Hotter n' Hell

Okay, I've had this saved in my Blackberry for a while now thinking I would have time to finish it. It's not looking that way, because now I have other things to write about but here's my abbreviated race report from Hotter n' Hell.

A race is like life, you have to be able to adjust for whatever might be thrown your way. Sure, everyone has a plan for their life or even for the day, but most likely things will not go exactly as planned and if you aren't able to modify your plan accordingly you probably won't get the end result you had hoped for. The same goes for racing bikes, you have to race the race, not the plan. That is the lesson we took home from HHH.

I finished the race 8th of 65 or so riders. That result wasn't the plan. We did go into this race with a great team plan and it probably would of worked last year, or the year before or any year that it's actually hot. This year, it was nice and cool and the heat wasn't a factor. The problem with our plan was that we stuck to it for too long and had we been racing the race the end result would of been different. Would it of been better, we'll never know, but the race would of definitely been more suited to our liking. Chalk it up as another lesson learned. One more down and many more to go. This was my best result at HHH so far, and each year they get better, so next year is looking promising.