{"id":1118,"date":"2009-05-22T08:07:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T14:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2009-05-22T08:08:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T14:08:49","slug":"pre-race-rambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=1118","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Race Rambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend will be my first road race (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.westfelclassic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">West Feliciana Classic<\/a>) since I temporarily &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/archives\/942\" target=\"_blank\">quit<\/a>&#8220;\u00c3\u201a  back in March. I&#8217;ll admit, I&#8217;m not in top form for road racing at the moment. However, I am feeling much better psychologically. I had no idea how crazy my situation had been making me. Looking back at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/archives\/category\/training-camp-08\" target=\"_blank\">training camp<\/a> posts, I can see how the burnout started and eventually became bad enough that I decided to stay home and lose the $200something I&#8217;d spent on a plane ticket to California for the San Dimas race.<\/p>\n<p>Now I finally <em>want<\/em> to race. So, I&#8217;m really just looking to go and have a fun time. Good results would be a plus. Since I sold my TT bike to help put Jens the Niner together, I&#8217;ve got clip-on aero bars in full effect!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/twitpic\/photos\/large\/9469835.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&amp;Expires=1243002126&amp;Signature=JwhVfBGFe0SAHOuTZNpscHeCuuk%3D\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Clip Ons\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/twitpic\/photos\/large\/9469835.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&amp;Expires=1243002126&amp;Signature=JwhVfBGFe0SAHOuTZNpscHeCuuk%3D\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I went for a short ride last night, and they felt pretty good. The TT will be important since it&#8217;s the first stage, and, if I do well, could make the remainder of the weekend a bit easier as far as strategy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend will be my first road race (West Feliciana Classic) since I temporarily &#8220;quit&#8220;\u00c3\u201a back in March. I&#8217;ll admit, I&#8217;m not in top form for road racing at the moment. However, I am feeling much better psychologically. I had no idea how crazy my situation had been making me. Looking back at training camp&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-i2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}