Being part of a club w/ a large road contigent, I often see those two words. They always come at the end of a ride description detailing some upcoming 3 hour tour. The ride profile is always epic..70+ miles, 8 jillion feet of climbing, no regroup, bleeding eyeballs, near death experience and oh, rain cancels.
Then there are my people. People who know full well what's in store and drive hours to get to it. Hallelujah!
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Rain Cancels? Pthffffffft
Happy Boy! Race Report #12
O. K. NOW i'm done. Thank you Peak Season and Mother Nature for a great course and even better weather. I may not have raced well, but damn if I didn't have fun riding like an idiot. Hypothermia, pink eye and giardia be damned. Best race of the year, bar none.
Thursday, January 03, 2008
What I need to do on my summer vacation
Now that cross season is *almost* over (see previous post), eyes turn uncontrollably skyward, searching the stars for clues to the eternal question, "How can I improve, how can I be better, how can I get faster... without doing any of the work"? It's that last part that always trips me up. I tried it this season and while I was able to ride less and ignore my training plan almost entirely, my result inexplicably suffered. My coach, Sister Lee, thinks that my problem is rooted in a previous life spent as lichen. The cure for purging my licheness turns out to be quite expensive, much more so than a 3 month run of EPO. When I asked for the EPO instead, she said she wasn't that kind of doctor, or any kind of doctor for that matter.
Now what the hell am I supposed to do. Race reports 10/11 and Beyond
I had intended to race the 22nd and 29th. Our oldest one got sick the first time, I got sick the second. I would have gladly taken both bullets as few things pain me more than watching my small child wretch (*shudder*) and thus ends the race reports. The trouble lies in the fact that the 29th was the last race on MY calendar, and if I had done them, well or not, I could have called my season 'Fini'. But now I've got this splinter festering and it just won't work itself out. O.K. so the real trouble is a character defect. The season feels undone. Why can't I just let it pass and look forward. Sometimes I hate my work ethic.
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