I’ve only raced two races and I’m already planning for next year. I expected to be off the pace this season but not to the extent that I actually am. The combination of me getting slower and everyone else getting faster has put me at the back of the pack. I’m still going to get faster by the end of the season but that’s going to be a relative term. Maybe I’ll be up in the mid 30s. Let me rephrase that, I hope that I’ll be up in the mid 30s by the end of the season.
I’m still going to go out and race every week. I’m going to try hard to be competitive with whoever I happen to be around. Perhaps I can use this humbling experience as a great big motivator to get my ass in gear during the off-season.
On another note, I was erroneously placed 15th in the initial results from Sherwood. I immediately sent an email message to the scorer (that’s the superhero Candi Murray to of most you) protesting my result. I knew that I should have been placed somewhere between Thom Kneeland and David Hart. That eventually put me in 43rd place. The morning after the results were posted, I received an email from one of my competitors which made note of my 15th place. I think he was distressed that I was incorrectly placed since that would have an impact on his points.
You see, sometimes Candi sends out a correction email if there are scoring errors and no such update had been forthcoming. The updated results had been posted to the OBRA web site though. I think my pal had expected to see a correction email. Since it didn’t come, he might have thought that no one (including me for potentially nefarious reasons) had yet resolved my incorrect scoring.
Or I could just be reading the whole thing the wrong way.
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October 21st, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Awe, you should have taken the points and run
Ranier and Sherwood were hella hilly. Wait ’till this weekend, you will do better, for sure!
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:02 am
Hey, yo! I will not be last. Just try to make me DFL. You
will FAIL. Fail, I tell you. Someone will always be slower
than me.
That is all.
too effing awesome.
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Don’t be to down on yourself about your results after having a year off. It seems to be faster this year than in years past. I personally *feel* faster than I have in past years, but shoot – my results sure aren’t reflecting that. Granted, some of that has to do with my dismal start positions, but some has to do with the general speed of the field this year. Good motivation, no doubt.