Looks like I missed posting about Astoria weekend as well as the PIR cross crusade race. I wonder why I didn’t feel particularly motivated to post…oh yeah.
All three races sucked. Bad.
I felt like I had been through the meat grinder during the Saturday Astoria race. Every hill was a challenge, I quiet simply felt terrible. Sunday was actually fun, all of the Hammer Velo girls sat in the back of the race and did our french maid routine. PIR was another complete disaster, resulting in my worst placing of the entire season as a B. And I actually felt good, too. The mud was so insane, I just played it safe. People were going head over bars left and right, and I just poked along, mid pack, but without crashing.
And to be quite honest, that might be my last race of the season. Why? I’m not one to give up because I placed poorly. No, it’s because my knees are fucking killing me. Even just sitting here, if I touch my knee cap it hurts. They hurt on the bike, especially on the run ups and over barriers. They hurt walking, on the elliptical, going up or down stairs, sitting in a chair, hell if I think about them too much they hurt. What.The.Fuck. I even took a rest week last week, I skipped intervals last night, I have been doing very little other then eating pumpkin pie. And they’re only getting worse. Am I allergic to something? Like, oh I don’t know, air???
This is unspeakably frustrating. I don’t feel like I’ve been training very much, so I find it hard to believe I’m overdoing much of anything (except maybe pumpkin pie). I’m going to spend the next few days icing and foam rolling like a mad woman and see what happens. Looks like yet another trip to the PT might be in order (oh joy). The only thing I haven’t been doing that I used to do is yoga: Every. Single. Day. I’ve been just doing one long session a week, but apparently that’s just not enough.
Seriously?
