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So i got 13th, and I am pleased with my result. For some reason i thought i was in the bottom five and was pretty upset. In hindsight, that doesn't make any sense, seeing as i was in the Tim Bauer, Darin Shriver, Single Speed d00d, and Keith Hower group, and all of those guys were super strong this year. For some reason i thought i was fading and losing and that this was the end. I would put all of my eggs into the ratface basket and play drums in a sub to medium par punk band until i was too old, then glue my face to the bar at the moose in the south side and sell my bicycles to fund my growing coke habit. I had it all planned out! I was so bummed, that i forgot that every time i rode the ride up after the prologue left turn of doom, there was a corral of 15 people cheering for me. I woke up at an odd hour this morning. 8:40 am. 7am i could have gone to Grove city today, 9:30 is when i usually wake up. So I woke up at 8:40 and realized that a gigantic group of friends and teammates were cheering for me.
Whenever I go out to MABRA or MAC races hearing Fat Marc and Diane, Jim V, Elin or Jen Riskus or anyone cheering for me or any of the pittsburgh racers that travel down, i get really excited. It is really cool to have that amplified at a local race, and i guess i have a hard time seeing it. John Rowley's Wife Marsha (Masha? i don't know i met her in real life not on paper) thought it was funny and cool how many people were cheering for me at grove city. It is really hard for me to focus on that. Maybe i feel like there is too much pressure at a local race to really think about it.
I sorta freak out about cyclocross. I wait all year for this. I have been stretching tires since June. I've been stretching my IT bands since February for this. Fuck, I wanted to join a team to hopefully try and race more so that i would be more fit for this. I actively raced the oval as part of a training plan to be better at this. It is hard to justify this to myself sometimes let alone countless friends and cycling acquaintances, and i feel kinda bad about it when i am a typical back of the pack B racer, which is essentially where i started when Turner Johnson, Mayhew, and Steevo made me race the B race so we could leave Pittsburgh later. That was 4 years ago?! It's hard to talk up something to so many people, and not equate my result to how much I like the sport i guess? or something.
I appreciate the cheering and hope that i can dole out as much cheering and even more heckling than recieved. So if i missed your race, and didn't cheer for you, i was probably doing some douchey bike racer thing: like warming up, or talking about my engine, or frantically trying to wash embrocation off of my nether regions.
The course yesterday was like a Crit course or a roadie course. Very corner to corner. For some reason i thought it was going to be super super technical, very wrong. Some of the zig zag turns were pretty fun, but it was just full throttle the whole time. there were two sweeping downhill sections and 2 punchy up hill sections, giving a whole 30 seconds of recovery per lap. That's hard!
I have to say that i didn't much care for the course, just in personal preference, but it was well laid out and rode super fast. There was a food vendor, plenty of water, announcer with music. "I turned into a martian" came on and I attacked, as soon as it was over, they reeled me back in to our group.
I wish i woke up earlier and felt less shitty and had less of a Headache. I really want to be racing grove city right now. I'm glad i had the opportunity to flush out some thoughts, seeing as after a double weekend it is hard to think.
So i got 13th, and I am pleased with my result. For some reason i thought i was in the bottom five and was pretty upset. In hindsight, that doesn't make any sense, seeing as i was in the Tim Bauer, Darin Shriver, Single Speed d00d, and Keith Hower group, and all of those guys were super strong this year. For some reason i thought i was fading and losing and that this was the end. I would put all of my eggs into the ratface basket and play drums in a sub to medium par punk band until i was too old, then glue my face to the bar at the moose in the south side and sell my bicycles to fund my growing coke habit. I had it all planned out! I was so bummed, that i forgot that every time i rode the ride up after the prologue left turn of doom, there was a corral of 15 people cheering for me. I woke up at an odd hour this morning. 8:40 am. 7am i could have gone to Grove city today, 9:30 is when i usually wake up. So I woke up at 8:40 and realized that a gigantic group of friends and teammates were cheering for me.
Whenever I go out to MABRA or MAC races hearing Fat Marc and Diane, Jim V, Elin or Jen Riskus or anyone cheering for me or any of the pittsburgh racers that travel down, i get really excited. It is really cool to have that amplified at a local race, and i guess i have a hard time seeing it. John Rowley's Wife Marsha (Masha? i don't know i met her in real life not on paper) thought it was funny and cool how many people were cheering for me at grove city. It is really hard for me to focus on that. Maybe i feel like there is too much pressure at a local race to really think about it.
I sorta freak out about cyclocross. I wait all year for this. I have been stretching tires since June. I've been stretching my IT bands since February for this. Fuck, I wanted to join a team to hopefully try and race more so that i would be more fit for this. I actively raced the oval as part of a training plan to be better at this. It is hard to justify this to myself sometimes let alone countless friends and cycling acquaintances, and i feel kinda bad about it when i am a typical back of the pack B racer, which is essentially where i started when Turner Johnson, Mayhew, and Steevo made me race the B race so we could leave Pittsburgh later. That was 4 years ago?! It's hard to talk up something to so many people, and not equate my result to how much I like the sport i guess? or something.
I appreciate the cheering and hope that i can dole out as much cheering and even more heckling than recieved. So if i missed your race, and didn't cheer for you, i was probably doing some douchey bike racer thing: like warming up, or talking about my engine, or frantically trying to wash embrocation off of my nether regions.
The course yesterday was like a Crit course or a roadie course. Very corner to corner. For some reason i thought it was going to be super super technical, very wrong. Some of the zig zag turns were pretty fun, but it was just full throttle the whole time. there were two sweeping downhill sections and 2 punchy up hill sections, giving a whole 30 seconds of recovery per lap. That's hard!
I have to say that i didn't much care for the course, just in personal preference, but it was well laid out and rode super fast. There was a food vendor, plenty of water, announcer with music. "I turned into a martian" came on and I attacked, as soon as it was over, they reeled me back in to our group.
I wish i woke up earlier and felt less shitty and had less of a Headache. I really want to be racing grove city right now. I'm glad i had the opportunity to flush out some thoughts, seeing as after a double weekend it is hard to think.
posted by Soupie! at 9:51 AM
2 Comments:
yeah Grove city was the the opposite of waynseburg. Good write up again if it wasnt hard finishing well wouldnt feel as good. funny you called called waynseburgh a "roadie" course though because I made up most of my time and passes in the turns, and trust me I am the least roadie of most people out there. anyways keep it up and see ya at Lil washington.
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