Skinny #1 Racing

So now that I don't have a coach, I've been reading lots and lots about training. For cross season, I've been going off the book "Cyclo-cross: Training and Technique" by Simon Burney. It's really helpul and I'm following workouts that they have right now. For the first time in my life I'm training twice per day. On Tuesday, I went for a 25 minute run in the morning, and a 1 hour zone 2 ride in the afternoon. Today, I already rode the trainer for 2o minutes (with 5 30 second intervals), and I'm going out for 1 hour easy tonight. Even though it doesn't seem like a ton of training, I'm definitely tired. When I got off the trainer this morning I felt super dizzy when I was in the shower. So I figured the only way to fix that was to drink some more Gatorade and have some of my madre's homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. It seems to be hitting the spot. My legs still feel a little crappy though.

I still don't know where I'm going to be racing this weekend. Hopefully it'll be on Sunday, becaue I just like Sunday races way more than those on Saturday. This past weekend, I did the race in Boulder and absolutely sucked (it's OK though...I think I'll do better this weekend). Danny Summerhill destroyed the Cat. 3 field, I think he beat Colin Cares by about a minute. The best race though, was definitely the Pros. T Brown got second on a single speed mountain bike, it was insane. Alan Obye won, good for him. The crowd favorite was definitely Adam McGrat though. I'm pretty sure everyone there knew him. Plus, he was riding a set of barriers, and the run up after them. The crowd went crazy every time he did it. That kid has mad skills, and from what I understand he's a pretty good mechanic (I'm sure Kaboom could attest to that). I think I'm gonna work on riding barriers, because they can definitely save time in some situations...