First one not on a Wednesday night.
Second one I've attended.
First time I cut the tire on the tubeless set up on the geared bike (mud tires). Back up bike (with Limus tubulars) was the Croll. A tank, and set up as single speed in the 46x17.
Also that was the time that COLIN mr resultsboy founder of Crossresults started the Cat 3/4 race in Alphabetical order. Me and Craig Vettori hanging out in the back. I actually had decent points then.
So yeah back row start up to top ten, passing and passing and then no air - get pit bike - i don't remember, maybe I wrote about it, but going from flat to going to the pit and getting the other bike. Well that didn't really go well. I think there was less climbing in that edition than this years though. Or I was 20 pounds lighter and still much closer to the 2013 fitness. And fired up with all that beer drinking bravado.
I got lapped, I had fun but was kind of a shit show. Picking up JLS at the station and driving him out there was fun too. Added a bit of good social side connection stuff.
This year.
It had a real singlespeed event and Chip decided that it should be part of the series. Sounds great.
I haven't touched the CX bike since Midnight ride. Another former wed night race. It was the one that fucked me up, heat plus not being recovered plus that stupid throwback jersey.
Meanwhile everyone else was building a special bike or digging through the parts bins and putting as light of a gear as they could on the bike. or they were zip-tieing. I have a nasty grudge against the zip-tie advantage now. If I could I would have just done that, but now that i've been on a dedicated SSCX rig for a couple years I can't imagine doing the zip tie and now understand the non NECX ridicule of that practice. I've suggest the intro to SSCX punch card. You get 5 punches with zip-tie before you have to start with one cog in the back and one chainring and no derailleurs. Chain tensioner ok. KB decided to leave his SSCX bike in the car and race his geared bike zip tied. But he dropped a chain, took a while to fix it then gave up and went home. He might have been smart, his SSCX gearing wasn't much easier than mine and mine was aweful.
I did a couple pre-ride laps, i could ride but not fast. It hurt like a sonofabitch. I was stuck. I don't have back up cogs/chains ready to go. I have one gear. it was way too tall. Too hard. Which when you're trying to climb and race is a bad thing. Could I ride? Yeah, i was fucking slow though. And it hurt.
I got lapped, I got slower and slower each lap. I fucked up the corners a bit, couldn't quite find the line or the confidence. The tires actually held surprisingly well, but I was not feeling up to the task of finding their limit. And the two sections where the taller gear was helpful wasn't helpful.
And I was starting to get sick. And as rested as I tried to be I wasn't totally recovered.
But my legs felt much better. I could pedal. Not fast. But shit, I am not a hill climber. Was it fun? Yeah. I'm glad I went. But I was completely useless on Sunday. Like barely functional. Mentally and physically.
A bit better today, but still not quite there. Part of me wonders if something is wrong, the other part just says "hey dumbass you need a restful vacation." Partly starting to burn out here at work, and that's burning me out everywhere. And still missing that extrinsic muse level inspiration.
I probably should have been eating lunch instead of writing.
Also really feel like I need more coffee, but I didn't bring any with me, so I'm going to try and struggle through the afternoon.
car struggles happening, Van's wheel bearings are getting worse and I'm totally stressing about trying to figure out when I can get it to the shop. And then there's the whole maybe I don't have to head to the place that told, maybe a closer shop can do the work and the complexity level can be decreased. And of course the demands are from someone else but i have to deal with it. And the volvo's steering was wonky on Saturday so the drive to the venue was fraught with anxiety. So yeah. Things are actually pretty good but I can't seem to manage to escape from certain anxiety triggers or complications. Almost feels easier just to try and change the fucking thing myself. And while it might be easy I haven't done this before and don't have some of the heavy duty tools needed for this car.
Ugh.
but you know I guess these are not the worst problems to have... just can't deal with it... but i don't have much choice...
gotta shift back into crazy high gear, was nice sitting down for a second
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