Planning next season

Right now my training has been very light and by light I mean sort of heavy. I've been riding back and forth to the school I am student teaching at carrying a 20 to 25 lb backpack (depending on the day). I usually bring my laptop so I can write up plans on it during my prep period. However the total training time I've been doing has been low ... about 5 hours a week on the bike and a 4 to 5 hour hike on the weekend. Anyways I started to plan out the training for this next year and will start to work into more serious interval work in January.

Men's rankings

I just checked the men's category 1 (the top category) criterium rankings for CT riders 30 and up. I'm not sure how they do this as I barely raced and ...

1	12	3	Timothy Unkert	60363
2	10	1	Eneas Freyre	146736
3	4	2	Eric Brownell	144563
4	3	4	Anthony Alessio	146429
5	0	1	Lane Rodgers	47112
5	0	5	Stephen Badger	62085

Didn't race much this year ...

Well to anyone reading this who is a racer it was obvious that I didn't get many racing miles in this year. However next year I plan to do a lot of criteriums. Probably not a lot of road races though. It takes a lot of effort to train for 100 miles races, plus I like the speed and cornering of the criteriums more. This winter I'll probably spend a lot of time in the gym, getting jacked ... no seriously I'm doing most of my training now commuting back and forth to the place I'm student teaching at. The backpack which weighs 21 lbs makes this some considerable effort and in all seriousness I will spend a fair amount of time in the gym.