ain't it great to wake up and have the build up of crap in the deep back of the sinuses... not enough to imped the breathing but the drainage yuck?
Yeah i'm pushing the sick envelope... but i'm feeling okay and should beable to pull through.
One thing i noticed... i was physcologically able to push my self way farther when offering support to Ted when we were off the back. Alone i couldn't seem to find the same reserves to push it around. If i'd gone off the back of the crit with one other i'd have probably stuck it out. Something strange that i always seem to be able to work harder and better for others than myself. In most everything it seems.
That and the BCBS health newsletter showed up yesterday and the last 'blurb' was about "Silencing your inner critic."
DOH. Yup, definately need to work on that. Need to spend more time with vocally positive folks like Zoe. Fuck i'm more negative than FnF, it would seem, at least about myself. Its a big change to focus positive first. And one that in general i am constantly amazed at the fact of how much better i feel when i can work the positive side rather than the negative side.
And yeah, its official, i didn't get scored for even starting the Crit. That effin blows. hard to stay positive when i don't even get a smidge more credit than the no shows. Mentally i'm still having trouble wrapping my head around that. Not being listed when we left on Sunday dumped me in a hole that i was able to mentally crawl out of but it was tough, woulda been nice to be recognized as starting. But yes. I know, its an Omnium scoring... and yeah i know, i didn't get any points on any day. And the field was wicked strong and very fast and i was WAY over my head. And yeah i am pretty happy with how it went when i push some of the negative thoughts out of the way.
Time to gear up for cross though... time to work on mounts and dismounts and the running stuff... fingers crossed my meager clincher tire selection that served me well on the michigan courses holds up this year... i'm thinking though that i'll need one more set, as wide as i can go... to balance out the choices.
well...
peace out... ride fast... stay positive
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You should stay positive. Remember that everyone else in that race has been competing all year. You haven't even been doing training races, just a few TT's. It's not all fitness, some of it is just being used to reading the race and anticipating the crunchy moments.
If you did one thing wrong, it is violating my rule that says don't do ANYTHING other than ride defensively when you are on an unfamiliar road course.
At Ninigret, your gear-mashing style may have hurt you. That is one course where you really need to be able to spin it up. But I wasn't there, so maybe that wasn't it.
I am loving life with my 36 chainring. Extensive blog entry coming soon.
Yes, i violated that rule in spades.
The gear mashing? Well i felt pretty good with the ticking over, i never dipped down to the smallest gears, but then yes my gear mashing may have hurt cause i don't have the leg speed built up for something like that, but honestly the speed seemed to be okay... just that every time they lit the afterburners i was burried...
Hmm 36 eh? I hope ya didn't use it at all this weekend...
But its making me think that maybe i need to dump down a gear on the cross bike... watching the Gloucester race from last year on youtube is kicking me over to your side of the fence on cross gearing...
Actually, I forgot I put the 36 on. At the start of the RR, since I had no warmup, I stayed in the little ring (the only time all weekend). I couldn't figure out why I was spinning so fast... Checked out the Polar data later, it was 134 rpms at the peak, about 1 minute into the race.
I think I am sick
I know I am drunk
I think I am sick
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