28 Jul 2008

Well we headed out to Lysterfield for the 3rd AES round yesterday, with no idea what we were in for. With a bit of a mess up, someone sleeping in, and some bad directions from me, we arrived rather late and rushed through a warm up. Far too soon I found myself on the start line, taking up a position at the high end. For the first time in the series I managed a decent start, and found myself in the lead group going onto Blair Witch trail. The ground was really nice and tacky, with barely a puddle to be seen, and I was feeling good. We came out the bottom and the group had split, with Paulie and Jimmy gapping the rest of us off the front. I put an effort in and moved from last up to be sitting up on Paul’s wheel… and it all went to shit. We hit Buckle trail and a complete mud fest, and my legs went on strike and totally refused to put anymore power out.

Brett promptly went out and made me look like the gumby I am, coming in two minutes faster. So the day continued, I did a rather wet and miserable double before Snozza took pity on us and changed the course to remove the most disgusting sections. My enthusiasm slowly returned and I finally got a lap time I wasn’t too embarrassed about, although Brett had the indecency to storm out the 3rd fastest lap of the day before hand so I still came out looking slow. We finished up the day in 5th place, a minute behind Yeti. I might have to abandon my serious training program and switch to Brett’s diet of beer and two short rides a week, it seems to work a lot better! One round to go, maybe I can redeem myself and see if we can sneak in at least one podium finish.

Posted by erin @ 10:57 am

2 Responses to “Anaconda Enduro Series #3”

1. thylacine Says:
   July 28th, 2008 at 11:42 pm

   You mean beer isn’t the perfect cycling ‘food’?

2. erin Says:
   July 29th, 2008 at 10:55 am

   Well I’ve heard you’re supposed to carbo load, so maybe it is!

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