Sunday, May 16, 2010

Sundance Spin Bike Race 2010


Bad ass! The best scenic race of the year, I can't miss that!
The more, the merrier!
.....look how fat I am! I've got to seriously ride more!


This race turned out good except some old injury flared up again. There were a lot of people that showed up at the race and it was sponsored by Mad Dog Cycles so there were a lot of Mad Dog Racers and I myself am a Mad Dog Cycle Racer so I showed up too. There were a few snow banks in some areas but you can get around them all right, just had to get down through the mud. It was mostly tacky which made the trails perfect and made the race fun. I did ok, but surprisenly finished 4th place out of 8 in my class. I always end up at 5 minutes behind the first guy but in order for me to do better, I've got to lose some weight. I am about 30-40 pounds overweight and I've got to lose a little bit more now. I lost a lot last year, about 27 pounds then gained 10 in the winter. If I was maybe 175-180, I'd be a little faster, maybe be at front at least. That would be good, but at least being at 190-200 would be good too but now I am at 218, just 2 pounds under the clydesdale class. Just stay positive and have fun! Ride more and have fun doing it, then everything will turn out. Hopefully.
Speaking of the injury, as I was pedaling in this race, my left knee started to bother me, especially after the race and even more the day after. A few days ago, I did some adjustments on my cleats on my shoes because they were rubbing the chainstays and cranks too much. I adjusted them way outwards of the bike and now my knee is bothering me and I think my right knee is starting to feel a little bit of it too when I went on a walk today. So I changed the cleats back where they were before and see if that works, also I adjusted them forward more to keep the shoes from rubbing the stays and cranks. Reason why they were back too much because of achilles tendonitis I had in the past year and it was supposed to help that. So hopefully the achilles won't get too bad this time. If all this doesn't work, I might have to think about getting more stable pedals like Shimano. The Crank Bros. pedals I have has way too much play and my heels go all over the place. I guess I will have to do some rides this week and see what happens. I had a blast anyway at this race and the weather was perfect.


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