no excuses
after 2012 nationals i thought about my season and made goals for this season. for a lot of the year last season, i allowed myself to make excuses when the opportunity arose to go for it. whether it was training or racing, i made a lot of compromises and as a result wasn't able to (in my opinion) reach my potential. i'm very happy so far this year with showing up to the races and not making compromises. there are people i'm probably never going to beat when we are having our best days but 6 races into the cx season i can look at each and feel like i've ridden as fast as i could on each of those days. i cannot do more than that i guess!
the weekend was as wet as anticipated. luckily, dane county does not get scared away by a little mud and there were relatively early assurances that the race was on. woke up to rain, at time driving, on sunday and i was mentally ready for a mudfest. i chose to warm up in our garage rather than in the elements and that was my first good decision of the day. i left just enough time to get over there, register and do a few up tempo efforts on the park road. before i could really think about the task at hand the whistle blew and it was go time. i got a decent start, 5 (or so) wheel into the muck. i stayed upright through the first lap just trying to find my bearings on the muddy track. lap 2 started and i went to work. i managed to reel in maciej and just focused on riding "clean" lines, keeping the power steady and leveraging my advantages in the running sections (which were rather substantial). i finished a solid third behind a flying joe curtes and chris newlin. i'm very happy with that result.
we went for some coffee and then i got to washing the bike. i didn't want to but it made the most sense while it was still wet. started a load of very dirty laundry and finally a hot shower which felt like a dream. the rest of the night was spent relaxing (with a little more bike clean up mixed in).
i rode in this morning and it always amazes me just how fast the sun angle changes this time of the year. i've said it several times on here already this fall, but since i last rode in to work last thursday the sun angle was completely different.
happy monday.
the weekend was as wet as anticipated. luckily, dane county does not get scared away by a little mud and there were relatively early assurances that the race was on. woke up to rain, at time driving, on sunday and i was mentally ready for a mudfest. i chose to warm up in our garage rather than in the elements and that was my first good decision of the day. i left just enough time to get over there, register and do a few up tempo efforts on the park road. before i could really think about the task at hand the whistle blew and it was go time. i got a decent start, 5 (or so) wheel into the muck. i stayed upright through the first lap just trying to find my bearings on the muddy track. lap 2 started and i went to work. i managed to reel in maciej and just focused on riding "clean" lines, keeping the power steady and leveraging my advantages in the running sections (which were rather substantial). i finished a solid third behind a flying joe curtes and chris newlin. i'm very happy with that result.
we went for some coffee and then i got to washing the bike. i didn't want to but it made the most sense while it was still wet. started a load of very dirty laundry and finally a hot shower which felt like a dream. the rest of the night was spent relaxing (with a little more bike clean up mixed in).
i rode in this morning and it always amazes me just how fast the sun angle changes this time of the year. i've said it several times on here already this fall, but since i last rode in to work last thursday the sun angle was completely different.
happy monday.
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