Pain Session

Whoa. I think my legs still hurt from last nights race... 75 miles at 30 mph average in the pouring rain. My legs were absolute crap and after yo-yo-ing off the back for a few laps around halfway through - at 12 laps of 25 into the race, I came out for good and lost a lap. You could lose a lap and stay in the race here, so I chilled out and waited for the group to come around and tried not to fall over. I ended up losing a pretty good chunk of time, but I have all my skin where its supposed to be, I am having fun with my team mates and ready to race hard again today. I have to keep in mind that it was important that I took some time off, but I did de-train my fitness some, and that my first big race back will be kinda tough - the lesson being, stay positive and look to the future, the legs will come to life again soon and hopefully in greater force than before I rested.

We had a few guys not so lucky as I, some more crashes, and some more laps lost. Bummer. It was so wild, almost just unpredictable where the wrecks were going to be. Dirty roads, manhole covers, zebra paint on the corners and a jumpy 175 man field combined to make a war-zone in the peleton. I saw one rider (who will remain un

named :) stack it, lose his bike to the left side of the road where the wreck was, catch some air, land and slide 100 feet to the opposite side of the road where he ended up on all fours facing the opposite direction of the race! He had this look on his face of total confusion mixed with fear, we looked at eachother as I passed, his look saying "holy crap what just happened" and mine saying, "I'll be damned, you don't see that every day."

Today is a 110 mile road race with some significant climbing, s

hould be sweet!

A nice photo from the TT yesterday... check out that fog!