The past weekend was another tough one with a 2.5 hour ride at Kelso on Saturday and then a long 4 hour ride their again on Sunday. I did some race pace laps on Sunday, planned on doing 4 but went to start the 4th and knew it would've been a waste as my legs were done. I met Kyle up there for my last 2 hrs and we climbed the service road and cruised around the back of Kelso for a bit. I hadn't been back there for a bit so it was good times. This upcoming week is my last tough week before an easy week so I expected very little from the legs. I went easy on Monday's road ride and was feeling pretty tired after a lack of sleep from the move in. Yesterday I rode the new course for 2 hrs which was about 5 times up the service road. I kept it a light pace since I had no power in the legs.
The race in the evening went better then I thought since I figured I'd barely finish since my legs were toast after the 2 hrs before. I went to start at a good pace but got to the bottom of the service road and felt a lack of go in the legs so I let the others catch up and followed their pace. During my pre ride I was going slower and never really tested the sandy lose corners, once we were going at a fast pace I found out the hard way how lose the corners were. I hit the deck making a left and went down on the same hip I did last week, got back up and hammered and caught back on to Tyler, Alex, and Schidt's wheel. I wanted to up the pace as I knew I could on the flats but I also knew I lacked the legs to keep that pace so making a random attatck and then being caught would've been useless. On another left turn about 10mins down the trail I hit the deck again, except this time much harder. This one hurt and gave me some nasty road rash on my hip. It took a little longer but oce I got going again I caught back on. I was riding pretty sloppy the first lap but cleaned it up on the second and third. Schmidt and I were riding alone together for the last 2 laps as we pulled away from the other 2. He pull on the flats with his big wheels and I'd lead in the single track. I wasn't finding our pace too hard but I knew I didn't have the legs to break away or win in a sprint in the end, I just had no top end. On one of the last singletrack sections I didn't see a rock and caught my front wheel and threw my stem into my gut. By the time I could breath again and got rolling Schmidt was way ahead and I pulled in 2nd. I was really feeling it by the end, barely made it up the hill to the finish. I'm happy with how I did, I cleaned up my riding in the last 2 laps and was able to still have a solid ride and hang on even with being super tired.
Today I'm off to the gym and then I got to work at the gym for a bit thenit's off to go home to bed. With the move and all going on my sleep has dropped a bit in the last 2 nights, not a good thing when the training volume is high. I'm looking forward to next week to recover, I'm starting to really feel all the training now and have been getting pretty tired lately. Thursday is an easy road spin with 2 sets of Tabata intervals, Friday is just a core workout and the weekend will be tough to finish off a hard week. I'm planning on an easy 3 hr road ride on Saturday and a hard race pace intervals ride at Kelso on Sunday.
Hope this super hot/dry weather stays
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