First race of the year was yesterday. In it, I accomplished all of the following:
-knocked the cobwebs off
-raced in the worst conditions ever (5degrees C, rain, 40km/h wind)
-felt really strong on the first run (3:22/k)
-almost got disqualified running out of T1
-killed myself riding 15km/h into the wind
-fell asleep riding 70km/h with the wind
-had the fastest* run split (3:30/k) (I’m disqualifying Kozi due to his multiple all-Canadian running status)
-got absolutely smashed by Sharratt on the bike (although I beat him to the 1200metre mark on the first run)
-got beat by a bunch of junior aged athletes (Fear not: I’ll have my revenge).
-finished 8th overall, 1st in my age-group.
So yeah, good start. As I was leaving the race, I noticed all the expensive bikes. Like, really, really expensive bikes. I started thinking about my bike, and how it makes noise and isn’t all carbon fibre. And I thought that maybe I would ride faster if I bought a $6000 bike. But then I remembered something that Miguel Indurain (5-time winner of the Tour de France) said when he saw the $250,000 bike that Trek/Lance were developing. Four simple words: “don’t forget the legs.”
So I’ll go with that. My legs vs. those bikes. We’ll see what happens.
