So the OSU race was last weekend (my bad for not posting earlier) but it was an exciting weekend. We departed campus around noon on Friday on the big honkin' LWC charter bus. Bikes and bags and people scattered everywhere, was worried about my pretty Miranda getting scratched, but luckily nothing happened. When we arrived in Columbus on Friday evening it was freezing cold and raining, which meant a promising weekend of excitement on the bike. We ate dinner at CiCi's pizza.... WHOA. so. much. food ;)
Saturday rolled around and I was feeling pretty good despite the really cold wind and rain. Our race was the first to go off, two laps. BRRRRR.. was really cold! and WET! Right before the race started, I noticed my front brakes were not working! yikes! Legs were frozen and immediately wet, and the power output was just not there! I needed to do some sort of hard warm up to get my legs pumped and ready, but they were not. It took about 18 miles for my legs to feel really good, and by that point the field had kind of gone into the distance. I started to time trial to finish hard and pass people. Within the first mile that my legs opened, I had passed three
people, then came a 90 degree right turn. Neither of my brakes, front or rear, were working and.. I could not slow down enough to turn and I did not want to take the turn going 25mph since the roads were wet and very slick. Missed the turn, and the cop at the corner just stared at me. Those three people I had passed, made the turn and were ahead of me again. The TT continued once I got onto the right road. In the rest of the race, I ended up passing about 6-8 people, but still realized that I needed to have warmed up hard before the race, especially in the freezing conditions. Sunday was supposed to be a crit... but the roads were icy and it was snowing, so it was cancelled.
Moving forward to the next race at Notre Dame, which is the weekend after Spring Break 2011! I'm going to be prepared and mentally ready to dominate. I purchased the USACycling Coach Certification Manual because I want to work towards adding "Cycling Coach" to my resume. I am hoping to work with Coach Grigsby and gain some experience with the LWC Cycling Team and other respects, as well. Also, I am thinking about the AMFPT Strength and Conditioning Certification, as well, which would help me in many aspects. Lots to think about.
So, since the Spring Break trip was cancelled on Wednesday that Joel had set up, for lack of proper preparation, I decided to do the Tough Mudder in Georgia with Jimbo. I have just been doing regular training, but I will still be more than ready to dominate. I mean, I did an IronMan without really training for it (that was 140.6 miles - Tough Mudder is 10 miles). After the event TOMORROW, we're going to Jimbo's family's place and we're going to go camping, biking, running and many other chill, relaxed things (along with working on my research paper).
I'm rather excited about the next week or so, it will be great. Look for more, soon. Here's a picture from the road today... Jimbro, Chrisbro, and yours truly.
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