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About a month has passed since I was hitting training numbers I hadn't seen in years. I knew it couldn't last, so I stopped.    When I got home, I didn't get on my bike. Yeah, the rain and 40F temperatures could have had something to do with it. The purchase of an expensive RV and the modifications it required might have had something to do with it as well. Spending time with my family and dog probably accounted for some of that, too.    But yeah, I slammed on the brakes pretty hard.     Other than a couple Sunday rides at the Dome, I didn't touch my bikes for two weeks.    When I left for my current trip, it took me a week to get back in the swing of things. My legs no longer responded as they had, and they still aren't all the way back- which is perfectly fine. It's the middle of the winter and I'm on the northwest tip of Alaska.There's nothing here to "peak" for. My only goal is to not gain too much more weight and try to sustain som