Sliced my finger fixing my dropped chain, tan lines are getting pretty dark and my hair is something else.
I completed my first double metric century in over a year. It was the hardest riding I’ve done in a year with 126 miles and climbing 6,000+ miles. Saturday I felt good, I was pretty tired the last 10 miles were pretty hard with the wind in our faces.
Woke up Sunday and felt pretty good and felt like my legs would take a lil while to warm up on the course but I’d be ok. Well the field took off and I knew some of the guys at the front and knew it would be intense. We got outside of the city and they were gone but I was just wanting to make a good spot in the Overall for my first big race of the year. Two people came up riding up with me and off we went. Felt really good on the first big climb and felt a lil exhausted about mile 30. We got to the 70K & 100K split and felt like I would chance it and got for it all.
Next climb was pretty hard and I def was suffering up it. I haven’t done much climbing of this elevation but the last few weeks and I def could tell the training helped too. I left the group of 3 I was with on the bottom of the climb and just kept going. Being smart I waited a few minutes as going alone at that point didn’t seem like the best idea. We took off again and I was winded for a while but I slowly and steadily just pulled away (not intentionally).
At mile 50 I was exhausted and just barely holding on as the hills kept coming and my body was screaming for relief. At the last rest stop, we had only 10 miles left to go and I got my third wind. I took off up the next few climbs and just sped away and passed the ones that had passed me at the last rest stop. I finished and thought my legs were going to fall off. It was the most intense weekend in over a year.
Well the results were up when I checked this morning.
I was 48/59 racers, 1:07 behind the winner. That included stopping at the rest stops, which if we didn’t stick so long at the 2nd rest stop I def would have moved up farther in the standings. Just gives me some idea for the Garrett County Fondo in a month and I should place pretty well there I think.
I’m really proud of where I stood since I went up against a lot of the local racers and the climbing was pretty intense.
I’m hoping to get there before the end of the season regardless of a tailwind
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This was Wednesday night ride, we do 4 Laps and then sprint on the last lap. It is ran by a bike shop that has a racing team that rides with the group ride.
The first two guys are on the team, I feel pretty proud that I recorded a 6th top best so far on the course. I’ve been riding for 3 yrs now and those guys have been riding professionally for years.
Wore the hell out!!! Popped at mile 55 and rode alone last 11 miles. Felt great on the climbs today (Taken with instagram)
Trying to get there!!
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