HERE WE GO AGAIN!

Let me just say that I am starting this blog back up for the 2013 cycling season only because my good friend Christine is in Finland for work and has her own blog I have been reading about her work/travels. You can check it out HERE. OK! this Saturday marks the beginning of my 2013 cycling season, and let me tell you my off season training has not gone to planned at all! For starters after my first cat 3/4 race in Albany last year, I had a awful pain in my leg a few days after the race. As the head strong cyclist I am I thought it was nothing and ignored it. Days and weeks went and it was still bothering me, so I decided to head to the doctor. He took x rays and the first thing he told me was "OK so you don't have a tumor ". WHAT THE FUCK!? a tumor that caught me off guard but I digress. He basically said I have a strained hamstring and I had to stay off my bike for six weeks.........easier said than done fucker. All I could do during the last few weeks of nice weather in 2012 was swim in the stank ass pool at golds gym. I just want to say right now that swimming laps sucks more than being on a indoor trainer! but not to worry, I pissed in the pool on my way out of it on more than five occasions. And not to backtrack, but this is the only good thing that came out of that 3/4 race that most definitely caused my strained hamstring.

                                                  ( third to last place never looked so good )

Well onto 2013 and I am healed up as best as I can be, and right from January on I have been on the road training while most people have been on their indoor trainers. I have to admit that yes I was afraid to be on the road in the 20 degree temps last winter but enough was enough and I took snookie out on the nasty salt roads in 2013 with my two training partners. Tom and Bill, who are pretty much the only people I ride with and are some tough motherfuckers! 50, 60 miles in the sub zero temps! hard as nails. And I didn't mention that the first ride we all had together in 2013 was Bills first since a full knee replacement. three weeks and hes back on the bike!

                                       (the fellas! From right Tom, Bill and my wuss ass)            
Now its March and were still getting fucking Armageddon snowstorms but I have managed to get a few 40+ mile rides in before March 23 which is my first race! The Johnny Cake RR. I am now a cat 4 racer which pretty much means longer races that are a little faster and when we crest the top of a climb the pace picks up instead of slows down.  The johnny cake race is a 12 mile rolling loop that we do like four times. I won the race when I was a cat 5 a few years ago. This year the cat 3/4 race is 48 miles and its supposed to be around 43 degrees when we roll out at 11AM. I have had some decent training and I think I am as ready as I can be. The plan is to just stay in the group and try not to get dropped, because I know there will be some strava freaks who are in top shape with a team of like fucking 5 people pulling at 30+mph right from the start...........assholes. But regardless I am happy to see all the familiar faces and get back in the peloton! I will try to take some pictures of the trip up and the pre and post race antics with my phone and write a post race report. I guess that's it for now because my ass hurts from sitting and I have no more pictures to post. until next time..... Rubber side down!

                                                 
                                                       My friends dog Bella approves!