I ran my first alleycat in over a year last night and sucked it up like I tend to do. There's a thousand lame excuses I could throw out; my flat bars kept me from really digging in, I had worked all day, I was dehydrated and hungry, bottom line is that I couldn't pull it out. DFL. 28 minutes behind first place, 14 behind second, third and fourth and 4 minutes behind fifth. I "beat" the two DNFs and one guy who was far enough behind me that his finish was at the bar we went to afterward.
I can't say that I'm not bummed out about it but I did make a few DUMB mistakes including messing up the furthest stop from where I needed to drop manifest #1 which caused me to have to go back and do that whole stop over again and then misreading manifest#2 and looking for the wrong building, both of these together probably cost me at least 20 minutes and by the time I dropped manifest #2 and had to sprint to my former JJ delivery job or a to-go menu I was fucking cooked and just didn't have the legs to sprint 30 or so blocks, 7 of it uphill.
So, lessons learned;
-bring water dumbass (I usually do, but I forgot my water bottle on the bench at work)
-make sure I have the right address (I pulled a classic "right number, wrong street")
-having the "Doctor Who" theme stuck in your head makes racing surreal
Oh well, maybe next time
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somehow, thinking of the "doctor who" theme song has gotten "the x files" theme song into my head.
i'm very glad i don't have to go race anything now.
i'll just drink this coffee instead.
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