Monday, June 1, 2009

Fuck your three minutes and it was wrecking balls fault!!!



My Current favorite song. It gets me motivated and flows so good!

This weekend was another frustrating fuck up! The race initially started off well, I was fifth going into the woods and and right behind silk, which is where i wanted to be. I settled in and was actually thinking damn this pace is easy and I might have a good day. We get to the first road and a guy attacks I slowly react and role pass a couple people and join the leader still breathing very easily. The next section of trail describes my whole year on the bike. I go from being one of the elite in the group, to eating shit. So I crashed and went from third to second to last place! I compose myself and get back on the bike and Silk who had some issues, start off again after the group. We pick three or four off before I let Silk go by me. I was kinda suffering from starting to hard after crashing so I let silk go after it and i tried to recover and somewhat keep silk in sight and hopefully close for the road. I realize that I am doing more damage by trying to keep up with silks pace. So I ease up and try to form my own steady pace. I get to the road with the climb and am still trying to recover. I get passed by three 30 plus experts and then my legs clicked in to gear again. I started feeling good and I was starting to reel people in slowly but like the last couple months something else goes wrong. I fucking flat three corner after blood rock. I try to relax and fix the flat quickly but it wasn't a stellar fix. BY this time I am fucking light years behind anybody in my class. I get back on the bike and feel like shit and almost hurled from some odd reason. I can't get back into a rhythm. I come to the finish line and call it game over.

I know its not what I should have done but my motivation was gone. I knew I would get shit for it but i didn't care. There will be other races this year for me and I will finish them. I am not one to dnf a lot and if you look at my 14 years of racing you will notice! so go worry about yourself and shut the fuck up! I know I didn't finish! I wanted to do well and it didn't happen and I was out contention.

Other than my bad luck continuing my weekend was good. I enjoyed being a around everyone for the most part and I definitely enjoyed watching the pro race. It was a wake up call watching it though honestly. I could point out up to ten people that I have raced against and have beat multiple times in my career. Its annoying cause I know i can race with them and beat them if i train. So like almost half of my other blogs I end by saying that I am motivated and motivated to get to where I think I should be. I know I will need to change some aspects of my current life but I know I can do it. No upcoming races anytime soon but I am hoping to put in some good training and be ready to competitive this fall. I expect nothing less than top 5 this fall in cat 1. Anything less will be a failure.

3 comments:

Mingo said...

it sucked to see you out of the race. make those changes. new habits are hard to create.

Human Wrecking Ball said...

I will try to make a better tire choice at your next race. I will also try to keep you from falling over. Sorry I let you down.

BIGWORM said...

Nobody let Little Ball down except Little Ball.

Now that I think about it, you jinxed me, too, WB! It's your fault that I didn't sit up front, drag those guys around by their teeth, and then win! ;-)

Little Ball, you've got a ton of talent, but I'm thinking it's tough to train to be where you want to be, work as much as you do, carry a full load at school, and still enjoy all the things that a guy your age should enjoy. Don't put so much pressure on yourself to be up front right now. If you really want to be efficient with your training time, and still do all of the other stuff that makes being in college great, spend some real time talking to Silk. He really can help, and the fact of the matter is, he enjoys it. In the meantime, enjoy the race you're in, whether it's for first, 12th, last or just to the next yellow sign. If we all bailed when we were not in contention, there would only be one guy finishing each race.

No matter what, your brothers are still your brothers, and I can't wait 'til we go to the next one together!