Sunday's Race: bad

Had a race today. Once again, I didn't manage to sleep the night before. It's starting to be a habit. I really have no idea what to do about that. I think I will start by trying to sleep more regular 8 hours per night, instead of zero hours one night, and then 10 or 11 hours the next night, and then another zero hours, etc....probably not the best sleeping schedule. That will be my first experiment. If it doesn't work I will go to see a doctor.

I have a habit of trying weird experiments on myself. A couple years ago I thought maybe my permanent clogged nose was due to an allergy to milk...so I stopped eating all dairy. All the good it did me was take away the joy of pizza Monday's in Dynamics class. I still don't know why my nose was always clogged...I suspect dry air in my room at night. So maybe I will try to sleep underwater :P

Back to the race. Having not slept overnight, although I didn't feel horrible, I just couldn't focus. After the first lap I had a 12 minute space where I had NOOO power, and I was hitting everything. I started slow, then caught some people...then I took a wrong turn and they got back ahead. Then I caught them again, and proceeded to head straight into a large tree, thereby rewarding myself with a big charlie horse to the quad. Too bad it was near the end of the last lap, so I couldn't catch up again.

Overall though, it was still a fun day, the course was fun and fast, and for the first time since I've been racing on this team (6 years) we had good weather at this venue. It seems to have migrated to last weeks venue.

On the gf front, I've finally come to terms with the reason and logic behind the break up...Now I just miss her and think about her. Which is a lot better. Still sad, but better.

Cheers.