Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
I’ve had some sort of head cold for the past few days. Loaded myself up with some SudaFed and headed out to the NJ Rando Season Opener anyway.
Got there late and left well after the group. Despite my head feeling weird, legs were on point and I went through almost the entire field before C2.
There I linked up with Derek and we rode the next 20ish miles together. We made a bonus stop at Quick Stop because he had never been and the route went within a block.
Topped off my bottles because we didn’t stop at C2.
Somewhere along Ocean Ave Derek popped off my wheel. I sat up for a bit but he was gone so I just continued on.
Derek caught back up as I was leaving C3, he wasn’t interested in sitting on my wheel anymore and stopped to actually eat. Being I’m all in with Maurten there’s no need for such things.
There was a small group ahead of us by a few minutes and I set off to chase the group.
Went pretty deep into a monster headwind and eventually figured I wasn’t going to make up ground solo and backed way off. That wind for the last 50 miles was pretty demoralizing to say the least. Somewhere in there my SudaFed also wore off and I immediately felt sick again.
Thankfully I put in a hard enough effort on the front end to still run a somewhat decent time, albeit about an hour off my course record…
Got there late and left well after the group. Despite my head feeling weird, legs were on point and I went through almost the entire field before C2.
There I linked up with Derek and we rode the next 20ish miles together. We made a bonus stop at Quick Stop because he had never been and the route went within a block.
Topped off my bottles because we didn’t stop at C2.
Somewhere along Ocean Ave Derek popped off my wheel. I sat up for a bit but he was gone so I just continued on.
Derek caught back up as I was leaving C3, he wasn’t interested in sitting on my wheel anymore and stopped to actually eat. Being I’m all in with Maurten there’s no need for such things.
There was a small group ahead of us by a few minutes and I set off to chase the group.
Went pretty deep into a monster headwind and eventually figured I wasn’t going to make up ground solo and backed way off. That wind for the last 50 miles was pretty demoralizing to say the least. Somewhere in there my SudaFed also wore off and I immediately felt sick again.
Thankfully I put in a hard enough effort on the front end to still run a somewhat decent time, albeit about an hour off my course record…
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