The weather is finally breaking, and I got a chance to ditch the gloves and long sleeves this morning. In recent years I've learned to love long runs. They give you time to really focus on your training, listen to what your body is telling you, zone out, whatever you choose. Today was tough though; pretty much a slog right from the start. I keep telling myself that these are the important runs to get through though because training tired is critical to get you through miles 20-24 in the marathon. You need to have bad days occasionally in order to enjoy the good ones, and I had a great 13mi progression run on Wed. I live for those, so the odd slog-run is ok.
On the flipside, I got the most awesome email today from someone I met a few weeks back when I picked up a trailer for my now race bike! Frank races sidecars. Yes, you read right, sidecars. They even have those in the US? The only time that I usually get to see sidecar action is watching the Isle of Man TT every year. Well, apparently I'm going to get far more acquainted with them, because he's asked me to race rear with him this year! Hell fucking yeah! I have no idea what I'm getting myself into but it sounds like a riot! So with a spot of luck, I'll get to race the RC later this year, but April 25 & 26, I'll be on the back of this beast at the Streets of Willow. The sweet thing about this is that you get to split the cost instead of going it alone, so two days of racing as well as practice and I'll only be out half the cost of what it would be to race my bike solo. Nice!
Over the next few weeks I'm going to put together a doc. on the rebuild of my machine from the past few months because it's starting to come together nicely. For now though check out the folowing link and pics.
http://www.team-excalibur.us/
Have a great weekend,
J
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