Bla weekend...

Unfortunately for me, I had to work at the bike shop all day long yesterday.  The weather yesterday proved to make a great day for riding and I was stuck inside.  I had a good time though.  Smap made it out to Haw Ridge and said it was a bit too greasy.  That made me feel better.  If the trails were "perfect", then I would have been pissed to have missed such an opportunity to ride.  I was needed at the shop though, and I did have a good time working with "the kids", Mig, and Scooter.  The five of us work extremely well together, so it made for a fun day of work at CBC.  

I did get a great 30 mile ride in after school on Friday.  I wanted to see how fast I could ride 20 miles.  I have an exact 30 mile course out of our driveway, which has some decent climbs, but is mostly flat.  I did experience quite a bit of head wind as I traveled west, but I ended up keeping a solid 20 mph average.  I didn't think that was too bad considering it is just February, I had some steep hills, and I had to stop several times for traffic and red lights.  I can only get faster.  

I don't know if I have mentioned this in any earlier posts, but I am trying to get a lot of miles and ride time in not only for the upcoming road racing season, but also for the Cohutta 100.  I have a link to this event under my links.  This is a 100 mile mountain bike race down at one of my favorite places to ride in the world, the Ocoee (Tanasi trail system).  I believe Floyd Landis will be competing this year,  but also one of my good friends Carol Ann Lawhon.  She has raced the previous two years of the race.  Last year she raced the 100 on her single speed, but this year she will be riding gears again like her first year of the competition.  Her friend Leslie who comes in from California with her is a pro for Niner bikes and Leslie kicked serious butt last year completing the race in like 10 hours or something crazy like that.  I think she got 4th place overall for the women.  The three women who beat her were all on gears.  I originally wanted to race my single speed (I hate shifting and if I have a mechanical problem, I can probably fix it), but Smap talked me out of the single speed for my first year doing the race.  Looks like I will be riding gears...new gears though.  Hopefully my new Fisher hifi carbon will be here in decent time for me to get use to it.  I tried to go back to gears some last fall while training for the 12 hours of Haw Ridge, but my single speed just made a better and faster ride for me.  I am just really confident on that bike.  

So, we will see.  Cohutta is April 19th!  I hope it is DRY!!!!  

Cheers for now!  Rach