I digress…<\/p>\n
I guess it’s back to interval training on Saturdays until the Trinity ride (hopefully) wakes up again.<\/p>\n
I’d like to preface my next post with this warning:
\nI only post bike-related drama here not because I care about it, but because A) I find it amusing that people care about this stuff so much, and B) in a lame attempt to get more blog traffic.<\/p>\n
You’ve been warned.<\/p>\n
In the midst of my scramble to prep for the upcoming first mountain bike race of the season (both physically and equipment-wise), I’ve been reminded again of the wide variety of attitudes that sometimes accompany people who race bikes.<\/p>\n
Since the Trinity group ride has somewhat fallen apart from the weekend worlds grandeur that it was previously, I’ve been fortunate enough to be allowed in to a couple of the Saturday rides with my previous team, Marx-Bensdorf. I didn’t leave the team on bad terms or anything, I just quit road racing, and they’re a road-exclusive team. The rides are never any sort of team strategy session… quite to the contrary. The couple of times I’ve joined in to the M-B group instead of the group of tri-guys who ride at the same time is because of the confrontational and ass-kicking nature of the roadie ride vs. the “work hard & together” nature of the tri-guys’ ride… it’s mostly the cat 2 & 3 men doing their best to one up each other while everyone else tries not to get dropped. It’s been a great opportunity to break up the interval training monotony and get some intense training with a good group of friends.<\/p>\n
Rewind to last weekend…<\/p>\n
Several of the women who were there asked if I were going to join back.
\n“No, I’m still focusing on mountain bike racing.”<\/p>\n
They also asked if I planned on road racing at all this year.
\n“Probably one or two of the local ones… a practice crit and maybe something else if the schedule works out. Boss’s orders & all.”<\/p>\n
Apparently, this didn’t sit well with someone, because this morning, I got an email from the team manager saying that since I was “competition,” that the women didn’t want me back on the group ride.<\/p>\n
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