4-3-2-1

Workouts remaining to Nationals are winding down. Its funny how a 36 degree day with a NW breeze blowing but the sun shining becomes a great training day. Scheduled participants...Craigio, Matt T, & Coach KB. On tap...3 intervals. 4 lapper, 3 lapper, then 2. For me, this means a 19 minute something, 14 something, then 9 something. Should hurt sufficiently with short recoveries in between. Coach missed round 1 but suggested we add a longer road drag strip start to mimic the flat, long start at Natz. OK, this should be even harder. Cool. It was, redlining it as we enter the top secret training grounds for our circuits. During the final lap of the 2 lapper I could start to feel the fatigue set in. I took out one of the barriers, not hard to to do with it being a jumble of piled up branches, over shot a couple corners, and wandered out of the line a few times. Still managed a respectable time. In true Coach fashion, he starts rolling over to the start area for a 1 lap set we hadn't been planning on. We all managed to grind it out & called it a day.

Matt, Craigio, & myself are heading down Wednesday in the Trek Store Sprinter loaded up with all our bikes & gear. Matt & my wife are coming down Thursday morning loaded up with essential home made snacks for 4 days in a hotel. Snacks list preview...Ranch Oyster crackers, Ranch Spicy Pretzels, Cookies, Cocoa Puff/Rice Krispie Bars. All critical to our success. My parents are making the trip this year from CO & are also arriving Wednesday for a couple day stay to see me race.

Weather outlook...depends on where you look, but I'm seeing Monday/Tuesday as the set-up for a potentially wet weekend. Some form of precip scheduled for those days. Whatever, bring it on.

Have a great day! Supposed to be 41 here today, breezy, partly cloudy. Awesome!

Later,

TK