Oh the 'ol Brown County State Park Road Race was this past weekend. Yes I had planned to target this race and no it did not go as planned. Here is the ever perplexing thing about bike racing. Training can be going great, sensations can be right on point, power numbers can be signaling good things...and you can still have a complete shit day on the bike. This day on the bike was a complete crap shoot...I don't know why things were as bad as they were. I don't know what was wrong. Numbers in training were great...legs on the race warm up ride the day before were really solid. But I just flat out sucked...by lap 2 I was feeling the pain. Was hanging on to the lead group when some was having trouble with skipping gears on the switch back climb only to slow to a crawl forcing me to dip off the road, back on the road, and do one of those fun but completely scary inadvertent wheelies...haha. Had to unclip, fix the chain, and luckily got a push to start back up. This didn't cause my poor result...I was already hanging onto the pack, but it sure didn't help since I was out of gas to chase.
My buddy Cody climbing like a champ...glad to have him back!
Oh well, I'm really not all that bummed. Legs don't feel sore at all (which is weird considering how much I suffered yesterday) and I'm confident my form is coming along great right now. It is just a brutal course...in my opinion the hardest in the state. I gave it a go but just maybe syked myself out too much. I needed to just enjoy the day and not put so much pressure on the race...geeze it's just bike racing anyway. Guess I have some mental hurdles to work on.
Overall though...a super weekend. Casey and I got to fly kites Friday and Saturday. What a blast...even though we were fed up with tangled string by the end of it. We even nearly disrupted a plane since we tied 3 kites together to obtain maximum vertical sweetness. Weather was great, and I was stoked to catch up with the guys. We are destined to get that elusive Indiana win soon enough...Winona this upcoming weekend...maybe then? See everyone there!
mmm Winona... we're going to have some fun there.
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