After some thought, I have a better understanding about what I want to do with this blog. I am going to outline a little more about what content I am going to have in this thing. Its going to be my training journal, and also a place someone else can find info on training. I do most of my research on the inter web thingy. I will try to post the links to the actual website, and give credit to original authors. When I research on the web, I generally take advice of someone who practices what they are preaching. If Todd Wells says he does this kind of training but a scientist says that’s wrong, I’m gonna believe Todd Wells over the scientist. That doesn’t mean I wont have scientific research papers referenced here, but I am gonna take a World Champions advice over a scientist. My experiment isn’t going to be completely scientific for obvious reasons. I don’t have control groups, and the research will not be applied over a wide range of subjects. It’s gonna be a bit subjective. Maybe really subjective. My overall goal is to be faster on a mountain bike. The overall goal is objective, sort of. My race placing is the true goal. This appears to be objective, but its not. On any given race the best races in the world can show up, or the worst. My placing should change accordingly. I will compare times from previous years, but weather and course changes could come into play. Obviously if I start winning with the same general group of guys, where I was a middle pack racer before, then I can call that an improvement. 
 
I like numbers and graphs. So I’m defiantly gonna have some charts and numbers in this blog. I’ll try to compare training rides and look at average speeds as an indicator. I’m gonna be posting heart rates (HR). I’m gonna be posting nutrition info, and weight info. I’ll probably do some posts on managing life while training. I plan on doing a post based on mental preparation and toughness. I work as an industrial mechanic, so I’ll do some articles on bike repair and maintenance. I might do some product reviews, although the budget is pretty tight (right now) so I can’t go out and buy a bunch of thingies and try each one and compare against each other. I will be including my opinion in here also, I don’t claim to be a reporter or news source or scientist or anything other than a guy who races mountain bikes and writes a blog. 
 
One more thing, I am not going to schedule posts to be published at any certain time interval. With training and family and kids and life in general I don’t want to hold to a certain schedule. I hope I don’t get to sporadic with my posts, but I also don’t want endless posts about my training that hasn’t changed in weeks.  There may be months at a time when training just doesn’t change much or there were not any significant events to write about. That’s about all I have to say about summarizing where I plan to take this. I hope you find this blog useful.