well done!
Good work 8) A rollercoaster ride of a season so far!
300+ miles of driving this weekend for a 2 hour race 😆
Well I'm going to join back in here, insane amount of driving for a race (XC) this weekend, race started fast as **** and I couldn't hack the front. Got dropped off a bit but could still see people, started feeling strong through lap 3 and then was feeling good on the lap 4 climb (4 lap race, one huge climb then descent) and took some places back...punctured on the last bit of the climb 😥 9th. Meh.
Bad luck there monkeyfudger. Still sounds like plenty of positives to take from that.
Was meant to be racing this morning but a couple of bad nights with the kids, so tired had to give it a miss. Bit annoying as it looks like a quick day on a good course and I'm going quite well. Ho hum.
Farkin kids, they are like a dads version of kryptonite!
Farkin kids, they are like a dads version of kryptonite!
Certainly Dad's racing/recovery kryptonite!
Had a pretty good go at the club 10 last night. Second place out of 30 riders and a PB (I've not been doing it long!) on a fairly slow evening, I'll take that 🙂
Nice one! It's great when you bounce back eh!
So I find myself in a&e. After sprint off the line into top 10 I crashed on lap 1 of an XC race avoiding a fallen rider on gravel and landed on my bonce. Massive neck pain and a fractured nose plus general cuts and bruises.
I took a few minutes to recover then got back on and stormed the next hour to make up places, hopefully I've come mid pack. My drunken stagger through the clubhouse had me caught and pronounced with concussion.
Hopefully sorted by resting for the next few days, I hope so cause I can't move my head.
Aah yes, twice I've got caught up in the pile up off the line, never pleasant! Heal fast.
Hope you're ok Kryton.
With a bit of luck your nose might actually set straight 😛
Ooft, heal soon Kryton. Sounds like whiplash from landing on your head - I had this after my crash, was horrible but thankfully only lasted a few days.
I've been checked over by a sports medicine GP since my ribs and shoulder are still sore. Shoulder now taped up. Minor panic about big alps trip coming up, I can still ride but can't climb out of the saddle as it hurts my ribs too much and any form I had feels like its long gone...
Fark Kryton, get well soon!
Flippin eck, hope it gets better soon. Chapeau for getting up and racing, amazing what a bit of adrenaline will do!
Ouch. Mend fast.
sounds a sore one, hope its not too bad
Ouch, hope you heal quickly
Thanks all.
Docs confirmed concussion, muscle issues in my neck, fractured nose and some slight black eyes. The bruises and rashes are itchy this morning. I just need R&R for a few days and I'll be OK. Nobby, lucky because my nose is prominent enough as it is, it didn't go out of place its just a hairline fracture across the bridge.
well, I did soldier on and was later discovered to have ridden concussed. I tried to move up as many places as possible - i estimate 8-10, here's a vid from a club mate of me taking a guy on the line at the last - we'd been battling it out for 5 mins prior to this.
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Never give up eh? 🙂
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Good grief. Despite that I've provisionally scored 8 national XC points.
You should get someone to knock you over the head before every race!
That's exactly what my wife said!
Was it accompanied by an evil or nice smile though...
Unlucky with the crash, but well done on the result anyway.
I am also in racing doldrums land. If my maths and understanding of the points system is correct I'm actually doing ok in my regional series standings - more by dint of few people doing them all than any actual skill. There's one more race to go in a few weeks, which I had in my head would suit me, and I've some painful niggling in my leg the last month which means I can't really ride, and if I do I can't put the power down. Physio in the morning - fingers crossed he can work some magic
Whiplash, get straight on the phone to a claims company! You're gonna mint it!
Back in!
Chain gang on Thurs left me feeling rather good, feeling strong enough and looking forward to the weekend...
Last night I was getting my kit ready and thought I'd do a few sprints on the bike before loading it in the van "just to make sure it was sweet", it wasn't, massive crunch from the rear hub and the bearing had basically collapsed. Huge amount of play in the hub now. Awesomez! I sent a message to the race organisers to tell them I'd not be making it and was very kindly offered the use of a wheel. Actually awesome! Turned up, got the wheel. Practice...yeah, punctured after 3/4 mins max on the loaner (tubeless) wheel, rushed back and stuck my tyre and tube on. Race...yeah puncture, half a lap max!! FML! 5 XC races this year, 3 punctures.
