Try Something New

I'm having a lot of fun with National Bike Month. Not only am I packing on the mileage and packing in the hours, but I'm using this month to reset my bicycle clock and get me back into the swing of things.

Last fall, I tried something new. I joined an impromptu cyclocross team call "The Red Jackets." I was very nervous about trying the unexpected. The thought of mounting and dismounting throughout a race and actually having to learn the proper technique for doing so plucked away at my confidence. After a fun cyclocross season, I realized that I learned skills and techniques that could translate into my mountain biking to make for faster races. I will continue to practice cyclocross throughout the summer to enhance my mountain biking skills and to prepare for the new cross season.

National Bike Month idea of the day: try something new today, like cyclocross.