why do i love watching cycling? there's a lot of downtime, repetition, hum-drumness to the sport... i sit, watch in eager anticipation of an unexpected or even predictable attack? i even watched the highlights of yesterday's TT? who does that? there's no action in the TT? what am i trying to find? contrast der kaiser's cadence with basso's? gain some insight into how deep they are digging?
i *invoked* images of my cycling heroes while riding my hill repeats yesterday. ouch! the hill repeats hurt. while doing them i recalled zabriskie's description of time-trialling as "scraping the bottom of the [pain] barrel as quickly as possible and staying there". i also thought of ullrich pushing his big gears at 32mph in the giro TT and how hard he was probably working. i also told myself that this [the pain] is for honu. i'm excited and scared for the race. two more weeks!
i rode ~70mi and ran 3mi today. i thought that i'd be weak after yesterday's LT intervals. i did not feel great, but i was riding pretty strong. it reminded me even more of the sensations i felt at the wildflower race... the fitness is there (tapered or not), it just does not feel easy. i also realized that i like the *fitness feeling of having extra gears*... that is, after a winter of nurturing my diesel engine, the intensity training is adding a little extra torque to my fitness. okay, that's probably a mechanically incorrect auto analogy!
well, back to the giro... needless to say i'm psyched for the last week of the giro. wednesday's "plan de corones" stage should be epic. i've been wearing my white team csc hat all week. what a dork!
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