… OR not so much. Wearing race #13 this past weekend wasn’t very lucky at the Sooke Pro Chase event. A very cool event that I was really looking forward to. It was going to be fun racing and being ‘chased’, but more than anything I just wanted to put in a good effort and have a solid race. Simply race smart, race hard and see how it goes. I just wanted a decent race … buuut I guess that’ll have to wait until the next one : (
It started off with a solid swim (finally and yay improvement!) that had me come out with the lead pack of 3 with Tenille and Allison. On to the bike I was ready to giv’er …. however it only lasted about 10min as I had some bike issues (worn out chain and front chain ring not a good mix with fairly new cassette on race wheels and not good for shifting … lesson learned!) that had me climbing out of the saddle hard and then ’friendly’ with the road and not being able to get the chain back on (it somehow twisted on itself?!). UGH! I so badly just wanted to continue racing…. but it wasn’t going to happen so that was it. game over.
‘Vacation’ is now over and its been back to the real world. Despite not quite ending the way I wanted to and feeling a little down and defeated I know I can’t let the race shadow the positives from this past week … I had a great training camp led by Coach Lance and Bjoern. Training with superstars Amanda, Rachel, Sara and Brent along with Laura, Nathan, Elliot, Jon and Andrew was awesome!
This camp felt similar to the one I did in Noosa in March so in a way it wasn’t a huge shocker when we were thrown some tough workouts after already long training days like 15 x 200m best avg swims or an hour tempo brick run after 3hrs on the bike or solid 800′s on the track for a double run day, and so on.
I think there must be something sadistic with me or something because as grueling as it was, it was fun and my kind of ‘vacation’, hehe. And there were some grueling workouts that weren’t super fun, but knowing that it will be rewarded later made it worth it! It also helped that everyday was pretty much sunny and perfect weather!
Anyways, a couple weeks to recover and recharge to get ready to ROCK IT in Kelowna at Elite Nationals!
Mmmm the BEST sandwiches from the Red Barn Market! Marble Rye with turkey and the works : )
