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Ha! Good for you for getting out, Vash.

I started riding two weeks before the shut down. My riding was like clock work twice a week until we went off on vacation in Asia this summer. Rode only 7 times since we came back then the shut down started. I piled on the miles too soon on my first few rides and it hurt like hell. Crawled into the house, lie down for a short rest with my eyes shut for a bit on the floor. I woke up two hours later. I kept it up. By the second week, I force myself to do a tad over 200 miles that week. In the past two weeks, we added a climb on our daily 50-55 mile ride. Its a gnarly 3000' climb twice a week. I lost some valuable baby fat and got back into training. What I am training for, who the fk knows? I am not racing anymore. We do 50 miles in just over 2.5 hours. I have been sore almost daily for the past 5 weeks. Greg LeMond once said, "you get stronger, but you hurt jsut as much because you just go harder and longer". Man, he was right. Keep it up, you will get there soon. You are still young, but I do notice I am fried by the third day if I don't rest after two to three days of riding. recovery isn't what it once was when I was 22.