Lignum vitae legs

Might be great for making carving mallets out of but man, might as well have lead in the legs.

Riding in was a challenge. Esp since the little one decided to squeeze into the trailer instead of riding the trail-a-bike. Oof that think is a lot more work to pull. Monday the legs still felt pretty good and it wasn't such a struggle. This morning oh man the smack down did a number on me. Got shelled at the second sprint line (but easily made it up Austin for a change. Got gapped a bit more on Douglas Hook. And gapped again up on Tourletot hill. But thanks to the guys for waiting up for me before drilling it. We took the longer way around and I just love it. Pops us out on elmdale? then Snake Hill there by the orchard. And from where we got back on Snake Hill until just before the light at 44 I drove it hard, pushed it. And yeah it was mostly down hill but hell it is a butt load of work pushing the pace above coasting, lots of watts. So when we hit the hill up to the T where we turn right on Greenville and AD attacked and then blew up I couldn't quite respond and AD and I spent the rest of the time riding has hard as we could to try and catch the other 4, slowly making up ground for a bit then Dr Flats would go to the front and drive the pace up a bit. We almost caught them, but at least we were back in the group before they hit the bike path.

It was pretty tough for me. My heart rate wasn't going back down as quickly, staying elevated far too long. I also felt like i wasn't getting enough oxygen into the blood, deep rapid belly breathing wasn't making me light headed like it does sometimes. Probably due to the excessive amounts of peanut sauce chicken rice carrots and cabbage I had for lunch (i made it so it was bad stuff free and the rice was medium grain brown ride). I could feel the lump in my belly for the first half of the ride. Timing the eating and drinking and all that is much easier for a race/ride before noon. Or I should phrase it: i'm much less likely to undermine my riding with improper eating if I ride in the morning.

The cool down was much needed and was pretty slow. It also just took me a very long time to get warmed up it seemed. That whole ride didn't really offer any encouragement for Saturday. It is going to be ugly esp with Results boy attacking like a monkey on crack the whole race.

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