Lost Valley Luau

Mesa had a nice race. Thanks to John Twist, Adrienne, Russ, Matt James. The turn out is getting back in line with the old days. We need to recruit more beginners. I will bring my mother in law for sure next time.

I am glad that is over. Having come from a "short distance" training regimen in the past. The endurance class certainly enlightened me to the type of conditioning needed to get through the race with any kind of results. I think I will stay with it, this endurance stuff. Because I find it easy to come up with excuses. Which is a good thing, when you need it. For example. When the expert class, (three entries by the way) comes blasting past on lap three, their last lap. I shout: "hheyy, you guys sure are going fast on your third lap...". and "Yep, I only got two more which makes five, did you hear that? Five laps versus three laps, that is why I looks like I am going slow..."

I got five laps in. It was my goal, to beat the three hour cut off and get 5 laps. I didn't get lapped by Duane and Chris the DRJ badasses, but they would have lapped me on the next one. My legs were feeling pretty bad towards the end of the last lap. Hydration and nutrition played more of a role than before. I guess I will stay with the long distance stuff, prepare for a 6 hour later in the year, who knows, maybe a 12. There is a lot of miles needed to attain that "type" of fitness. I still like to go fast and plan on a combination of shorter races when there is a masters 40+ age category. But the season is early. Who knows what will happen?