suckage. major.
oof.
saturday morning's ride was rough.
being that it was one of our first nice weekends here in KC some peeps and i decided to go ride the IMKS route.
oooh.
bad idea.
first of all.. the course is just gunna be hard. its JUST gunna be HARD. ya know that topo map i posted earlier, and it looked like a bunch of rolling hills?!
well. they aren't.
there are no rolling hills.
oh... there are hills!
but they don't roll.
they go from flat.. flat... flat... to CLIMB! CLIMB! CLIMB!
and if you were to take just any one of 'em?!
eh. not bad.
but when you put all of them, plus some ferocious wind, together, in sort of a one-two strike-out punch kinda way!?!
.... suckage. MAJOR.
the first leg (the course is called the iron cross, so... one of the appendages = one leg)... yeahhhh... the first leg and back took me 1:40.
HOURS!
multiply that by 4, folks, and we have a problem.
i was supposed to ride 3 hours but with my i can't do this. i'm never gonna finish this. why did i sign up for this? what am i doing? why am i here? mental dialogue and the wind beating down on me... i packed it in after my first leg and drove home severly humbled.
after last weekends Austin Awesomeness.. i was feeling pretty good. i thought i'd made some serious progress riding-wise and felt like this half IM thing was in my grasp.
unfortunately, i think i was wrong.
SO. its back to training out of fear as opposed to excitement for me, because right now... finishing this thing?!
i'm starting to have my doubts.
Comments
Oh no! Now my doubts are coming back too! Wonderful....
Posted by: Anonymous | April 21, 2008 06:58 AM
Well, I think if I have learned anything from your blog, it's that you get it done! And it sounds like you are going to have to go give that course another practice whirl.
Posted by: Danielle in Iowa | April 21, 2008 07:43 AM
Great. So if you're having issues, that means that I am BEYOND! ROYALLY! EFFED!
argh.
Posted by: Running Jayhawk | April 21, 2008 08:30 AM
*SLAP*
That was to startle you out of the corner you're hanging out in quivering from fear.
Just keep riding the course. Just keep riding. Do some interval training, get some distance work in.
Train to feel good, not out of fear. Much more fun that day.
ps- some days you're the dog, some day's you're the hydrant and that's part of my post today (whcih isn't posted yet becaues I'm procrastinating)
Posted by: 21stCenturyMom | April 21, 2008 09:11 AM
Didn't you do out to the intersection and then the leg to the right, so technically that's two legs? It's do-able, just not as fast as any of us would have liked... It won't be that windy in June, and it will be warmer so we'll be less bundled up which means more aerodynamic... ok, I keep trying to convince myself of that anyway. See you out there on May 4!
Posted by: Rick | April 21, 2008 02:36 PM
You will just fine. You can do it.
Posted by: Denise "Firefly" | April 21, 2008 04:11 PM
dont you doubt yourself girl. you will be 110% prepared for this race. you will be MORE than fine. i have faith in you, have more faith in yourself!
Posted by: Kim | April 22, 2008 11:12 AM
You are so going to rock it. Really.
So what did you learn from this ride? That you need to ride more, train more. Plain and simple. And I'm guessing you were planning to do that anyway.
It's supposed to be hard - it's a (half) Ironman - not a Marshmellowman.
Posted by: Andrea | April 22, 2008 12:00 PM
You're scaring ME and I only have a sprint!
I have no advice, except to keep training. Fear, fun, whatever it takes.
I bet you're doing better than you think.
:)
Posted by: jeanne | April 23, 2008 08:20 PM
looks like some Shawnee Mission Park training is in order....
Posted by: Doug | April 24, 2008 07:38 AM