Doing it the right way

I’ve won bike races in the past.  Some were gifts, some were luck, some were brain cells and occasionally, I won them on power.  Last night, I won a bike race on power and brain cells combined.  It was perhaps my “perfect race” for the night.  The race was a  snowball… 1, 2, 3, 4, 5…. all the way up to 15 points awarded on each lap.  Second place on each lap gets 0….

We roll off and I grab the garbage.  One point… nobody cares.  They start to REALLY care on lap 2, don’t know why, but he… go for it it!! On lap 2 and three “fake sprinted” just enough to make a couple other guys work for 2 and 3 points.  Four was a good sprint, I floated.  Just buying myself a little recovery.   Five…. wound it up late.   I let them all sprint and I started sprinting too late to win 5 points, but early enough to catch them by surprise.  You see,  I knew they would all go high and look for somebody else to do some work.

As the field went up looking for a sucker, I gave them a sucker punch they were not expecting.  I attacked.  I have been working on long efforts, so I just hit it at about 90% and rolled hard.  I grabbed 7, but 1 person was chasing (Gwen).  I saw her and she is a good rider, so I eased up, let her through to get 8.  That meant we could work together.  I got 9, she got 10 and I started calculating.  Normally random number trivia is my specialty.  At 170 beats per minute, I cant figure this out and I want the win.  She pulls up on lap 13 and I attacked again.  I had to take “my lap” (14) and hers to guaruntee the win.  I held on to win the 15th lap by a large margin and ultimately win the race!

The other races last night… the 5 lap – I didn’t warm up well.  Ooops…. the points race, I probably placed.  I rode it to win, but not too smart.  Great workout though!  Last night felt great, this morning… not so much.  Then again, it’s a good feeling…