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Its funny how the body works. Warming up today my legs felt like ass. Inside I smiling because I know from experience that bad warm up usually means good race. This was my last really hard training week before Nationals so the sore legs were not a total suprise. I was feeling pretty tough about all the intervals I did on my trainer until I saw DrX out riding the other day. A quick look at my cars thermometer, 29. Yeah, thats tough. Then yesterday my friend Abby came over for a trainer session in my basement (always nice to have some company). I made it 1:15, she rode 1:45 less than 3 weeks after surgery. Tough.
So back to the race. The course was slick as snot on a doorknob, lots of ice and snow. My kind of course. Ohran told me that people were talking about who would do well today and no one mentioned my name which fired me up a bit. I actually got a decent start today which was nice. Pietrzak stacked it hard on the 1st or 2nd lap, (I had a feeling I would be seeing him again) and by the end of the 2nd lap I was in 2nd place. When I have the legs I like to drive it and go it alone. My best finishes always come when I race this way. Thanks to the great announcing by Sandy and Gardie I always knew what was going on in front and behind me during the race. Bart was gone and Pietrzak was chasing me down. At the start of the last lap I could here on the PA that I had 8 seconds on Pietrzak. Damn this is gonna hurt. I stuck to my plan and kept it smooth in the turns and tried to get back up to speed quick. It was so slick I was afraid to look back. I knew if I got over the last barriers first it would be next to impossible for him to come around me. Luckily I kept it upright and did just that. Now I am prone on the couch watching X-Men 3, sipping a Lev, and letting 800mg of Vitamin I do its magic. I wonder what Sly is doing right now…
Thanks for the notes about Sampson too.
