destroyed

I'm feeling completely wrecked from this past weekend.

Finally had a decent night sleep and when the alarm went off i just did not want to get up. No waking up every 3 hours finally. No lying in bed trying to calm the mind down enough to sleep. Maybe it was the Leviathan plus tall boy that had the right combo to send me off to sleep land. Maybe it was mentally solving the problem I created by being tired earlier. Either way it was nice to finally get a good night sleep. Running on no where near enough sleep since, well, shit, since Cross started. Go figure.

Packing in the weekend stuff on the nights of the weekdays racing and travel and not resting well. Is taking a toll.

I needed a mental pick up.
So dug up this video:

And it worked for the first half of the what i've got written down to this point.

No where near as awesome footage wise as my earlier post, man that was so awesome, but I will have to admit to being somewhat bored by the Bicycle song being used in cycling videos, despite the on time brilliant editing. I need an audio and video double focused attack to get going some time.

And now that it has worn off I probably won't work in the links to Solo and G-ride and Colin and the rest.

But man - reflecting on last weekend. Everyone was there. Freaking brilliant weekend. Lots of fun racing and that venue really is all it can be. Really challenging racing. And I'm pleased with the results. Everyone seems faster this year. Curtis is faster this year and hell everyone has upped their game, esp freaking G-ride. Man he's on fire. And Myette! Damn that kid, top 20 both days at PVD. Nice.

That said - three weekends (6 races) of pressure cooker Verge racing is exhausting. Take a deep breath exhausting. That shit is INTENSE.

Looking forward to this coming weekend. Planning to hit Mansfield Hollow on Saturday. Where I rolled the front wheel that g-ride loaned me last year and I lost a handful of spots and hard won time. I did really have fun there. Not sure on which race to go for but probably will do the 2,3,4 35+ race. That or maybe man up and do the 1,2,3 for an hour. Hell I was on course for an hour at G-ster. I think I have a day or two to decide. Probably will race "up" to the 1,2,3. Enough mental cogitating. Just need to focus on right now. Focus on the task at hand (finishing the last of a smallish lunch for example).

Oh and Solobreak, it was just two bottles of wine between three of us, and Il Gordo left half of his OE 800 in the fridge. I'm not sure what to do with it, it is too late in the year to worry about catching slugs.

Tom and Richard and Gene and the rest of the organizers who put the show on this weekend? AWESOME. Really cool that so many people I knew were able to volunteer and help make it happen. Interbike was really pretty cool. I wish I could have been there on thursday in the sun instead of friday in the rain, but it is all what it is. Next year.

Next year hopefully it will grow and be bigger. There were definitely more people than at a normal cross race. Maybe dropping the entry fee to $5 would more than double the consumer attendance? It would have been nice to see more visibility by the local shops (with booths and stuff) esp on Consumer days, maybe in conjunction with some of the bigger brands they carry (EP at Giant, Casters at Specialized for example).

It was great. And it was hard. And I'm making improvements. Doing better than I have. There's more strength/speed to find before the big bang at the end of the season.

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