I've been playing around with the idea of doing a XC race this weekend for training, but I've nixed that idea after today's ride. No racing for me. I'm sticking to my coaches initial plan for some good old tempo intervals.
My legs are completely shot. Lately Andy has me doing a lot of steady state intervals where I'm riding at the top end of my threshold. I will be the first to admit that I completely suck at these intervals. Clearly I need to keep doing them and hopefully one day I can make it through a workout without exploding. Yesterday Scott and I were watching the tour after my workout and they showed post race footage of some of the riders cramping after they crossed the finish line. I stood up to go get something and guess what happened? My legs were one big cramp. Scott thought that I was being dramatic but that was not the case at all. I think my legs were just full on revolting against me :-)
Today was supposed to be a recovery ride but it was my mom's birthday and she wanted to go for a ride. I'm not sure exactly what happened but I ended up riding for close to 4 hours. This is the main reason why I'm not racing tomorrow. There is no point for driving a total of 5 hours to race 28 miles with tired legs. It would take me all day to finish...probably. Instead I plan on sleeping in, going to the farmer's market, walking Ben, and then doing my tempo intervals with a small detour to the mountain bike trail after. It sounds like a really good day to me!
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