Rethink, Rearrange

My priorities for what kind of racing I wanted to focus on this year changed when I started racing cross last year. While I worked hard at track last summer, I decided to not focus on it this year.

There are a few reasons:

1. While I enjoyed the races and I love clinics, there’s a self-realization that I’m neither disciplined enough nor motivated to try to get to Cat 3. I’ll race throughout the season to provide team support and back-up but any plans for glory are not to be had.
2. Thursday night racing is expensive. Twenty dollars to race three times a night can hurt a bit.
3. I like cross better.

I don’t race road. I’m not interested in that aspect of cycling per se but there is another form of racing I’m intrigued by, while I’m waiting for fall — mountain biking.

I’m not sure if I’d even like it that much nor have the technical skills — I know so very little about what happens at a mountain bike race but it does intrigue me.

I do lack a bike for that though, having sold my old MTB a few years ago. Though perhaps I can whip something up with the team.

28 April 08       Leave a note [4]