Fourth Mixed Win

 My 250th race turned out to be a ring dinger. I picked it because it was a very short race of two laps of Laguardia New York. I hung in with a hard start. Five of us had a gap and extended it while dropping one rider as well. That left four of us to sprint it out and I had an aero power up. I was excited. Determined to start at 250, I hit it hard and popped my power up. I took off and got a gap with an 800 watts burst of max wattage. For me, that is pretty good lately. The pace had been fast but within my zone except for short bursts on the two risers on the course. I was able to catch my breath right before the sprint.

I think knowing it was race # 250 motivated me and helped me fear losing after fighting hard to stay with the leaders. All four mixed wins have come in this year, I think right? Wow, that felt good. I've been a little down that my 45-60 minute power has tailed off lately. Today was just the right level of sprint and the power up (what I needed in my last race lol where I almost won but then finished 6th , all of us within 0.5 seconds at the line)

Thanks for reading and hopefully more races to come.

What's Up Lately?

To give a quick update, I'm currently riding the ten world orange jersey laps, trying to keep my time roughly around the same as last year. With four events done, I'm only 17 seconds behind schedule. However, I have to redo Innsbruck as I had a bad day when trying to time trial the course last week. It made me depressed, even though I hate the course. It is way too long, even just the climb itself is an entire ftp test and then some. But, I'll try it when I'm feeling good and in the mood for a 45 minute ride. In between the time trials, I am doing a few races for the variety of it. 

Down the road? Still looking for WC's in September (and fearful of the 30 km distance in the time trial) I just want to do my best to defend my title. I need an occasional event to gear up for and lately the races have been either missing entirely or scheduled just out of my time table for races. Find something..... 

Makuri so far is pretty but not suited for great challenges yet. Maybe as it expands, it will improve. But for now, it is as weak as New York for me. The temple kom is ridiculous. The only real climb is on dirt which I hate. That leaves the boredom of the flat course for the orange jersey.