Suffer-fest

Well, that pretty much sucked.

I raced this last weekend, and it was harsh.  I'm a little disappointed in myself for sucking so bad.  The course was really technical, beyond my current abilities.  I had to walk my bike over and around stuff often...which messes up with your rhythm.  It was also scorching hot...and crazy humid which didn't help things.  I had a few crashes.  Yeah I don't know what happened.  I had 2 good laps in the morning, but by the third lap I was suffering.  The forth lap was just dangerous, I was so hot and I was kind of out of it. By the fourth lap I was having a difficult time controlling my bike properly, so I wasn't as stable, and with this course being as technical as it was I thought it best if I finish that lap and call it a day. That's exactly what I did.

After this race I am more nervous than I was before for the 24 hour race. 

Heading Out

Quick Note:  I'm running out the door to go do my first solo race with some endurance.  It's a 8 hour race about 2 hours away from our home.  We are camping tonight so Seth can race tonight and then around 10am tomorrow I will start racing.  I need to remind myself it's all about preparing myself for the 24 hour race...so I need to ride more conservative and hold back at first....I'm excited.  It's going to be fun.  I forgot to mention this earlier but I sprained my ankle a few weeks ago so it has derailed my training plan, so I am not trained for this race, but I better just pick up where I can and start riding. Okay I need to go pack the car, I'm not even going to re-read this. Ciao