Zirin reminded me of important event that happened on this date 40 years ago. Fists for freedom.
Kenneth Williams called me today, and I'm thinking biceps for freedom. The dude is going to champ Natural Olympia, November 8th in San Francisco. Is anyone going to watch with me?
I have two cross races under my belt so far this season. The first was weekend before last at the Juvenile Correction Facility in Golden. I kid you not, there is such a facility, and it has a sweet cross course made of mostly singletrack, and hella bumpy. I missed racing the weekend before that due to sickness, so I didn't get a call up. It didn't go as well as I had hoped. I ended up second to last in the 1-2s. I think I was 14th. Of course it was the first race I've done for a while due to work commitments, so I was happy to get back into the swing of it.
I want to personally thank Alex Hershaft for inviting me and OA Pro-Activists Jeremy Moore and Robert Cheeke. The AR Conference is an opportunity for AR activities to come together annually and share success stories, challenges and strategies. Over the years Alex has increasingly added nutrion/health and environmental-related information and the addition of high level athletes only boosts this strategy. I personally look forward to attending again in the future as I learned an incredible amount just that weekend.
I raced the Boulder Road Race, today. I haven't done a Road Race that was just pavement in I think, five years or so. I've done things like the Boulder Roubaix, and the Koppenburg, which are part road/ part dirt... but yeah, it's been a long time since I did a road race.
So I attached myself to my drops, today, and got out there after work, barely making it to the crit before the start... number pinned to the wrong side... way cool.
I did a couple of races this weekend. The first on Saturday, was a circuit race at the Fed Center. I didn't get in much of a warm up lap, but got in a good 20 min warm up before the race. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, too, because I have work, an internship, and class during the week. So, alas, that was as much of a warm up as I could afford. In a perfect world, I would have more time for such things.
So I am late in race reporting this, because I've been unusually sick with some sort of bronchial virus, and on vacation. But anyways, I did race the Mt. Evans Hill Climb last week. This was kind of a disappointing event for me, because I was really sick, and not feeling well at ALL. I have been mostly climbing this spring/ summer, with some mtn biking and short track thrown in for fun on Wednesday nights.... but just for fun.... no time to take short track very seriously.
Climb every Mountain...follow every stream... la...la... la... follow every rainbow, until you find your dream! I've been doing a lot of this, recently. I signed myself up for my third HC in three weeks last Friday. I don't know if this was a good maneuver, but it sounded like fun. 4018 ft of climbing, 18.5 miles, my road bike, and me!
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