Deming, 2nd round

Saturday Apr the 12th. Our bikes are ready, we missed the first amateur session, Luis is ready for the second session, mine is just missing a little bit of heat on the tires so I’ll wait for the third session. Luis is returning from the session and he’s so happy with is bike, he says it’s behaving so smooth he can’t believe it. I’m a little nervous, last time I rode my bike (and actually the first time I ever rode it) I spend the whole day making adjustments and didn’t get a good feeling so I was wondering if I made the right choice changing my old bike. “Third call for amateur practice”, that’s for me, let’s go, I’ll make one or two warm up laps just to make sure everything is ok. Mmmm one or two corners and I like how the bike feels, by the horse shoe I drag my knee with no effort and not intending to do so, wow, this is a totally different bike, looks like the trackday I spent seting up the bike is giving it’s results. By the second I find my pace and by the third I already feel I making better lap times then with my old bike (no lap timer but I could feel it), gotta say that is a big advantage having a fast bike, know I don’t see everybody leaving me on the straights, actually I was able to pass some not so slow amateurs, and keep the pace with some of them, totally new sensation for me lol. I just was having a little problem with breaking hard on the end of the long straight, the rear wheel was floating so I need to see Phil to set up my suspension for sure. I run out of gas so I have to leave the track, two minutes later a red flag is waving so everybody is coming to pits. I’m so happy, now I’m having fun, Luis is coming very happy, he thinks he’s going to be fighting for good positions on Sunday races. Phil sets up my bike and again I hear “third call for amateur practice”. Better session, finding my self more comfortable, one yellow flag, two yellow flags, WTF, session’s over and come out of the track. Luis is not coming, mmm yellow flags, “he must be ok” I think. I see him coming with his bike so probably is just a broken piece or something, I was right, he’s hand is broke. Well that’s it, let’s pack up everything and got to drive our way home (with a hospital in between).

Overall I’m so happy I find the feeling for my bike, yes I would love being able to race this weekend but this things happens so I have no problem helping my team mate. AArrrggghhh I can’t wait for may’s round.

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Va de nuevo

Ayer sábado fui a mi última sesión de rehabilitación de la espalda. Me he sentido bastante bien, ya no me ha dolido nadita la espalda estos días. También ayer sábado me invitaron a salir a rodar de nuevo y aunque traía un chorro de ganas de salir tuve que declinar la invitación. Para los que me conocen saben que me es imposible desvelarme hasta altas horas de la noche/madrugada, es decir, para mi las 10 pm ya es un desvelo, pero de igual forma dormir despues de las 7 am tambien es imposible, así que rechazar una invitación de salir en la bicicleta temprano fue un gran sacrificio :S, por cierto, mi casi esposa si se fue, me da mucho gusto que se haya ido sin mi porque eso significa que si le gusta la bici.

Ok, si Dios no dispone otra cosa el plan es el que sigue: está semana se rueda de lunes a jueves 80 minutos diarios, 40 en la mañana y 40 en la noche a velocidad “turista” , viernes, sabádo y domingo el plan es estar en El Paso, y el lunes 14 empezar a incrementar lentamente el ritmo para llegar en mayo a como me quede en febrero (sip, una lesión me esta costando 2 meses de entrenamiento, eso apesta).

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