Originally Posted by botto

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.