If anyone has ever had a sports injury, you know how much it sucks to go from good fitness to injury and the long road getting back. January I got the pain again in the left hip.
Being a masters racer, this becomes more common. In my youth running, all the way into college, this was a "once in a while" occurrence and was well managed back to racing.
One step forward, four steps back. I am still shooting for April to race. The Mead Roubiax is going to be one hell of a race. Recon ride on Monday when it was 19 degrees and fog was not a pleasure, but fun to be out. It got hot by the end of the ride at 32 and sunny.
The course is one big roller with sketch dirt. The last 5 miles of the circuit you hit County Road 7, which has the most steady climbing. A longer road climb and then a set of dirt climbs that are hard due to the loose gravel, soft sand and washboard hell at the start of each up. I cracked my saddle in half that day in the last dirt climbing sections. I termed these 2 last climbs the "Twin Hitlers". Just when you thought you were on your way home from the loop, the last 5 miles of the circuit are going to kick you in the nuts.
DBC has made this course fit the term "Hell of the North".
New saddle and gator skin 25c tires are going on the road bike this week.
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