All the little things

well as I mentioned in my last post, I went for a long ride to tidbinbilla a few weeks ago. What i didnt mention was that i hit my knee on my stem while climbing. This wasnt a problem until I went for a ride a few days later and it started to realy hurt. It was so bad that i couldnt bend my knee with out being in alot of pain. I tried riding a few times and it was realy weird. When I was cruising, it realy hurt, but when i raced or did an effort it was fine. So anyway, I went to the doctor on wednsday and he said take some neurofen 3 times a day for 4 days and put a compression band round my knee, and its feeling almost back to normal now.

I started CORCs summer crits last thursday night and raced A grade. It may have been my knee (dont think it was though) but I did realy badly. I got an ok start in 3rd or 4th place but continued to dop back to about 8th. I then raced the ACT road champs support race on staurday morning. I was racing with Elite wemon and Masters men. I thought I would nail them all, But halfway through the lap there was climb and two guys and one of the women got away, btu i quickly caught them. They decided that makeing a huge gap on the people we were racing was not enough and we had to try and catch Elite men who started 5 minutes ahead. We didnt catch them but we made up alot of time. So anyway these guys killed me on the flats and on the last lap i tried to make a break away and one guy just sat on my tail and i asked if he wanted to try and open the gap up and he said he had no need to he wasnt racing any of us, so we got caught. It came down to a sprint and I was the one being nailed. So after this my spirtits werent high. But on tuesday, corc ran a 3 stage crit at stromlo. I was too late for the first but raced the 2nd race. After leading for a bit, i got an easy 3rd racing against some serious riders. This gave me alot of confidence again.

On the nationals front, the first round was last weekend. Brendan won followed by Trento Day, Michael Baker and then James Peacock. The rest of the feild was a bit behind. The results were a bit of a surprise, but since have been faster than Michael throught most of the club races this year I feel that I can place 2nd, and mabey even challenge Brendan. Some more good news was that my dad told me he will take me up to the 2nd round at Illinbah as I have explained the significance of these races and that i could do pretty well.

So Im now getting ready top race the fling this sunday, dont know how I will go. I have been doing more XC training than marathon training the last few months. But who knows, it could be a good thing. My dad is going down to melbourne to see my brother and his new family so Ed Hood has offered to give me a lift which is great.

After sunday, its going to have to be full on training to get fit for Illinbah, I relay want to win or at leats get second. Ill catch up wth you all next week.