Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Mo Racin'

It's been a month of more racing since I've posted anything. The most interesting race was CSI International, racing with 70 or 90 other racers was a great experience and a lot of fun.

The first day course featured a good long stretch followed by a very steep rooty run up. I had a descent start passed a lot of guys on the run up and then did a twisty section full of roots on the top portion of Look Park. I rode this section like shit every lap. Just couldn't get it at all. The bottom section and the up and down was fine.

I started row 8 so in the 60s and made it up to 36th.

Aly had a great race, starting in the 50s and made it up to 23rd overall, passing groups of riders each lap until she was sort of in no man's land on the last lap.

The second day I felt I had an even better start and rode well, no bobbles and had a hard, fast ride. It was harder to pass for me for some reason and I was around 29th but faded to 42 by the end.

Out of the month my best race was Parma, in Rochester. I just felt I had a really good ride.

In the middle of this I had a work problem to resolve that kept me off the bike to any great degree, this of course didn't help but I'm getting back in the groove a bit better now. I've been doing weights and some spin classes too, it's harder to put in hours on the bike this time of year.

The Romp in the Swamp this year was the muddiest race I've ever done. It took three washings to get the clothes clean.

All in all it's been a busy few weeks. I'm back developing the stuff I want to get done. I'm testing my virtual if/extract engine and re-writing some of the instructions to use less assemble and use higher level c code to be more portable and to get ride of as many endian issues as I can.

Coming up we have our first weekend off from racing since about September 11. So club rides and dinner out Saturday night and Club dinner on Sunday.

In terms of racing the next race is Albion / Angry Johnny's version on the 27th. I'm planning on giving it a real go in Master 2. My plan this year is to not really take any time off, but keep riding in some form or another and continue to do yoga and weights thru the winter months.

Anyway time for a ride in the dark and then weights at the Y.