Montrose: the day after

In response to Naz's post on yesterday's race:

You summed it all up perfectly. We’ve talked a lot this fall and maybe we got into each other’s heads a little bit. Talk like “We’re just doing this to have some fun.” Or “We’ll just race our own races and see how we do.”

That talk is self-defeating. And it showed. We did well this fall, but we know we could’ve done better. Maybe not podium, but at least in contention, and not in the purgatory no-man’s-land of the 20s.

There’s always talk of next year and next year is when we’re going to have to make amends. It’s too late now, but at least we can go out saying, “We made it to most of the races and had a ball nearly every time.”

If we weren’t at least partially dedicated, we would be riding up and down the LFP, cruising in the small ring, with lots of stops and breaks. We do this bicycle racing thing for so many different reasons, but the chief of them all is that we like to go fast. But if there’s one thing that’s better than going fast is finding a way of going faster.