Oakley’s perspective: My Training Plan

Lately, I am exhausted and sore every night when I climb into bed. This is not because I am biking all the time, but it is because I am always very active.

I spend many hours a day practicing new flips, cheap gainers (a backflip while moving sideways), fulls (a spin with a backflip), and double front flips. I try so hard and for so long that when I finally master a new trick I am pretty much dead the next day.

I have been surfing from 9 to 3 o’clock every day this week and my arms hurt from paddling to catch waves.

I have been training with The Sellam Circus School, which is a circus school in Biddeford, Maine. I unicycle, tumble, juggle and do Diablo. This weekend we are performing and teaching kids and adults how to do circus tricks at Thompson’s Point in Portland.

I run a lot every day and play nightly games of manhunt. Manhunt is like hide and go seek in the dark. We play until we have to come in.

I play the drums every day and have been involved in Steely Dan and Queen ensembles that have played at Cadenza, a venue in Freeport. This is exercise, trust me.

Last week I went on a sailing ship called the Harvey Gamage. I lifted 1,500 pounds of sail with a small group of people and hauled a 500 pound anchor from the ocean floor with four people.

And sometimes I bike. My parents make me bike to drum lessons, band practice, sometimes school and sometimes to beach for surfing. Every once in a while my mom makes me bike for fun with her.

So, you see, I might not bike a lot, but I think I am in good shape for biking across the country because I get a ton of exercise. There will be plenty of time for biking.

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