My secret concoction of Gatorade & ice was perfect & ready to quench my thirst in that sticky hot Valencia heat. In the Pro/1/2 field, there were some racers I was happy to see (NB, AD, JS) and some that were just taking up space. Five minutes into the race, I grab my water bottle and attempt to take a drink...instead, the thing just cracked-totally useless.
So there I was, effed. I only had 70 more minutes in the race heat-hopefully I wouldn't stroke out because fat people don't do well in hot climates while sustaining 95% of their max heart rate.
Aram Dellalian of SixTuMed/C4DF.org, was kind enough to give me one of his bottles and that sh*t-I will not forget.
So getting back to the race...Brandon Gritters was excellent at f*cking things up for the chase 'cuz he was blocking for Aron Gadhia-Brandon was doing the same crap I would have done, so he did his job at makin' me mad and screwin' up the chase...bravo. Aram stood up and got counted today, as he participated in the chase and bridged to the break. The team that surprised me was Rock Racing, as they had a boatload of guys and still couldn't win. The guy they cut from the team, who's now racing for another team: he won!
I also wasn't surprised that Rock Racing's Rahsaan Bahati didn't resolve his dine-n-dash incident. If he would have fixed it like a man, then I would have been surprised, but I'm sure he has less important things to do.
The only thing that knocked me off balance was that Polar water bottle failure. It broke at a critical moment: in a race, at the beginning, on a hot day, in an elite category. I hate paying for things that don't work, so I'm gonna send it back to them and see what happens. All in all, it was a good day. The water bottle failure wasn't as bad as it could have been, and thanks to Aram, it could have been a lot worse
# posted by The BLOGGER, aka Blog Boy @ 7:40 PM
My secret concoction of Gatorade & ice was perfect & ready to quench my thirst in that sticky hot Valencia heat. In the Pro/1/2 field, there were some racers I was happy to see (NB, AD, JS) and some that were just taking up space. Five minutes into the race, I grab my water bottle and attempt to take a drink...instead, the thing just cracked-totally useless. So there I was, effed. I only had 70 more minutes in the race heat-hopefully I wouldn't stroke out because fat people don't do well in hot climates while sustaining 95% of their max heart rate. Aram Dellalian of SixTuMed/C4DF.org, was kind enough to give me one of his bottles and that sh*t-I will not forget. So getting back to the race...Brandon Gritters was excellent at f*cking things up for the chase 'cuz he was blocking for Aron Gadhia-Brandon was doing the same crap I would have done, so he did his job at makin' me mad and screwin' up the chase...bravo. Aram stood up and got counted today, as he participated in the chase and bridged to the break. The team that surprised me was Rock Racing, as they had a boatload of guys and still couldn't win. The guy they cut from the team, who's now racing for another team: he won! I also wasn't surprised that Rock Racing's Rahsaan Bahati didn't resolve his dine-n-dash incident. If he would have fixed it like a man, then I would have been surprised, but I'm sure he has less important things to do. The only thing that knocked me off balance was that Polar water bottle failure. It broke at a critical moment: in a race, at the beginning, on a hot day, in an elite category. I hate paying for things that don't work, so I'm gonna send it back to them and see what happens. All in all, it was a good day. The water bottle failure wasn't as bad as it could have been, and thanks to Aram, it could have been a lot worse