Bubba # 2 Spanish Lake

Well...not too good of a race for me at Spanish Lake. I'm not sure why I suffered so much on Sunday, but it was bad. I got off to a good start in the race and felt good for the first lap or so. After that though, things quickly went downhill. I was getting passed by what seemed like just about everyone in the race. Darrell and David flew by me, I tried to catch Darrell's wheel as he went by, and did for a couple hundred meters, but he dropped me like a bad habit. I was completely demoralized.

Here I am sucking wind behind the Dust Man.


What led to my poor showing? Beats me. I don't think the course was well suited for my riding style, it was more of a power course. I can't really use this as an excuse though. My lower back did begin to hurt a lot toward the end of the race, but I think it was just a by-product of my suckiness. The only other thing I could think of came a couple of days after the race. I didn't feel like riding hard at all this week and am thinking I might be slightly overtrained. Bummer. This week I avoided ALL intervals and didn't do any hard rides. I still spent several hours on the bike this week doing some 1-2 hour endurance rides, but nothing hard. I even found the opportunity ro ride my MTB bike today. Anyway, I'm hoping things go better this weekend.

Jessie will be going down, along with my parents, and we are going to stop by the Butterfly House before the race this Sunday. It sure would be nice to ride well in front of my fans! We'll see.