Sunny outside and I don't want to be sitting in this office!

Another weekend of racing goes by, except this one was a little disappointing. Raccoon Mtn is typically one of the bigger regional women's fields in early spring. This year we had a whopping 15 in the women's 1/2/3 field and it wasn't b/c there was a lack of prize $$. This race is what i like to call a bad sorority meeting. A bunch of girls out for a sunday afternoon stroll. My power tap will attest to that. You gotta hate when the numbers won't lie. The race drug on. A few attacks nothing substantial. One lap down, tried to tire the field out a little by setting a decent pace up the climb. Guess we dropped a few. By the end of the 1st lap there were only about 8 of us left, 4 of those girls were from BMW Bianchi. There were 2 of us from kenda and 2 from random teams. One would think this is not a good situation to be in and that this lap could get a little hard. But with numbers, sometimes bring laziness and that's exactly what happened. On the stair stepper climb, we were basically crawling. I had enough, with one more step to go, I attacked and left everyone back. One bianchi girl finally bridged and we kept the break for about 10-15 minutes, right before the finishing climb. It was just enough time to sit back in for a couple of minutes and recover. With a little less than 1km to go i picked up the speed again. Should have attacked with more committment but was a little tired. Lori from Moab made a jump and i stuck her wheel. The finish was literally right around the corner into a small decline. Who the heck picked this for the finish. DOWNHILL. I was sure we had about 100 meters to go with a slight uphill so i just sat on her wheel. Wrong answer, I literally sat back and watched her win...I hate it when i make stupid mistakes but i guess that is all about learning the sport.

It's tuesday and since the race was SO SLOW, now i have a SCARY workout waiting for me when i finish work. Thanks COACH, appreciate it...Sandy, one of my athletes is coming into town to do the workout with me. She is gonna freak when she finds out what we get to do! So that leads me back to it's beautiful outside and I am sitting here working on the Edgar Soto Memorial Stage race, which is one of 3 stage races in 3 consecutive weekends for me. First Joe Martin, then Tri-Peaks and back to Nashville to do Edgar Soto, www.sotomemorial.org,. Which will all have some major climbing in them. Luckily i get to go to Boone this weekend and climb until my legs want to fall off. Sounds like fun, huh? But ya gotta be ready to climb or else be ready to CHASE for 3 weekends in a row. NO THANKS!


Here is a picture where all the day dreaming happens.