NOW women-day 3 Superweek

Hello all!

Today was a really long day and we're about to go to bed so I will spare you the gory details of today. The alarm went off way to early and as soon as we could the girls were off the course. An hour drive and a much earlier start time=cranky, tired girls.

We got to the course and didnt do much of a warm up because we had a long RR ahead of us and I was simply trying to see if my legs could turn the pedals after yesterday's crash. Turns out even if we had warmed up it would not have mattered because they started us 45 minutes late, oh well. Oh, and we had tried to get race food but the only thing we could find was a gas station. Race food = 1 Mrs. Fields Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie and and XL bag of LifeSaver Gummy Fruits. Awesome.

First few laps of the 5.5 mile course went by in a blur. Lots of little accelerations but nothing too terrible. I remember looking up and seeing 9 to go and wanted to die. Every lap was a battle and I just kept telling myself "just get through one more lap, just one more then you can pull out." It was like a game. Then I would tell myself, "Well, you got through the last lap so just one more."

Laps 7-9 were excruciating. The straight-aways found us pushing the pedals 33 mph and I did not know it was possible for me to go up ANY hill at 20+ mph and so I was thoroughly shocked to look down and see 22-25 mph up some of the power climbs. Can I say again that I wanted to die?

I tried hard to lead Julia out for the final sprint but found myself getting cut off multiple times by the girl that crashed me out yesterday. I decided to just blow past her and sat in the wind w/ Julia on my wheel for the last straight-away. Then someone attacked and I did not have the legs left to match it. Nothing else exciting. Julia battled it out for 13th and I finished somewhere around 20th. Still trying to recover. Bed time soon.

Thanks all for listening to my probably incoherent post-race babble.

Oh, and weird, but Marge has started having a mind of her own. Doors opening, lights, The whole shebang. If any of you have any ideas about what's going on, that would be appreciated. Maybe electrical? Maybe ghosts? eh...