09/15/12 harvest hammer

hey!! woke up this morning 6:30 am ate a bowl of frosted flakes, filled water bottle, tom came over and out the door we went :) i was a little nervous about the race having a low volume of training coming into this race.  7:20am, signed up temps hovering around low 60s, got in a quick jog, stretched, put race bib on, heart rate mointer working.  whatched the little kids race, man those kids can run. 

9am race time! gun went off settled in a comfortable pace, a little sore in the hamstrings, but otherwise ran great. 20 minutes 15 secs, the transition was quick, jumped on the bike and was off first hill just about killed me. not good struggled on the back side, mile 5 the first cramp hit!! i thought i was gonna die! decided right then it was going to be a fight to the death, a fast group cought me at mile 6, we formed a quick paceline a started to eat up the competition, wish i could have stuck with these guys but cramps overcame me . lost them at the hill again mile 10ish i think. rode solo the rest of the race, between the cramps and the ticking noise from my derailer i was about to quit but quiting is not in my vocab. finished the bike in 1 hour 3 minutes and 08 secs, i was really impressed with these as it being a hilly course and low miles on the bike. total time was 1 hour 23 minutes 22 seconds. beat my last years time of 1 hour 27 minutes.  well i now know what i have to do to log a 20 mile ride under a hour.well until next time !!!