I Hate Cycling

I was keeping a training log, but not a log, because I have one of those. I was keeping more of a notes on training, tracking how it's going, thoughts, etc. But I thought I'd do it online now.

'under an hour' because how fast am I going to do diablo? 'under an hour'. hopefully. *fingers crossed*

Did another cycling race this weekend, just trying to gain some handling skills/experience. But, you know what, I hate cycling races. You're too much at the mercy of every whim of the group. They all speed up, you have to speed up. I'm not good at that crap. Speeding up and slowing down.

I'm good at going one relatively fast pace for a long time.

I finished 4th out of 4. (We can discuss the problems with women's races and small fields some other time.) They combined us with the Category 3s and I was hanging just fine at first. But it was hard uphill and they were just hammering and I got dropped. I tried to stay in there, time-trialing by myself, but they lost me on the descent and then I got caught by two other woman. We had a lovely ride for a little while. Discussed cycling, bulimia, being 40 (not me, them). Then they dropped me too, cause I was just done.

When I'm done, I'm really done. Looked at my data after and it took 11 mintues for me to go the one mile uphill. The last 7 miles took a long time. At points I was going so slow I thought I would fall over. But eventually I finished. And because I got 4th I got a t-shirt and $5. Sweet.