solid but deficient
friday i had ridden in and hoped to ride home but work required a longish day and robin picked me up and we went to fish fry instead. saturday morning i headed towards brigham park for the blue mounds road race around 8am. i pushed the tempo a little hoping to make it a really solid day and i could tell that i just didn't have the legs i was hoping to have. got to the venue, registered and pinned on the number. got a little bit more warm up work in (and verified my lacking power) and it was go time. the last time i did this race it was a "controlled" start down to blue mounds trail which was sketchy as hell, this time they just cut the race loose and it felt much safer. i got to the front 10 of the field to stay out of trouble and try to get into a fast group into the first climb. well, when the road went up i had a difficult time. i managed to latch on with the second group and maintained that position for most of the first lap. on the last big climb of lap 1 a guy came around me, moved in front of me and then slowed down causing a gap between us and the field. i just didn't have the horsepower to latch back on (even with a pretty solid decent) and that was that. i put my head down and just tried to ride hard - towards the top of the first long climb on the second lap zak redding caught me and we were able to organized a little group that started sweeping up the cast offs from the second group on the road. i got dropped again on the climb as the first lap and rode (mostly) solo all the way up to the finish.
i spun a little and headed to drop off my chip/eat a cookie. i sat down to eat and when i got up i could barely stand up. both sides of my behind were very sore - not sure if it was my piroformi or what but i hurt. wasn't normal soreness but more like the sensation of bruising (this is how i remember feeling every year after the hater). i rode to mt horeb hoping it would disappate but it just seemed to get worse. i called robin and luckily she was able to pick me up (i rode down to hwy p).
yesterday i got out on my freshly minted single speed. this is something i vowed i would never do but gosh darn it after yesterday i'm not sure i'm every going back geared for the trail. quarry ridge is an absolute joy now with all the added single track, and riding single speed was so much fun. i felt so liberated to not have to think about gears - just run what you brung and i found myself focused more on my lines and carrying momentum. so much fun, i felt like a kid again on my old schwinn thrasher. i had only wanted to go for an easy short ride but i got lost in the experience and pushed pretty hard.
it was another solid summer weekend. another monday of feeling very tired and groggy but for good reason. i drove in this morning - partly because of how i'm feeling and also so i can go to calvin's soccer.
happy monday.
i spun a little and headed to drop off my chip/eat a cookie. i sat down to eat and when i got up i could barely stand up. both sides of my behind were very sore - not sure if it was my piroformi or what but i hurt. wasn't normal soreness but more like the sensation of bruising (this is how i remember feeling every year after the hater). i rode to mt horeb hoping it would disappate but it just seemed to get worse. i called robin and luckily she was able to pick me up (i rode down to hwy p).
yesterday i got out on my freshly minted single speed. this is something i vowed i would never do but gosh darn it after yesterday i'm not sure i'm every going back geared for the trail. quarry ridge is an absolute joy now with all the added single track, and riding single speed was so much fun. i felt so liberated to not have to think about gears - just run what you brung and i found myself focused more on my lines and carrying momentum. so much fun, i felt like a kid again on my old schwinn thrasher. i had only wanted to go for an easy short ride but i got lost in the experience and pushed pretty hard.
it was another solid summer weekend. another monday of feeling very tired and groggy but for good reason. i drove in this morning - partly because of how i'm feeling and also so i can go to calvin's soccer.
happy monday.
Comments