Racing....TN style,
After a long week of work and two more hard days in the saddle with my newly found riding partner, my legs and body were officially worn out. But as everyone knows, I am the type of person that will keep on pushing through until things slow down. Coming home from work on Friday, I was heading straight for a nap, but house guests for the weekend were already waiting in the driveway. No rest for me as I proceeded to get both my mtn and road bikes set up to race. Yep, good ole me doing a split weekend just to prove a point to some peeps that the mtn bike racing I do is just as tough or tougher than what they think. To sum up that story, I proved it well by breaking away and winning the Pro 1/2 road race by several minutes. Uh oh, I may be becoming a double threat. Whatever training I've been doing or the lack of has been working. Anyways point proven, but now I had the Chickasaw SERC the next day a stocked field of pros to keep me on my toes.
I showed up with my "A" game and proved it by going into the woods in 2nd place out of 20+ riders. I pulled the group along for the 1st 35 min until another unlucky break. Yep, the same flat tire that took me back last weekend proved to surface again. And with the caliber of riders on Sunday, fighting my way back was tough. I tried but another two flats took me out for good, or at least of contention. I finished the race by riding the flat and running for over an entire lap. I definitely got the "biggest heart award" according to someone that yelled at me as I ran across the finish line with cheers.
I must say I should have gotten more rest for the weekend, but I wouldn't have given up the good times I had with some of my boys going to several live music shows. I found my new favorite band as we stayed out until 1:30am on Saturday night watching the CD release performance by AutoVaughn. Check'em out, very worthwhile and will be in Murray on April 20th, as will I. Yeeeessssssss!
Well definitely whipped from this weekends efforts on the bikes and from lack of sleep so this is all for now. I'll see some you next weekend as I anticipate coming back to my home turf at the White Lightning at LBL. See you there!
After a long week of work and two more hard days in the saddle with my newly found riding partner, my legs and body were officially worn out. But as everyone knows, I am the type of person that will keep on pushing through until things slow down. Coming home from work on Friday, I was heading straight for a nap, but house guests for the weekend were already waiting in the driveway. No rest for me as I proceeded to get both my mtn and road bikes set up to race. Yep, good ole me doing a split weekend just to prove a point to some peeps that the mtn bike racing I do is just as tough or tougher than what they think. To sum up that story, I proved it well by breaking away and winning the Pro 1/2 road race by several minutes. Uh oh, I may be becoming a double threat. Whatever training I've been doing or the lack of has been working. Anyways point proven, but now I had the Chickasaw SERC the next day a stocked field of pros to keep me on my toes.
I showed up with my "A" game and proved it by going into the woods in 2nd place out of 20+ riders. I pulled the group along for the 1st 35 min until another unlucky break. Yep, the same flat tire that took me back last weekend proved to surface again. And with the caliber of riders on Sunday, fighting my way back was tough. I tried but another two flats took me out for good, or at least of contention. I finished the race by riding the flat and running for over an entire lap. I definitely got the "biggest heart award" according to someone that yelled at me as I ran across the finish line with cheers.
I must say I should have gotten more rest for the weekend, but I wouldn't have given up the good times I had with some of my boys going to several live music shows. I found my new favorite band as we stayed out until 1:30am on Saturday night watching the CD release performance by AutoVaughn. Check'em out, very worthwhile and will be in Murray on April 20th, as will I. Yeeeessssssss!
Well definitely whipped from this weekends efforts on the bikes and from lack of sleep so this is all for now. I'll see some you next weekend as I anticipate coming back to my home turf at the White Lightning at LBL. See you there!
posted by Unknown at 6:23 PM
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it will be a good race for ya. I can feel it.
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