wasted

not wasted like you would assume, im so tired i cant stay awake. sager doing coffee and red bull all night. i passed out in the van. he thought it was proper to get home at 6am and go do a 5 hr mtn pass road ride with 9,000 feet of climbing. of course i didnt go, i did a few hours in traffic on the cx bike. i jacked up my arm jumping stuff i shouldnt have been. now i cant pick up my bike. i cant even grip my bars.
oh well.

recovery,
i wasnt racing so i dont know how those guys do this race thing and train all year. then party, stay up all night and keep going. its amazing to me impressive and admirable, the travel, food, hotels, rest, training, winning, losing by inches and doing it 2 or 3 times a week in different towns. made harder by self driving winning talk, you suck losing talk, sponsor pressures, spoken or not.
performance anxiety and mechanical pros or woes.
its a ballet and the best guys do it weekly and its given and rarely learned. these guys and gals work hard and deserve it, but it takes a special breed and if youre not born with it then forget about it.

its like this. go to vegas, walk around all day, my feet are sore. ride a bit, drive a lot, sleep little, play games and lose lots of money, or go to parties and get wasted, get to the hotel at sunrise and wash up. go walk around in the building all day and do it again.

not that i did all that, its just the theme of the week. just dont get sick. there are a lot of sick looking people around. i dont like touching public hands, doors, hand rails or toilets.

i wont mention anything else.

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here are some more videos from last night.