RACE REPORT: DO THIS, BUT NOT THIS BIG MISS
RECAPPING THE RACE is imperative if we're gonna learn and improve. The awful, the okay...
... and the amazing.
Here's what...
- slept great
- arrived 105 minutes before the start (stay tuned to this point)
- great parking spot
- tire pressure perfect: 17 front, 18 rear
- nutrition spot on
- the great Kenny Benson surprised me and did my bottle hand ups
- new kit is so good
- pre-flight check list worked great (pic below)
- felt so good to ride race pace for 3 hours
- my brain is working so good, nearly all the way back, able to handle the g's in high speed berms and all the other fun stuff.
... went great today.
And, the big miss?
Oh, gosh...
... such a rookie move.
I knew the race started at 9:45.
At 9:30 I rolled over and saw the typical staggered posts for staging.
There it was plain as day...
... my wave would roll at 10:04.
When I returned at 9:50 expecting to see the hoards ready to smash it...
... I had a sinking feeling.
SHIFT!
10:4 was for the short course.
Now, there's two things we could do right here...
... cry in our sugar water or get after it.
You know what I did,
because you'd do the same thing.
Amiright?!
Long story short...
... would up second to the great Tinker Juarez.
Order has been restored to my universe.
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165.4 lbs/12.7%
640 Anti-Oxidant Score
7.5ish hours sleep
no Upper Body: push ups, pull ups, gripper, heel & toe raises
no Lower Body: split squats, nordic curls
90 minutes Reading/Journaling
92/97/-5 (fitness/fatigue/form per Strava - probably worthless data)
249 FTP per my TrainerRoad AI coach experiment - probably more worthless than Strava