Anton Aro: About having courage to ride slow.

Riding slow, and now in terms of personal ability, has been pretty hard for me. Now I feel that I have somewhat succeeded in accomodating riding slow in my training to create polarization into my training. One hell of sentence of pretty much nonsense, wasn't it? Surely though, I've been missing that in my training. I learnt it during my first training camp with my new team.

Many of you may have noticed that I changed teams during the off-season. I'm proud to be riding for Finnfalz-Rush Racing and Cyclo Vision from now on. The reasons behind that were multifaceted, but simply put – it just felt the time to make some changes. Major contribution was thanks to my target and the apparent switch of them. I, consciously or not, kind of faded with my track cycling aspirations and fell for road events (with the great exception of criterium racing). The exact targets are taking their form slowly but definitely

So, I spent nine glorious days in Alicante with my new team and wrapped a good block of training in the warm sunshine in amazing company. The blokes are known as Kalle, Saku, Henri and Teemu. Don't ask for kilometres ridden, as that number is ridiculously low. If you want to ask for something, please ask for hours or vertical meters – that doesn't require exaggeration or an endless flow of explanations from me. And besides I told you, that I tried to ride slowly, eh? And hence the preference for counting hours rather than distance. Ok, this was explanations already, but I believe I came to a rather unclear point of what we did. We rode a lot, climbed a lot and consumed a coffee a whole lot (which is not the point though). Quality training time just as planned. And now at home – quality recovery time.

This blog, as apparent, became one pretty messed up flow of thoughts. A sort of brainfart as some could easily call this. I'm happy, if you understood this all. And even more happy, if you enjoyed reading it all. Welcome to my world.

Some photos by the crew: