Yeah, I guess it is…it’s already halfway done.

It’s raining outside. It has been raining for a day or so now. I am researching fenders. Apparently I’m going to have to train in the rain at some point. Hamblen would not approve.

I raced yesterday…ish. I got a great start, but was blown away through the turns for the first few laps and what was a great start became a bad first few minutes, and then the race was basically over. A group I was in got lapped maybe a third of the way through the race. There were like 15 finishers out of 70. Crazy course. Never seen anything like it. Loved it though. I really should have done a couple of extra practice laps, because I got the turns down after a few race laps… Cobbles are so so so slippery in the wet. I mean, I knew that, but it was another thing entirely to feel my rear wheel go slip slip slippin through every turn. Ah well, I pretty much sucked, and my team told me so afterwards and they told me they want to end their ‘relationship’ with me, so yeah, there’s that. I have oh so much to say on the topic, but we’ll save that for a less frustrated day.

I’m going to work it out with some help from my friends, get my shit together, get some fenders, and get back to basics, and come next season, it’ll be just fine. I’m going to have to pick and choose on races, cuz it’s going to be expensive taking the train everywhere, but that’ll ensure that I’m 100% for every race – mentally and physically and all that stuff.

I want to race my bike dammit. I’ve got so much more to do, and I will.

Back to Vuelta work on PEZ.