Originally Posted by
patentcad
It only took me 3 years/30K+ miles, but I do confess to getting addicted to high mileage riding and eschewing days off. That doesn't help.
pcaddy,
if you had trained smarter (i.e. cut the mileage, upped the intensity) and believed in yourself sooner, it would have only taken less than 3 months, not 3 years.
after not riding with any sort of regularity, i started again at the end of june, 2003. i was racing again less than 8 weeks later. i didn't get any results, but i did reasonably well. at least as well as one could when you're racing on a 2 1/2 pack a day habit.