Boom Island Clinic

I think I'm in the throws of the effects of a long season. I wanted to ride last night cause my fitness is really sinking fast but my mind was on a lot of other things and I wasn't feeling too hot to begin with. It took forever to get to Boom Island from my house because traffic was so crappy. I was a little on edge to begin with then the registration dude pissed me off. The guy in front of me had his license out and so I asked the registration guy if I needed it with a little surprize in my voice. He said yeah so I got out of line and went back to my car to get it. Turns out I didn't need it at all. I just needed to write down by friggin' license number - like I don't know my f'ing number?! Who has to look at their damn license to know their number?! Hell I've done about 30-40 races this year.

Anyway, I wasn't feeling too spry to start things out for good reason. I had one of my lovely anaphalactic reactions brewing from something I ate earlier. They start out very slowing and start to manifest themselves little by little and then come on strong late at night. I was a little weezy to start but didn't use my inhaler. The clinic got underway and we worked on cornering - how ironic. Then we got the practice race going. I got off the start well and was hangin' in there for the first and second laps. Cullen finally passed me (you're getting slow Jimmer :) ) and I was hanging on his wheel until I dumped it in the hairpin - that's the ironic part. I tried to get back in the game and blew myself up and just hung on and tried to not do anything stupid the rest of the time. Fun course, I loved the twisty fast single track along the river. I didn't feel comfortable on the bike - my tire pressure felt way too low for the conditions. I'm still learning that whole tire/tire pressure deal.

All in all a good workout. I needed it since I hadn't ridden since the Hudson race. Lots of familiar faces - Jimmer, Painman, Lyner, Rich B, Ray ... Thought there'd be an even bigger turnout due to the Sat cancellation. I talked with Pete from Birchwood about the endo photo I took of him at Hudson. He had seen it, turns out The Wah Report ain't givin' credits for photos though. Pete seems like a real cool dude - keep it upright Pete.

No racing for me this weekend, I'm headed to K.C. to visit my 'rents. My wife just about had an embolism when I joked about finding a cross race down in K.C. Should be fun - 8 hrs in the car with 2 1/2 yo twins, twice!