weather=warm+sunny

there is no better way to end a week, and start a week, then with a race. ha. this morning i felt pretty good. legs were not tired at all, rest of me felt well rested as well. So i took off solo to como park. i got there a bit early so i just hung out in the nice warm sun for about an hour. then i went on my warm up, and came across the state fair grounds. i rode around in it for a while. it was really really weird being there with no people and on a bike. crazy.

no line for the cookies

mighty mighty midway?

got milk? nope...

after that i went and rode the course. it was so friggin bumpy i thought i might die. pothole everywhere. everywhere. and even the sidewalk/bike path the race went on were terrible. so after that i lined up and the race was off. quite a big race i might add. dont know how many, but seemed big. i had a bad start and got stuck behind lots of people on the bike up and run up. no good. so i had lost a bit there, finally it spread out and i was movin up and feelin good. i think at 3 or 4 laps in the guy i was behind took a corner to sharp and went down, i proceded the get my foot on his hood, and shin braced against the flat of the bars. all my momentum and weight went right into my shin, it hurt a lot. i also twisted my hip funny. for the next half lap i was recovering from that so i lost quite a bit of time. once the pain receeded i just went, i made up a little ground but with that incident i lost the back of the group i was in. so i chased for the rest of the race. my back hurt a bit, but i tried not to pay attention to that and just bike. it worked pretty well. eventually i caught some of the guys from the group. but not the ones i wanted. so despite the crash the race went pretty well. i still think i can bring it up a notch though, just really need to work on my start.
we will see what happens on the home turf next weekend!

look familiar? well it is. my scar (not scab) got ripped open again...