me. There is probably a lot of other people that I should thank, but people might get bored reading through and I don't want to upset any one by having a list and leaving out an important person or two. If you have touched my life and helped make a difference or pushed me in anyway then you are definitely on the list of people that I am grateful to have in my life. Without you guys I would never get to improve and become a better person and athlete.

Injury update: One more person I am very grateful for is Richard Bartolo for putting up with my shitty circumstances in the states with my crash. He could easily have left me there at the hospital and told me to get my parents to get me. But he stuck around and made sure I was as good as I could be!
On that note, everything is healing pretty good. Getting some neck pain I think from increased volume and trying to hold my head up in an aggressive position. I have attached some pictures of some of the scarring. Started a regimen of bio-oil to see if it helps clear it up. Has anyone else tried it with any results?
I posted weekend-of pictures in a previous post you can compare to if you wish.

elbow marked up

two puncture spots in my shoulder (from rocks maybe?) and remnants from the road rash. 

knee with its few deep gashes all filled in

Knuckle is all filled in and finger nail is half way back!

Thanks for stopping in, and make sure you take time to appreciate what you have, and show the people close to you that you do appreciate their efforts!