What can I say? I had an amazing race. My original thought was to again just soft pedal the first lap to save my back. But as we lined up to start, I thought to myself: fuck it. I’m racing. I wasn’t even last coming to the first corner and managed to not be last the whole [...][...]
Short Track, Chris King, and Wrenching
A week ago was my second short track race of the season, and I changed my strategy, with my focus being on a back-pain-free race. So I essentially soft pedaled my first lap, sitting in the back, actually wishing the couple of people in front of me would go faster on the technical sections, that [...[...]
Back in the groove
After short track, I rode downtown and home Wednesday-Friday, I rode out to Forest Park, rode at a hard pace (for me) for 2 hours, rode home; rode 2 hours in the west hills on Saturday and then did some mountain biking on Hood on Sunday. And now it’s short track day [...][...]
Race Report (!) – Short Track
I started getting nervous about racing around 4:30pm, even though I knew that I would not be able to give my best effort. I would probably be nervous going over anything vaguely technical, I am out of racing shape and it would be my first short track as a cat 1. I figured there was [...][...]
July 19th, 2010 - 9:50 am § in Injury, Spinal Injury
Back pain; or How I’m trying not to become a junkie
So I rode Larch, and then went to Sandy on Sunday, and overall I’d say my back is doing pretty darn well on the bike, considering. However, cooking/dish-washing and sleeping are still extremely painful. I wake up every morning after about 5 or 6 hours of sleep in pain, and I spend the rest of [...]
July 17th, 2010 - 9:26 pm § in Ride Reports
Larch Mountain made my junk numb
While not totally back to normal, I actually did quite a lot of workouts this week; did a hard ride on Wednesday, did my own version of Tedder’s strength class Tuesday/Thursday, and then today. Oh today. I haven’t been so completely wiped out from a ride since I started riding bikes way [...]