Well its started :-/
I was supposed to be racing in Hadleigh last Sunday but woke up with what I percieved to be a virus, with no other symptoms than a bit of nausea, but really hurty skin/hair/teeth.
Thats continued all week - I can't get through the day without several max doses of Ibruprofen let alone ride a bike, once I wake at night I can't sleep again, yet I have Octoberfest Bristol in 10 days - my season ender.
Its not going to go well is it...
#Annoyed
Hard to do I know, but just try not to worry about it and focus on getting some rest. Quite often I find that I get good results after I've been ill, because the enforced time off the bike means fresh legs.
Obviously if you are still ill when the race comes around, that's a different matter. But you've got 10 days yet.
Well true, but I'm missing a whole week of cycling, and taper should be next week. Hopefully I'll be well enough to do something even if its just ride the best I can, and not achieve the target I wanted.
Properly in the bike racing doldrums here so time for a thread resurrection. Had a really solid winter of training motivated by wanting a good season of racing. Then early season racing didn't go to plan, all a bit stop start (mostly cancelled races, family commitments). Felt like I was just getting going around mid May with a good block of racing coming up and then got bloody glandular fever (made even more knackering as both kids got chicken pox.)
Now just starting to do easy rides again and it's just depressing. And the sun is finally shining and people I should be racing against are knocking out PB's and course records all over the place. Got some of the bigger target races coming up and I'm in no shape to ride. I really could just jack it all in right now 🙁
Change your plan - aiming for the same stuff now is just gonna be crap so enter some stupid stuff, hill climbs, sprint tri etc and target something proper when you've had time to train
Well until I got this my training had been spot on and was on good form, just needed a block of racing to get properly up to speed. I'm just hoping that with a good base it won't take me too long to get back up to speed. Though sounds like fatigue can go on for months with glandular fever 😕
Maybe I need to start thinking about a season of winter CX 🙁
Anyone else joining me in the doldrums?
I could, but I won't!
Last two races (Hadleigh, Beastway at RCC) have seen me with Jelly legs. Not sure what I'm carrying but both kids have colds although I have no outward symptoms, even my HR is fine. I've - hopefully temporarily - lost my sprint and hill power.
On top of that, Beastway last night was a slippery surface-coat-only mudfest and seeing as I'm a confidence rider I turned up with expectations of performing badly. Missing riders and a determination just to get round saw me +1 again although 11th of 25. So not a great ride but the result isn't as bad as expected, showing its always worth taking part and finishing! I rested 2 days since Hadleigh on Sunday so I've posted a grand total of 15km ridden this week so far.
Anyway, based on the other recent "new race bike" thread, I'm just accepting it and moving on...
More positive news is that despite placing about 30th in MSG series each race my consistency has me now gridded in 25th, so I'm a few rows ahead of the starting pack from here on in, hopefully to better results when I get my legs back.
Hope you recover fast MrBlobby, get well soon.
Maybe I need to start thinking about a season of winter CX
I was about to suggest this 😆
You wont regret it! hope you recover soon
My (XC) seasons been something of a nothing season. I've not had any results I've been pleased with, still stolidly mid pack or below. I've only felt fired up for two races, one welsh where I ended up sufferring two mechanicials and the last national at Dalby where I still didnt have a great race.
If we didnt have rain forecast for this w/e I'd be frothing for Fforest Fields but as it is I'm having flashbacks to the welsh champs where I was walking down the descents after crashing a couple of times in the grease.
Kryton57 - as I said in the XC race thread, you looked liked you got a pretty decent start on Sunday. It took me a while to pass you. I even thought about sitting on your wheel for a while because I thought you were going ok.
I'm not having a great season either to be honest. The jump from Sport to Vets has been massive. I've gone from finishing around the top 10 to being one of the last to not get lapped at National level. It gets demoralising.
I'm also not training very well and therefore, I struggle after the hour mark at an XC race. My lap time consistency is horrendous. Sundays MSG race saw over 2 mins between my fastest and slowest lap. My last 3 laps of the 7 got about 30secs slower per lap 🙁
I won't be at Fforest Fields for that reason
Kryton57 - as I said in the XC race thread, you looked liked you got a pretty decent start on Sunday. It took me a while to pass you. I even thought about sitting on your wheel for a while because I thought you were going ok.
