A Brief Check in..

Raced two Crits with Zpack over the weekend.

They went reasonably well. No top tens, no victories, just one prime...
But we raced well and had fun.

The highlight of weekend would probably be loosing at Banana-Grams to my future mother in-law three times.

Banana grams is sort of like Scrabble, except you play off of yourself and Trishy has a real knack for it.

Last week I started ran 4 times. Ran Nite Moves 5k in a sluggish 20:24 last week. I will knock two minutes of that time by the end of summer.

Ran two times this week but when it came time for nite moves my right knee started acting up about a mile in so I played it smart and HALTED mid stride as soon as I felt that all too familiar shooting/splintering pain which no doubt means a tightening IT band. Time to do some exercises to increase hip strength and bring out 'The Stick'!

S: 8am ROCO ride to casitas climbs then back
S: Raced woodland hills crit
M: Raced Long Beach Crit, then ran for an hour in the evening
T: Lunch pace line + hope ranch suffervals in PM
W: Hope ranch + sea ranch road (Ron, TnA, and Ed are freaking awesome, thanks for joining in on the pain guys! Marco, since you won the KOM on TOP of the stage win at Mt Hamilton, you have a free pass.)
Th: 3 times up OSM (19+ #1; 17:50 #2; 16:58 #3), the third time I continued up Painted cave to the drive way

Tonight I head down to LA and then Joshua Tree to Celebrate Caitlin's 21st Birthday. The plan is to get in a little bit of hiking/Clubbing/ running/ climbing/ hot tubing... well maybe not clubbing, but whatever else Caitlin wants to do for her special weekend.