Bike racing can be a lot of fun. This weekend was a good example of that. As you may recall, a month and a half ago the Miles of Discomfort race was the most disgusting and brutal race I have ever done. I now had to return to the painful hills of Comfort, TX. Not very comforting(HAHA get it, it was a play on words)(sorry, that was horrible, no seriously, I shouldn't have done that). I showed up for the race on Saturday and pre-rode the lower half of the course. It was a lot of fun.
The race started how I expected it to. I attacked off the back which seemed to be a good call. It allowed me to not waste a bunch of energy trying to win. I found a good rhythm and settled in. That place has a lot of fun descending and some fun climbing too. I had a couple of pucker moments on the rock ledges but managed to stay upright. Then I got to the upper loop. That was when all the climbing began. That went well for awhile. Then I started a short descent with zero technical features and fell on my right side. The entire right side of my body lost skin. I go in for a skin graft on Thursday.
I finished the 23 mile race in 2 hours and 13 minutes. It was my first finish west of San Antonio. It was nice to get that monkey off my back. Erique Williams came along and he beat me soundly. Phil Teitel also came. He beat me too, but not as badly. See you next time.
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