Brutal!

This weekend was slightly insane. It officially started at 11 p.m. Thursday night when I got out of work. Friday I woke up early, spun my legs out, cleaned my bike, packed and then we drove 7 hours up to Marquette (The upper peninsula is so far away from where we live that it's about the same distance as the 12 hour race I did in Wisconsin!) Saturday was a pretty full day with the race and awards, and then Sunday we had to wake up early, drive home, and then I immediately went into work until 2 a.m.

I feel like I got some really good 24 hour race training in there!!! It's nice to know that I can still function on little sleep :-)

I'll post a race report later, but sadly it isn't too exciting. I went into it with tired legs and finished 2nd in my age group and 7th overall of about 70 female finishers. For most of the race I was riding in a top 5 spot but managed to make a few really dumb, tactical errors. Last night my poor manager had to listen to me keep replaying some of the dumb things that I did...over and over again. And at one point she found me hitting my head against the wall. Ha ha.

Next time I need to do a few XC races before Ore to Shore, along with a group ride or two!

More on the race and pictures in a few hours. This was Naomi's first long trip, so expect to see a "few" greyhound pictures!