Monkey, pleads, "Stay up and watch gymnastics with me!" with a coy smile on her face.
I retort, "Sure, thing but you have to get up with me at 5 to study and take care of the dogs..."
"Good night babe, love you! "Monkey says, with a peck on me cheek dismissing me...
Monkey and I headed out to the Rodale Park Last weekend to pick up another crit. Speed Work, Speed work…
Monk did well, worked well with in her group and was pretty well positioned for the sprint. Her field caught the 35+ women just as they entered the finishing straight on the final lap, and Monk took the “discretion is the better part of valor” route and rolled into the finish with the pack. Pretty proud of what she is doing in the crits the past two weeks. She sums up her experience like this: “terrifying, and so much fun all at once”
My race was really fast, and really hard. I inevitably jumped into the wrong moves, which both times seemed to be followed by moves that stuck. There’s this guy we'll call "W", who my general rule of thumb is to be around him, because he ends up in the right places. Sure enough, just after I failed to bridge to the second group, he jumped from the field and made it across.
I found myself in the main pack, trying to bridge with Kelly, and this dude from Lancaster with good tattoos, but we’d repeatedly get shut down by teams with riders up the road. The good part of that is that we got lots of work jumping. The bad news is that we didn’t make any progress at all. At the end of the day I got some good work in, which was really the point. I gotta say that might have been one of the fastest races I have done. I hope to get back to Rodale again in the future. That was really fun.
We are currently registered for 6 cross races for the fall. It was the race to race right? Now that I’m entered,lets hope I can pull my school schedule together enough to actually make it to the start line.
Cross season, my season of the year.
respect
vanderbacon
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