Ups and Downs...

On Saturday I felt great and had a fantastic ride, on Sunday I felt like crap (I guess that shouldn't surprise me) Monday I did almost nothing. I fished a little, cleaned up the basement, and sat around a lot. A good day of rest. Tonight i hit Middle run and White Clay for a couple hours. I went solo tonight and felt pretty good at first, then I decided to take a crack at Andrew's Gauntlet. I was about an hour in and gave it everything I had, my time was a 7:56. I didn't feel great during and felt worse after. I still rode for another hour but it was kind of slow. I am on a rest week, even though I am racing this weekend, but I was hoping to feel better today. Sometimes I wonder if it is perception. You don't really have a guage when you are by yourself. I'm not going to worry about it, instead I will enjoy not doing hill repeats and intervals this week.

thanks for reading
Buddy

therealjoeythompson on the left showing us how to conduct, but fatmarc on the right was the maestro.Posted by Hello

Epic Ride, Epic Day

Let's start with the Epic ride. Ten of us headed out of fatmrc's house to do a four park ride. The plan was Fairhill - Carpenter - White Clay - Middle Run - The Judge, getting back was a different story. Marc had the loop in his head and laid down a good steady pace. The trails were great and we were having a good time. It was a great group with; fatmarc.com, therealjoeythompson, Slick Rick, Andrew, Ted Logic, James, Fitzy, John Cleary, Kurtee, and myself. Everybody was riding well, John did stack a couple of times but he was OK. We had a couple of flats, Andrew had one while we were getting a water refill, and somehow Kurtee triple flatted, front, rear, and spare tube.

The triple flat
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We made our way to the judge then realized we were a long way from home. Marc plotted a course that was about as direct as possible and we were off. For most of this ride I was feeling good, then at about 2:45 in I started hitting the wall. I would have little bursts of energy but they weren't much. It was an awesome ride, it was cool to have Joey riding with us and it was aweful nice of him to take it easy on us.


My didn't end with the ride. Marc was kind enough to let me shower at his place so I could go to the Fair Hill Steeple Chase races. Rachael's boss gave us there VIP passes so it was all free and we had good parking and great seats. I met up with Rachale and her friend Karen, but not until after I found out I couldn't bring bottles into thre stands. I could pour my beer into a cup and take it in but no botlles. I left my cooler outside the gate and made a few trips back and forth for refills. We were enjoying the day, nice weather cool races, it was fun. Then the sky turned black and opened up. We found shelter and waited until the worst was over then went home.

That night we met up my friends Jeff and Alana. They just bought an awesome house in Avondale, so we decided to show them a nice retuarant in the area. We hit the Half Moon. Always good food and always good beer. After we went to see the new digs, a really sweet place, they seem excited and it will be cool having them only 10 -15 minutes down the road.

Well I hate to cut it short but I must get ready to ride.
Thanks for reading
Buddy