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For as long as I've been trying to race a bicycle, I've noticed (sometimes the hard way) that it is difficult to maintain peak form for a full season.  Typically there must be some break in the action to allow your body to recover and get ready for more racing to come.  The problem is it's very hard to take a break when you feel like you are at your fastest! This season I made a goal of hitting the first Norba race in May as a peak (it worked, 3rd place!) and then taking a break to ramp back up for the big races in July.  But by the time it all happened I didn't want to slow down so I kept training hard and aiming for more races.  Then it happened: the mid-season lull.  My legs just felt dead, my focus drifted away, and I found my mental outlook declining.  The beginnings of this were evident at the Skyline race. When you are overtrained it is very difficult to recognize or remedy it.  Usually two or three days of rest should be fine to get going again.  But what about two or three weeks?  Well, that's what it has taken for my legs to get back their snap.  The good news is that I had planned to do this and I'm not missing any races (or racing and digging a deeper hole). Sure, I may have lost some of my top end, but it will come around quickly after one race.  Better yet I've regained my purpose, my focus, and my exhuberance about racing.  I'm so ready to rip up the rest of the season on dirt!!  (stay tuned...)