oh Greenville

The first weekend of the Greenville Training series has come and gone. Hopefully the races served their purpose and give me some fitness and leg speed. Like most 'training' races, everyone was racing full out and occasionally doing stupid things like crashing. Also, as is the norm for training races, most people are out on their brand new team bikes with race wheels. I tried to one up everybody by racing on my trusty 4 year old training bike, but a few people were there on cyclocross bikes, so I'm not sure who wins that competition.

Anyway, race reports from local races are boring, so Saturday I was in a breakaway for a while, got caught, race winning counter went instantly without me. Made some unnecessary hard efforts for training, got out of the way in the sprint for 9th. Sunday I attacked with two guys early on, road away, botched the finale and got 2nd. I'm embarrassed I didn't win, I probably should have. One of the riders in the break is a good friend of mine and we wanted to make sure the third guy who wasn't doing much work didn't win (no hostility, he wasn't being a punk, just couldn't work as hard). So my buddy took a manly win and I still can't sprint, end of that story.

More important things from the weekend:
-I was reminded Monday that you need to plan things to do the day after races otherwise you are bored with post-race depression all day.

-Thanks to my rad hotwire.com skills we stayed in an awesome hotel for $13 bucks a person.

-I lost my World Champion of Foosball title. I'm disappointed in myself and training hard to get it back.

-There was a problem on the interstate on the way home that had traffic at a standstill, but we managed to find a sketchy backroad way around the problem and make awesome time getting home, that was a victory in itself.

Now that racing season is picking up I'll have more to share on this thing and probably update more often.

mother nature is such a tease

Maybe going to the bahamas wasn't that good an idea, after some good weather in Ga and this:



my body was all excited for spring, tanlines, and sunburns. But no, now I'm back to this nonsense:




You'd think Macon is better, but snow is preferable to 5 degrees warmer and pouring rain.....