Training Log Archive: acjospe

First part of the Bikes for Bovines race. Starts with a 6 mile uphill, and I was surprising myself by climbing really well, with some people I normally can't hang with. Using the sports psychology stuff - I love hills! I'm good at hills! Maybe it did work. Anyway, went over a sharp rock on the uphill at about 3 miles, and this put a small hole in my tire and developed a slow leak in the tube, so it was going kind of squishy. For a while I told myself I was making it up, but then there was a short downhill and it was definitely a little too low to ride. So I changed the tube with my spare, but I think I got some mud in there, because shortly thereafter I noticed this one going squishy. I only had one CO2, because I don't have a small pump, and I'd used it up, so I just kept riding the squishy tube, until an innocent-looking grassy downhill that was hiding a sharp rock that gave me a pinch flat and a dented rim. Game over. This was an expensive day...

Walking/jogging the bike out to the aid station at 8 miles and then putting enough air in the slow leak tube to get me down the mountain and back to the start. Plus 20min warmup. Then I packed up and drove to Rochester.