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April 4, 2008
Hills, in MN... No Way!
Day two at the Loon State camp. Day one ended with me being completely humbled. 57 miles and I start to bonk., Into the Sag wagon and followed all those who did a hundred miles. Am I pissed off... Absolutely not! I had an great 57 miles. The hills down here in Whalen, MN are great. They can get up to a mile long and have plenty of ramps up. We have had about 20 guys here both days and that makes the hills much better. Yesterday I got too ambitious on the hills and I think that is what did me in. Levi's lasagna was awesome and refueled all of us very well.
Today was a different day. My legs felt great and I was set to go. I wanted to do about 80 miles, but ended up doing 93. The last 26 or so were on the Root River trail, which was flat, but there is a nasty headwind in sections. We had six on the return which kept things moving along. I kept my tempo on the hills in control today and let the strong guys go. I rode near the front all day (though was a wimp and stayed out of the wind for the most part). As usual Cullen pulled all day long. I am simply impressed! Jordo (Cullen Jr.) is simply amazing. At 12 years old, this kid has put in 215 miles in two days!
The descents were great today and I was pushing my limit every chance I got. Twice I ended up behind Cullen for town sign sprints. The first was a down hill sprint and I lost by a tire or so. The second was when Dan took off from about 1/4 mile out and I sucked Cullen's wheel all the way. As Cullen made the last sprint, I tried to cut over to his wheel again and just about crashed into Macy. There went the sprint for both of us.
I was on for dinner tonight and ended up making some pretty decent chicken, rice and green beans. I will be very curious to see how the legs spin tomorrow. My goal would be to end with 100 miles, but we will see.
Posted by kermisch at April 4, 2008 10:28 PM