I've had the upcoming Omaha weekend circled on the calendar for a while now. How long? Oh, two years or so.
2009: Broken spine
2010: Softball-sized welt on my hip/lack of any fitness whatsoever
So yeah. I've been thinking about this one for some time.
But while in past years I worried about fitness and strategy and stuff like that, right now I'm most worried about the weather. And not so much the weather - it's hot, big deal. It's summer. I'm worried about recovery from the weather.
As in, after that 15-mile TT tomorrow morning, get inside, get cooled off and rehydrate. And don't move a muscle the rest of the afternoon. And after that 50-minute crit (likely temperature: 95 degrees), get cooled off and rehydrate again.
And drink and drink and drink. Repeat as needed. Because there's 70-some miles on the road on tap for Sunday.
Racing in the hot is one thing, but racing multiple times in 28 hours or so presents a different challenge. I feel like I'm up to it, fitness-wise.
I hope I'm up to it hydration- and electrolyte-wise.
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Miles has hired me as a bottle doler-outer for Sunday. If the team were to get organized, I could hand out to more than one person. And by organized, I mean provide me with a cooler full of labeled bottles and a Trek tent. Then other bottle doler-outers for the team could crowd around the team's bottle handout tent and not die of heatstroke waiting for the pack to come around again.
Just a thought.
Done.
Especially for all your teammates who are going to spend the whole day racing and working the race. Thanks for your help.
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