Monday, October 22, 2007

Southington, Paul Curley, A/C on on the way home, LS skinsuit unzipped racing

Leaves, global climate change, increase in growing season, increase of photosynthesis, increase of carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere...

riding strong today

Slick Willy Lube - new chain... 1/2 bottle gone... time for report - simple: AWESOME STUFF

Water bottle drinking hand thing clarification (ie who first got me thinking about it, habit... increase personal skill set) Skill set increase is good...

coffee - proximity to race for heavy drinkers important? (light users get longer benefits)...

single ring? rear der malfunction? tough... double ring? rear der malfunction? two speed with enough difference to be a saving grace...

Score one for double ring (not to pour misfortune down on others - but it is best to learn from real examples in real life, not made up hoopty ATMO crap - although my opinion is still just that.

there

simple

unGeWilli-esque

Southington: Awesome hard roadie sort of course. The sand last year was not really ridable by everyone (me) and this year 100% ridable. No Barriers. Only the stairs coming off the beach. It hurt. Rode 1 lap in lead. Rode 2nd lap on Paul Curly's wheel, and yes - got hole shot, let a joes garage guy lead through first left hand 180, passed him (sorry it was a rough pass - didn't mean to bump) to lead and gap everyone on the up hill 180.

Lap 3 the legs seemed not to be able to push as hard. WTF. Anyway. Felt awesome to be up there. I drifted back a lot in the next couple laps. finished 16th. Paul Curley won 39:14 or something, i hemmoraged about 3 minutes before crossing the line. I think we did 5 laps. First two were unmarked, 3 lap i had head down going past start. Then coming around next saw 2 to go. Too hot. But it got much hotter. Felt fortunate not to have to race in the A/B race. That and my legs finally felt like they raced after one race. Good stuff.

I'll fill in the rest of the stuff later.

Thanks Wade. Great course. A bit of a drive but the girls had a ton of fun and the breakfast at the Pepper Pot post race was perfect!

And in case you stumble on this - maybe you can run the course UP the stairs next to the slide next year? That would be cool!!! Seems a shame not to take advantage of that elevation change back there!!!

-G
written (if you can call it that) by before

3 comments:

josh said...

when we saw you up there with curly, it was sort of like....holy sh*t, is that ge riding with curly?

nice work.

whats all the talk of the single/double ring broken stuff, did your bike fall apart like mine?

11:52 AM
gewilli said...

was refering to your mishaps from the day before...

no, my bike was great.

the engine only had a couple Curley paced laps in it...

Hey at least my wife can tell when the wheels fall off the wagon from 1/2 across the field...

my body language was great (according to her) for the first 2+ laps... then...

she noticed i had kinda fallen off the edge...

one of these days...

one of these days i'll figure out how to keep that fast look for a whole freaking race... might take a couple years but damn it...

i'm going after it

11:55 AM
josh said...

I figured as much. I still prefer single ring. you mess up your rear derailler maybe 1-2 times a season. you can do it verveckin style and drop out, or you can do it the way cary f did at bedford and single speed it. I had two gears for parts of the race two, and I learned from mine (brass cable ends are the way to go). I'd rather have to deal with it once or twice a season tops than dropping my chain 11enty time a race. plus, I still rode a pretty ok race.

re body langauge, I do the same thing. looking angry but in good form early, to looking dead and all over the place late. if you find out the secret let me know.

1:22 PM

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