Legs getting tired

Tonight before leaving work my legs were feeling like lead. I was fatigued but not tired. A sensation that I'm not used to. Normally I'm more often sleep deprived. I feel rested but tired.

Why? Racing back and forth. Last few nights I've been racing home as fast as possible and i've been making decent time. And adding racing in the morning (leaving later than planned a couple times) adds to the stress. Not counting the fact that I've been down to the remote facility three times this week. I'd kind of forgotten about it.

I tried to ride home slowly and easily, but man it was cold, the chill was pretty solid. The temps were falling fast and the wind was up around 20mph blowing right off the water. It was cold and I just couldn't ride slowly.

That is the other part. It just isn't as easy to take it easy riding in when the temps are in the teens or twenties with winds from ten to twenty five mph. That and I've had a tendency to over gear lately and that probably isn't helping much either. Over gear, 4 days in a row adding three trips to the remote facility. Trips down there are usually a full on sprint because I have less than ten minutes to get there and it takes me a little less than 10 minutes to get there with the stop signs and lights and all that. And then coming back up the first two days Legend bike shop was closed so no reason to take the easy/flatter way back to the main factory so straight up the hill. Today i took it easy getting there sort of. But then there was traffic to keep up with and stick with the flow so it wasn't so easy either.

Now at least i know why my legs are tired.

Nice thing is it is getting brighter later. I made it home leaving right at 5pm and didn't have to switch from the quad set up of superflash blaze Planet Bike lights.

One more day of riding in, then I can take a couple days off, maybe. Maybe i'll get on the bike sunday. We'll see how everything sorts out. Right now Solobreak has a 15 minute fat ass challenge. Ride the trainer 15 minutes a day every day for a month. I was all set to get the Croll put back together (I have one ridable bike right now, the Giant TCX with fenders and marathon plus tires and lights). Stick the some old crappy worn out tire on the back of one of the wheels and leave the Croll on the trainer.

I miss the smell of camphor and menthol. Cross season turned that smell into super positive scent memory.

So, good reading? Check Fries weblog for an awesome story about Tabor and what really goes into being an announcer. It is more than just shouting TIM JOHNSON TIM JOHNSON TIM JOHNSON TIM JOHNSON. Sure that was pretty cool watching Timmie race back from rolling a tire and all that at G-ster. But Treefarm and Wicknasty were racing and i was 'new' to the New England scene and well hey i'll be honest, it took me a while to really appreciate how cool of a guy Timmie J is.

Oh and Jonny Bold's blog entry about Nationals. Maybe we just need to make sure Nationals are south of the mason dixon line and are NOT in Ski Resort towns like, um, say BEND. The whole bit about qualifying makes sense too. If there weren't nearly 200 people in the race i wouldn't have started behind 150 of them and then when i crashed hard i wouldn't have drifted back behind 195 and it would have been just been like a normal race. Okay who'm i kidding. I barely belong there. If i have more than one or two major issues in a race i'm close to being lapped. Or I was. Hopes are that this coming season will be different. I'm all over the place tonight.

Should just close it up. Pack it in. Put my feet up and

... have a gansett neighbor.

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