ho hey!
well now, that was a nice (long) weekend if not a little hectic. friday morning started early with some dog vomit and a brief trainer session. friday night went about as planned, cal and i made the trip north and he fell asleep about a 1/2 hour from our destination. that rendered him out of it when we got there which was a) funny and b) difficult to get his sleeping quarters set up. but, it all got done and after visiting a little with my mom it was off to bed.
saturday morning i headed north on hwy 53 and then west on hwy 8. along the way i say a bald eagle sitting on the side of the road and a black bear with two relatively large cubs by a pond. i don't see that very often on the way to cx races in the south! got my numbers and my new twin six skinsuit - as usual, the time before the race went quick and before i knew it, it was time to go. i got a front row call up which proved handy (the field was 60+ strong, around 80 including the pro/1/2/3 women who went 2 minutes before us). i got out 4th or 5th wheel, just trying to scope out the competition and keeping in mind that i had another race after this one. i moved up to second wheel to finish out the first lap and then another guy came around both of us, did some weird sketchy stuff, then 'sat up' and was looking around like we were supposed to do some work. all he accomplished was slowing us down and letting the next group bridge back up. frustrated, i attacked and it was game over. i led the rest of the race and finished with a nice win! i caught the entire womens' field to boot so i felt pretty good about that but in doing so probably burned a few too many matches.
anyway, i had about 30 minutes to swap my number, get some water and take a gel. the problem was that i completely spaced the gel part - i was kind of in la-la land and that carried through the first 20 minutes of the race. terrible start, terrible first few laps - i really wasn't racing just riding. i snapped out of it and committed myself to getting a good hard effort. with about 15 minutes to go the announcer said i was the last podium spot in the 35+ 1/2/3 but i got caught with 1.5 laps to go. just didn't have the power and he came by me flying. i'll take a 4th place in race two for sure (12th in the entire pro/1/2/3 field).
hightailed it to minneapolis, got a quick shower and then we were off to dinner with some dear friends from our marshfield days. it was a very nice but long night - back to the hotel at 2 am! slow but sure we got packed up and heading to see some other dear friends pat and katie (and charlotte of course). after a little navigational difficulty, we got there and walked to a restaurant on the tc marathon course to watch one of robin's colleagues pass at around 18 miles. capped off our msp tour with a stop at ikea to pick up some shelves for the basement. back to EC for dinner and then home yesterday.
i got out for a 6 mile run last night and felt pretty good. rode in this morning - i'm going to get wet this afternoon.
training for last week:
m: 0:35 (run)
t: 2:00 (commute/add on)
w: 1:00 (commute)
r: 0
f: 0:50 (trainer)
s: 2:15 (warm up/two races)
n: 0
total: 7:40
happy tuesday.
saturday morning i headed north on hwy 53 and then west on hwy 8. along the way i say a bald eagle sitting on the side of the road and a black bear with two relatively large cubs by a pond. i don't see that very often on the way to cx races in the south! got my numbers and my new twin six skinsuit - as usual, the time before the race went quick and before i knew it, it was time to go. i got a front row call up which proved handy (the field was 60+ strong, around 80 including the pro/1/2/3 women who went 2 minutes before us). i got out 4th or 5th wheel, just trying to scope out the competition and keeping in mind that i had another race after this one. i moved up to second wheel to finish out the first lap and then another guy came around both of us, did some weird sketchy stuff, then 'sat up' and was looking around like we were supposed to do some work. all he accomplished was slowing us down and letting the next group bridge back up. frustrated, i attacked and it was game over. i led the rest of the race and finished with a nice win! i caught the entire womens' field to boot so i felt pretty good about that but in doing so probably burned a few too many matches.
anyway, i had about 30 minutes to swap my number, get some water and take a gel. the problem was that i completely spaced the gel part - i was kind of in la-la land and that carried through the first 20 minutes of the race. terrible start, terrible first few laps - i really wasn't racing just riding. i snapped out of it and committed myself to getting a good hard effort. with about 15 minutes to go the announcer said i was the last podium spot in the 35+ 1/2/3 but i got caught with 1.5 laps to go. just didn't have the power and he came by me flying. i'll take a 4th place in race two for sure (12th in the entire pro/1/2/3 field).
hightailed it to minneapolis, got a quick shower and then we were off to dinner with some dear friends from our marshfield days. it was a very nice but long night - back to the hotel at 2 am! slow but sure we got packed up and heading to see some other dear friends pat and katie (and charlotte of course). after a little navigational difficulty, we got there and walked to a restaurant on the tc marathon course to watch one of robin's colleagues pass at around 18 miles. capped off our msp tour with a stop at ikea to pick up some shelves for the basement. back to EC for dinner and then home yesterday.
i got out for a 6 mile run last night and felt pretty good. rode in this morning - i'm going to get wet this afternoon.
training for last week:
m: 0:35 (run)
t: 2:00 (commute/add on)
w: 1:00 (commute)
r: 0
f: 0:50 (trainer)
s: 2:15 (warm up/two races)
n: 0
total: 7:40
happy tuesday.
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