It really does feel better even with all the lousy weather we've been getting. Between the weather and other time commitments, I've only managed to get in about 310 miles in the last month and over 100 of that was over this past week.

The avg HR is coming down, the peak HR is coming way down, hills are easier to climb, my cadence is coming back up to where I want it. Yeah, it feels much better.

It must show too.. The owner of my LBS is in his 60's. He's started off racing track bikes and he was showing me his latest ride.. A Colnago track bike with Zipp wheels (drool...).. After he finished bugging me about joining their Saturday/Sunday group ride ( I can't get up to meet them at 8am ... maybe later this year) he said "I've got just the bike for you" "But I just got the Roubaix a couple of months ago" "Oh, you'll like this one!"
and he rolls out an Argon 18 Krypton ... "And it's only $2400 !"

sigh.... not this year... uh .. maybe next season ?