Finally a good succession of build weeks with good response at Buck Hill. Yet my legs are not steady, yet. One reason:
because my 10 year old whooped me good Friday night. So I'll recap why I
went to bed at 5:00AM Saturday morning, a little Red Wing race re-cap too.
FRIDAY NIGHT blur into SATURDAY: After 2 mellow laps at Leb Friday, feeling Bucked, it was time to take Leo with 2 of his friends to the Twins game (all three 10 yr olds). Leo's b-day. The 4 of us we're signed up for
Boy Scouts Twins game & Sleep-Over at the Dome! Sounds mellow? Highlights:
- parked car and ate pizza at 7 corners then walked to game
- went into dome turned in sleep over paperwork, found our seats
- peanuts, cotton candy, dome dogs, runny cheese nacho's (race prep foo!!)
- we ran up and down bleachers to the nose bleed seats multiple times
- the twins won, hurrah, ya yaw YAWN
- upon exiting the dome at 10pm to get our sleeping bags i realized no car key
- walked back to restuarant, no keys, called amy, called again, no answer
- purchased screwdriver & wire stemed rose. Broke into mini-van
- with sleeping bags out of van, drank energy drink headed back to the dome
- um yeah, 500boys300 parents, astroturf, screaming kids, moonwalks
- pillow fights w/literally 100+ boy scouts (it was surrealistic pillow)
- boys were running like freaks even after lights we're dimmed at 2:45AM
- picture kazillon boys jumping over sleeping parents at 2:00AM, evil
- CAOUS, lights went full on again at 3:45AM nobody sleeping, grumpy parents, filling out with kids
- We left at 4:00AM & per vote to Perkins, pukins pukins was the cheer!
- Yep me & 3 little dudes got some strange looks at Perkins at 4:30AM
- Ah Sleep 5:00AM-9:00AM then project prep & met w/classmates at 10:00AM
- Saturday mow lawn, built 1x9, race packing, clean for family party (Leo!).
- Later, Saturday night before race, up until midnight doing homework.
THE RACE: My Dad did Citizen and Duncan did Sport. So great to cheer them on. I took pictures. Duncan did stairay twice! Nice work. I decided to go with 1x9 as SS just seemed like too much after the last few build weeks. I went into this race beat!!!! Off the start I felt heavey. Lap one suffered to hold my percieved logical spot. Lap 2 started feeling good, but it didn't last. Lap 3 & 4 it was big time suffer. I just told myself just ride and enjoy the trail. That worked for a while. Then electrical shocks reminded me to suffer. It was fun racing with Barry, Tim, Todd, Devin and Tom but it wasn't my day. Cody did well on SS for his first expert go. I kept him behind while suffering. On the 4th time up stairway I passed Tom. Looked like he was all set and geting back on his bike. Sure enough he passed at the top and lost me in the quarry. 15th overall on a bad day.
The important thing is Leo had a b-day night he won't forget for a long while. I won't. The first time out with 1x9 a success. Although legs coming around, SS would have brought me down hard this race. The homework is done. Carry on.
Putt Putt golf, more hikes & a 7 mi MTB loop at Tsali Rec area. Yep 1 of 4 loops at Tsali. Good stuff. We took the kids on said MTB loop then I screamed a painful hot lap on my own. Having a good time doing my best to not think about work, school & bills.
Another 2.5 hrs on SS near 4,500ft of climbing this AM. Toasted. Climbing for over an hour straight on ss is hella good times. As is 45mph downhills. Climbing back up our cabin road is brutal; 800ft el gain, steeper than anything for 20min of ss pain. The grade is 15-45? See you at Buck for a recovery race.
