MTBO Project update

The theme for last week in the 2013 MTBO Project was "steal without apology ."  My stealing was to read the new ski O handbook and lift a training idea.    I'm not sure I'd really call that stealing, but it was close enough to meet the theme for the week.

I set up a "batong" (see page 58 of the ski O' handbook).  Basically, a batong training combines riding around in a figure 8 with studying a map.  Each time you come to an intersection, you turn left/right or go straight while imagining that you're following a route on a map that you're looking at.

I set up my course in a parking lot near my house and found a MTBO sprint map from a race in the Czech Republic.  I rode around the course making turns "simulating" the turns I'd make doing the course. I rode at night, so I had a lamp to read the map and a lamp on my bike.  It felt like a useful exercise, particularly given that I don't have access to a lot of MTBO terrain nearby.  Given that I was just rolling around a parking lot, it felt surprisingly interesting.  Certainly if you have to kill some time biking around a small area, a batong training is a great way to make it interesting.

To make it better, I need to find a better place to set up the route.  Rougher ground would make the training more interesting.

This week's theme is " buy a notebook."  But it isn't really about buying something. It is about keeping lots of notes about ideas.  Coyle wrote:

What matters is that you write stuff down and reflect on it.  Results from today.  Ideas for tomorrow.  Goals for next week.  A notebook works like a map: It creates clarity.

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