yowsa
well, i've done 1/2 a mountain bike race. it started out with a 45 minute 'warm-up' with ron. i had my head down trying to keep up with him...i guess his was down too. we missed our turn to the race venue, ended up too long and having to drill it back to make the start time. i was shelled before the race even started.
so the race starts and i struggled a little to get myself into the pedals. i was geared wrong and before i knew it, i was spit out the back of the field after about a minute of racing. from there, i just tried to ride my own race. i started picking off a few racers, and i was happy with how i rode the single track. then, i just lost focus. i was hitting my pedals on stumps and i saved myself from going down 3 times in a 1 minute span. it occurred to me that if i kept going, i just might hurt myself...so i did what would have been unthinkable 4 years ago. i bagged the race. i feel like a big quitter, but it was the right decision. i still rode hard for 1:45 (including the afore mentioned 'warm up,' and it was a good training week. and hell, i've only been training for 2 weeks...so this should get better.
i should have done the sport race this weekend, and i shouldn't have ridden 2.5 hours on saturday...but hindsite is 20/20. it should be better at wausau, two more weeks of consistant training should allow me to at least finish the comp race.
last weeks training totals: 10 hours (4.5 on the mountain bike).
i'm going to take today off, ride tuesday through thursday, take friday off and go into saturday's time trial fresh and ready (novel).
happy monday.
so the race starts and i struggled a little to get myself into the pedals. i was geared wrong and before i knew it, i was spit out the back of the field after about a minute of racing. from there, i just tried to ride my own race. i started picking off a few racers, and i was happy with how i rode the single track. then, i just lost focus. i was hitting my pedals on stumps and i saved myself from going down 3 times in a 1 minute span. it occurred to me that if i kept going, i just might hurt myself...so i did what would have been unthinkable 4 years ago. i bagged the race. i feel like a big quitter, but it was the right decision. i still rode hard for 1:45 (including the afore mentioned 'warm up,' and it was a good training week. and hell, i've only been training for 2 weeks...so this should get better.
i should have done the sport race this weekend, and i shouldn't have ridden 2.5 hours on saturday...but hindsite is 20/20. it should be better at wausau, two more weeks of consistant training should allow me to at least finish the comp race.
last weeks training totals: 10 hours (4.5 on the mountain bike).
i'm going to take today off, ride tuesday through thursday, take friday off and go into saturday's time trial fresh and ready (novel).
happy monday.
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