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hopefully tomorrow brings about a cooler, less foggy am. i'm going to push a little tomorrow am the off friday (forced, need to be in NYC). sat, maybe kvsp, maybe not. who knows
 
Soup - schmoop! You're just making excuses, you lazy arse.

I had a wicked ride last night - beat my loop time by a minute! I think the wind was behind me in all the right spots!
 
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geared, hardtail. sweet...

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Now that looks hawt. I'm already tired of the baby blue version and its not even out yet. Nice upgrade on the tires from last year too.
 
Pretty much nothing.I either need to build from scratch or de-construct a complete.I'mgoing to put my custom 2x9 tranny from the Frankentrek on the Paragon cause I'm certain I'll never ride a 26 again and then have the Paragon painted sometime and wait to get some more fork options............
 
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that's my story from the LMC. i had much higher expectations for myself but having run the first lap three minutes faster than any time i've ever posted there i guess i shouldn't be surprised that i blew up. i wish i knew exactly how fast but with motionbased being simply terrible i can't get my damn data...i'm guessing when i look at my moving time it may be even faster. anyway, about halfway through the second lap my legs started locking up on me. climbing was flat out painful. i wound up walking A LOT. almost threw up twice. everything and anything that could have gone wrong did. i was horribly dehydrated despite going through amost three gallons of water on saturday and my rear derailer wasn't cooperating at all (had i known graveyardman67's secret prior to the race it would have been incredibly helpful 😀). for the first time in i honestly don't know how long i used my granny gear. maybe, just maybe i'll have actually learned my lesson this time with the racing: me and it don't seem to mix. i'm not, however, deterred from doing the darkhorse. if anything i'm going to work harder to make sure i finish that. the best thing that came out of yesterday was getting to see all of the mtbnj folks tearing it up. congrats to all...when motionbased starts cooperating i'll prolly have more to say.
 
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Sorry to hear that Jake. I think you still have a mental block issue hounding you. I used the GG (or GG+1 or +2) several times and just spun up past people who are slogging in gears that are far, far too big for the climbs they're doing. There really are no style points here - GG or the tallest gear you have - that doesn't matter.
 
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Sorry to hear that Jake. I think you still have a mental block issue hounding you. I used the GG (or GG+1 or +2) several times and just spun up past people who are slogging in gears that are far, far too big for the climbs they're doing. There really are no style points here - GG or the tallest gear you have - that doesn't matter.
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meh, whatever. since i'm a headcase the likelyhood of me having some kind of mental issue is high. best i can tell (w/o the benefit of MB) i was a little faster than usual but not much. certainly not enough to get completely blown up the way i did so something else was off.

either way, i'm doing that ride next weekend just to prove to myself i can. no style points awarded then either.
 
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bonefishjake said:
meh, whatever. since i'm a headcase the likelyhood of me having some kind of mental issue is high. best i can tell (w/o the benefit of MB) i was a little faster than usual but not much. certainly not enough to get completely blown up the way i did so something else was off.

either way, i'm doing that ride next weekend just to prove to myself i can. no style points awarded then either.
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Well like I said, riding in the group sucks out a lot more energy than solo. Just the douche bag in front who decides he's going to stop and scratch his ass on the hairpin turn right before the switchbacks and you end up trying to track stand while he slowly gets out of the way. Listen, the class title "sport" is not because biking is a sport, it's actually Latin for "All Douche Bags Race Here". So you put that many douche bags together and the start is a black hole of energy.
 
very true, but i tried not to get involved in that 'herd mentality'.

actually, there was most certainly some mental stuff going on. a coupla things, but for one, i know that park so well from riding that loop the other way that i knew where i could attack, where i had to lay off and where i could cruise. having hardly EVER run that loop in reverse i was pretty thrown. i couldn't pin it down mentally and i spend a good part of the first lap pushing, trying to figure out where that "cruise spot" was. running it the other way, as soon as i got to the top of the switch backs i knew it was all downhill...even though it really isn't.
 
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having hardly EVER run that loop in reverse i was pretty thrown. i couldn't pin it down mentally and i spend a good part of the first lap pushing, trying to figure out where that "cruise spot" was.
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This is why it's good to really know how to listen to yourself, to know when your legs are in a state they can maintain, or not. It's a hard thing to do but it's necessary for when you race somewhere you haven't been before, like Darkhorse or the 50k. The LM loops lull you because you know them too well. I mean you probably know specific roots in LM. I found that following some guys yesterday they would take better lines than I do because I always take the same line! Ok I'm rambling but I don't think going back to LM and running laps again this weekend is going to do you much good.
 
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I think its part mental and part physical.

You are in better shape this year but you really haven't been riding that much the last 6 weeks. You started off really good this year. You really improved. Then, like with most of us. Life hits, you got sick and then traveled the week after that.

I don't know if you post all of your rides on motionbased, but I took a look and you really don't have to many rides over the last 2 months.

If you want to do the dark horse I will do it with you to help pace you through it. Its tough at races. Bike racing to me is a lot like golf. You dont compete against others you compete against your self. If you tried to measure your self against some guys in that class, you cant. The guys winning that class have been riding for 15 years and racing just as long.

Anyways if you want a wheel to sit on and learn how to measure your effort i would be happy to.
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hence my buddy bill. freaking 5 minutes ahead of anyone else. that's just crazy. life has been off with work and travel has been hell. i'm starting a new routine as of tomorrow (when my hangover is gone) that'll put me on the road nice and early most days. but i may take you up on some of this..
 
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