Another lame excuse is I didn't have my Quarq CinQo since it was back at Spearfish, SD to get some work done. However, they did a fantastic job fixing it. Mieke sent me a Fedex 2day return label so I sent it in on Monday. Repairs done, then overnighted it back to me and I had it back on the bike on Friday! The CinQo itself was working fine, it just wasn't fitted exactly right on the crank which gave me some bad ring wobble. This caused me to have less than desireable shift quality and I was often throwing chains. Regardless, it was refitted and now its working fine. A+ on customer service.
Anyway back to today's race. I was driving solo since Stoner bailed on me last minute. I got a text message at 8:06 am that he wasn't going (planned on leaving at 8:45). Come on, bailing the morning of is one thing, but sending me a text message instead of a phone call?
I've never raced this course before and there was a nice 2 minute hill leading up to the start finish. I am always worried about hills since climbing is not my forte but it turned out not to be so bad the 2 times I went up it. I felt pretty good during my race but on the 3rd lap I started to get an upset stomach. The 4's field some how managed to catch us and rode away and my stomach felt worse and worse. Comeing back to the hill, I let the group ride away and I took my time up the hill. Once at the top, told the official I was out then quickly headed down to the parking lot headed straight for the Port-a-John. Saturday's dinner was wrecking havoc and I won't go into further details.
I changed and sat around in the car for a while but realized it'll be a while before anyone finished so I just decided to drive home.
The past few weeks have been a little disappointing but I'm sure it'll turn around. I mean look at last year, all season was one big disappointment and then at the end of the year, I pulled off several top 10's and 20's during cross season.
Miles on the car: 285
YTD: 2698
1 comments:
I'm sorry, man, that sucks. Seems as if no one had a good day today (see Julie's blog, and my teammate Joe's "La Maglia Nera" on my blog).
Sometimes you go through a rough patch, but you reprioritize and realize your strengths. You said so yourself that you got some top 10s and 20s in CX in your first or second year racing CX. What does that tell you? Maybe you're better suited for the short, intense stuff than the long, endurange racing?
Either way, there's lots of season left. It's only the 3rd of May and we have seven months left of bike racing in various forms and lots of awesome training rides to do, right?
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