Ah so another day and another experience. I woke up today feeling like I was run over by a train, I mean literally my knees were fuct!!! After a bit I started to feel OK and after a mocha from the coffee shop I was ready to roll. Me and Luke were meeting at Water Street Coffee Shop on Oakland at noon, but I received a call from DA (who turned 21 last night) to come and see something real quick, and as I had time to spare I flipped around and headed down Howard St. to meet up with him for a minute. Total waste of my time to go meet him, but I still beat Luke to the Coffee Shop anyways, so all was good. Luke finally got his team bike in and it was nice to see him out on it . We then waited another 10 minutes for Jeff, but left and he met up with us down the road. We rode a nice little 2 hour loop out in the country and it felt good. When I got back and unclipped I felt how bad my knee really is. I almost could not get my leg over my bike, which is scary. I never get sore, so I know something is seriously wrong. Time to be cautious and go easy for a few days. Although I am racing Wednesday at Grattan raceway in Grand Rapids, then Saturday and Sunday in Indiana, and Monday in Chicago. So 4 races in 6 days will be even better for the knee. I have never done the Wednesday night race in Grand Rapids, but The Ada-Alltel boys asked me to come up so we can try a few things. Here is what I am going to try......attack as much as I can. It is a training race, so I will get some good training out of it. Then Saturday and Sunday should be fun, as The Great Race in Elkhart is always fast, especially the criterium which is a wide open 4 corner crit. Then Monday is a holiday and I am doing the Pro Quad Cities race. So I am really busy this week with all of that and working 32 hours also. One final note, Jeff and I were kicking ourselves today for not just attacking the group we were in with about 3-5 miles to go. He said if me and him would have just attacked them we could have held the peloton off together and we could have split the money after the race. Thinking about it we really should have, but that is bike racing, you have to be strong, but sometimes smarts wins out over strength. Next time I am in a break away that is not working together I am just going to hammer away and go alone if I have to. Ok time for some rest and then some Giro watching, then work. Later all.
Wednesday- 1 Hour 15 Minutes very easy. Knee really sore today.
Thursday- 2 Hours 30 Minutes. Really windy, knee starting to feel a bit better.
Friday- 1 Hour 45 Minute Pre race ride.
Saturday- 30 Minute Warm-up, Kensington Race- 2 Hours 45 Minutes, 30 Minute Cool-down
Saturday- 2 Hours 30 Minutes Post Race ride to clear the Lactic Acid out of the legs.
Sunday- 2 Hours 30 Minutes, nice ride with Luke and Jeff.
Week Total- 19 Hours 45 Minutes
Race Notes- Be smarter in breakaways and work on my jumps. All in all though a very good race.
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