Great day of training yesterday. Pushed myself hard on the weights and felt strong. My deadlifts felt really good and I really concentrated hard on my form. Had a couple good sets of weight chins, 45x3, and my side presses were strong doing all but one set with the 55lb DB. Overall felt good and really had a lot of energy yesterday.

I did cheat a bit yesterday nutrition wise. I had a half of an oatmeal raisin cookie while at work. I made them from scratch, nice and fresh and I just couldn't resist eating some of one. Other than that I stuck to my plan completely. Weighed in at 188.8 yesterday morning.

Today's training was brutal. As I said a couple of posts before I am doing all of my intervals standing up which I did today. To begin with my glutes and hams were quite sore from yesterday, and my quads were just damn tired. I pushed hard and felt ongodly agony in my legs. Another 6 weeks of this before riding starts I feeling like I should be a monster on the bike. Although my legs were tired I still pushed hard, and was able to get my heart rate up into the 180s. During the intervals which are lasting a minute I'm peaking my wattage according to the bike just into the start of the interval at around 550 watts, and by the end I am in the 400-425 range. Not sure how accurate the bike is, and whether that is good wattage or not. As I know I have to go for a minute I am pacing myself a bit, and I think if I was just looking solely to get my max power I could put down somewhere in the 800-900 watt range, judging by the power I'm putting forth in my intervals. Core work was solid today and I worked hard on that as well.

Nutrition was excellent today. I was up early, at least for me at 6:30 as I had some studying to do and I will be up late tonight because of an exam tomorrow. I snuck in a bag of pretzels out of the vending machine while at school because I was starving, so I tacked on an extra 180 calories there. Other than that I followed my diet to a T and kept my intake to about 2100 calories for the day. I'm feeling great and I weighed in at 187.8 this morning. A full pound lighter than yesterday. I body feels very flushed out, so I think I am getting to close to my actual bodyweight. That gives me only about 8lbs left to lose and I definitely think that will put me where I want to be, if not lower than I want to be. I've got 6 weeks of winter training left and I think I should be able to do it. Cheers.