Saturday, August 11, 2012

No news is..... not so good news...

Long time between posts - 3 things in bike world happend since the last entry.

1) The 6 hour back2back race 1 was craaaappppppppppppppp.

Lets set the scene... 6 hours in the race with each lap being around 6.7km long with a ton of climbing. For me, a 'fast' lap is is about 23-25 mins, a 'steady' lap is spot on 30mins, and a 'all day dean' lap is about 32-35mins. That meant to do the 13 laps I wanted, I need a couple of fast laps and the rest fairly steady.

The first 3 laps were great! I felt awesome and was somewhere up the front end of the field in the solo catagory. I was spinning around with Owen from the rats club and we were moving pretty solid. Got to the pits and had given myself about a 15min window of 'free time'. I slowed things down on lap 4 and tried to get down to 'all day Dean' pace. By the end of the lap however, I was dizzy and legs felt heavy. Unsure what was wrong I came through the pits and felt like quitting. What a crap feeling! Dave and his son Willy rocked up for motivation both verbally and through a sausage on bread... Nice!

Felt good afterwoods but after 2x laps of 45mins each, I was out of the running for my top 10 finish. I ended up with 10 laps altogether with finishing position of 26th.

Dave took some great photo's which I have stolen :)





2) Now... number 2 thing that happend in cycling world actually stems from #1. On the last or second last I had a really big over the bars. I thought nothing of this and continued on during the race. I noticed some pretty big bruising all over a couple of days later. The weekend after the race, I had a big fall in Cornubia and hit alot of the same parts I smashed in the first crash.

Next couple of days I had some chest pain and couldn't sleep at all. Turns out cracked rib!!!!!!!!!!! Greaaaat!!! Not to worry though, a week off the bike and I feel ok now. In fact, I managed 11 laps of Mt Gravatt this week too and no pain. It seems to be at it's worst when i'm lying down (sleeping) or in the car. On the bike, it feels ok. Gah!

3) My relevate designs gear rocked up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No photo's of the actual stuff, but I got:


Seatbag glory!

The front thingo for holding sleeping gear
REALLY looking forward to trying it out. I have almost all the gear sorted now so will make a post explaining all of it soon.

Epic soon! - That's the next race. Enjoy!