Monday, April 26, 2010

We are not in Kansas anymore...............

Saturday was a good workout albeit slightly wet and windy. The problem with wind is it blows me up before I can get very far down the road. I spend the remainder of the ride somewhere in no man's land between recovering and maxing out.

Maybe all the training in the wind will be a blessing come race day.

Sunday was just wierd. One of the best training rides I have had yet. It was so quiet..........as if no one was even about. I rode a hard first 6 miles then turned into the wind. It was like a wall and then I eventually began to settle into a more rhythmic pace. I wound up with about 26.5 miles when I decided to finish up.

It was raining but I stayed fairly dry. At least until the heavy downpours came. That is when even the very technical cycling clothes no longer kept me dry. I was soaked to the bone. Still I really didn't feel cold until I was closer to home. I had the pleasure of doing some hill work in the rain this time. Interesting. I feel like this ride did something for me that I can not fully explain.

I felt very alone out there Sunday. I saw only one other cyclist on a mountain bike heading back toward Washington before the rain started.

I am now in a place I have not ventured into often as a cyclist.........Never this far. To deliberately head out for a training ride knowing that I would be caught in a rain shower. A long rain shower. As I rode I thought of something I read that Lance Armstrong once said. " I rode when no one else would ride"

I am definitely now in a place I hve never been before........I don't think I am in Kansas anymore.

Forecast is possible showers, and windy for Race Day. Hmmmmm. I wonder.

later
jp

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