Sure - I'm not unhappy. But without the Jelly legs I've had some searing opening / finishing sprints to date, of which MSG at Hadleigh & yesterday weren't two of them. You may see me go off faster next round 🙂
I thought my season was pretty much the same as last year, but comments at Beastway and gridding at MSG seem to reveal an incremental improvement.
I'm looking to heed advice and get coached through winter to arrive better for 2017.
Your pretty good though Gaz, but Vets is different company altogether, its a tough Cat.The jump from Sport to Vets has been massive
The jump from Sport to Vets has been massive
Your pretty good though Gaz, but Vets is different company altogether, its a tough Cat.
Well thank you...I dont feel it though. I seem to have got massively better technically but massively worse everywhere else.
Saying that, when you're up against some of the fastest old blokes in the country and you try and mix it up with them, it generally doesn't last long.
I thought my season was pretty much the same as last year, but comments at Beastway and gridding at MSG seem to reveal an incremental improvement.
I feel like this...I usually look at where those guys I was racing against last year are finishing and think what and where I could have been this year. They're finishing on and around podium places and im languishing in the mid 20's...its like a kick in the baby birds
😀
My new mantra is "what would Nino do"
The jump from Sport to Vets has been massive
Vets is a crazy fast class, not looking forward to when I move up (still got a few years). In our cx league I'd say the average speed of vets is faster than seniors
Anyone else joining me in the doldrums?
Me
Crap long ride on the 22nd May - no energy. Proper ill 3 days later, no throat etc migrated to sinuses, now on major antibiotics, not allowed out in the sun and still feel crap. I'll be lucky if I get away with a 3 week layoff.
Trying to remain positive, I've had one brilliant result and common sense just says I need to sack racing on the 19th, do some long distance training and extend my season till October.
At least I got time to build this
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Nice build. Thinking maybe I need to busy myself with some CX n+1 plans.
Proper ill 3 days later, no throat etc migrated to sinuses, now on major antibiotics, not allowed out in the sun and still feel crap. I'll be lucky if I get away with a 3 week layoff.
Sounds quite similar, and it is rubbish. Had a two week layoff before doing a couple of easy z1 rides, only about an hour, and they weren't too bad at the time but left me feeling crap the next day with worsened symptoms. Pushed on to mid z2 for an hour last night and that was hard work 🙁
Chin up guys, it’ll come back quickly. I had a great start to the season for a month, then needed antibiotics, then got a cold and in total, 5 weeks of no or inconsistent training in April - May. Felt like I’d lost tons but only took about 3 weeks of training to start noticing improvement then improved massively to now better than where I left off at the start of April. I think if you have trained well over winter you’ll lose a bit of top end but that will come back quickly with some focused work, just be careful not to over do it too early on. Still lots of the season left to re-focus on.
I did the first race of the SXC, did alright in sport, went to do the one at Cathkin and pre rode the course the Thursday before, broke my wrist (both bones).
It's not been too sore or anything, but riding bikes hasn't been doable for the past 3 weeks... Consideration of couple of XCs and some enduros, perhaps finally entering a DH race, have evaporated. Still I'm building a new bike to keep me happy.
Felt like I’d lost tons but only took about 3 weeks of training to start noticing improvement then improved massively to now better than where I left off at the start of April. I think if you have trained well over winter you’ll lose a bit of top end but that will come back quickly with some focused work
Good to hear dgob, that's what I'm hoping.
broke my wrist (both bones
Ooof, bad luck 🙁
I'm not in the doldrums, I'm just not racing!
Bought a licence, but I've hung a number board on thrice in the last year, one of which was 51 weeks ago. Telling myself I'll go and do the southern XC at Pippingford, but I CBA really! Doing the Summer Monkey, and a pair at 24:12. Enjoying riding again now (I wasn't), but a loss of top end fitness and my dislike of the ever more technical courses has been the death knell for my enthusiasm for getting a kicking in XC races.
but a loss of top end fitness and my dislike of the ever more technical courses has been the death knell for my enthusiasm
CX 🙂
