Santa Cruz prelim report

After 17 laps of pain in the Men's A race

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Here was the first lap where I did my best to hold off the fast hard start, it took 17 secs from the start to pop my HR to the redline.
-well hot damn I managed to get 25th out of 60

T-Minus 10 days

Well well well after last nights pre UC Santa Cruz meeting I find an unsettling feeling in my gut. The past few weeks of training have been great, my mind has been relaxed. I’ve had no thoughts of having to do well in the upcoming collegiate races, just visions of suffering on my TT bike. How quickly things change. The time has come during the meeting to mark your name under your category you plan to race in. Jake is first to put down men’s A, Scott follows and then etches my name for me under A’s. All I can do is slump down in my chair. I thought I had grown a backbone but obviously not.

I am not ready to compete against these guys. Although if were talking a flat ITT, then that’s a horse of another color. I think that I can place top 5 at every collegiate TT. Na na na….funk that…..I will place top 5 every time….take that shyte to the bank! Unfortunately for me Santa Cruz is a RR and HCTT. I can’t help but to think of this picture. Tyler Dibble, putting the hurt on Coach. Pretty much guaranteed he’s going to be there as well as the other high caliber riders. Which is fine by me, I like riding with good racers…..I just don’t want to be dropped on the first climb left dwindling down a lonely highway road for the rest of the day. If I can stay with the pack….then the race will be a success.

For some good news I am on the forth week of training with my powertap….or should I say I have 25days of consistent training. My FT is increasing, so I must be doing something right (just being consistent). The veins are here Olaf!!!!! Only down side is that it’s my left leg that is all sexy like, the right one needs to play catch up. Well time to hit the trainer before going to school.