Post race Mondays are always tough, but this one is especially so. Anyone who has ever raced knows that worn out, tired sort of feeling that overtakes your whole body. Yesterdays’ WORS Sunburst Showdown was definitely the worst race that I’ve had all year without any mechanical mishaps. Finishing was a huge success and somehow I came across the line in forth. I’ve never had such GI distress during a race and let me tell you, I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone! The first lap was enjoyable, but laps two through six were spent planning a quick escape into the woods if things got any more ‘urgent’. My stomach couldn’t have been any more wrenched. I had about two sips of PowerBar Endurance and that was all the fuel I consumed throughout the whole race. To say the least, my focus wasn’t on the race for a majority of the time out there… Shortly after finishing I spent about fifteen minutes in the porta-john. My body was not very happy. Enough said.
Of course there are always the ‘what ifs’ or ‘if onlys’, but I’ll spare you of those and hope to be healthy for the Chequamagon. Riding as well as I did while ill does offer me some reassurance that I’ll be just fine when I’m healthy next week. For now I just need to rest up and let my body recover from whatever sort of bug I came across.
We were consistently pulling sub-fifteen minute laps and I got to witness some serious attacking between AJ and Brian up the last climb. After finally bridging up to the group of AJ, Matter, and Phillips things really started to pick up. That last lap we closed about 30 seconds back on Tristan simply by repeatedly attacking each other. Ouch. I was just happy to finish with a clean chamois, and being fourth was incredible.
I must also give former PCW rider Brian Schaning props for finishing 54th in his second Wisconsin Ironman. This result is excellent! Next up is the big CHEQUAMAGON 40. That’s the story, so thanks for reading.
-TJ
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