Quote Originally Posted by hebe View Post
Can you take the initiative and put a plan together with him so that he can help organise things for you to get your training back up? Good luck. I think you can do this.
That's most likely what I'm going to have to do...say "I'm riding X miles on this day...you can join me or not." I think I need to accept that if I want to ride I simply need to get used to doing it on my own...at least until after the mountain bike race. But this has definitely colored my view on any future races of this sort. It simply takes him away for too much time. It would be bad enough if all of his training were from home, but each training ride is generally requiring 2 hours in the car (and frequently a stop post-ride for dinner with his friends), so that's 2-3 more hours that he's away.