My Routine: Race Nutrition

With Mont Sainte Anne finished, there is still racing to be done. But it’s a good time to look back a little bit on the season and reflect. One of the big things I’ve come to find is that my race preparation and race routine has become naturally more defined and exact. So I figured I’d share with everyone one of the components to it, nutrition.

More than just race reports

So race reports are cool and everyone loves to hear about these amazing places and these amazing course I've been so lucky to travel to in the last year. But I still use this blog to help document what I do and how it works, makes me faster or not. So I'm going to try and do this in a way that can help other people too. When you're trying to get fast you're trying to train, but you are also dialing in a race routine. A routine you go through to prepare you for each race. I'm going to share mine in the next few months with everything from pre-ride to race clean up and everything in between.

So look for these in the next few weeks to start rolling out. They will be labeled under Race Routine so you can read them in series whenever you want.

Quick Recap: (Alterra, opps) Colectivo Coffee Bean Classic

Time for a quick recap and opinion on WORS #8 in Franklin, WI.

This race can be considered my home race. Although it might be better to call Cam-Rock my home race, I grew up about a 15 minute drive from then Crystal Ridge, now The Rock. I rode there a lot when I was just getting started. And once I had a drivers license, I was there after school as often as I could borrow my parents car. To be honest, it’s been a while since I’ve ridden there, but it still has the feel of a home race. My family and friends always make it out.

MONT SAINT ANNE

This is, to be honest, a story that I wasn’t super excited to write about. But there are a million phrases and reasons I needed to do it. This blog is all about learning how to race and they say you learn the most in defeat. I was pretty defeated. They say that the best judge of character is how someone handles the difficult times. This has been an amazing year and this little hiccup in the long run is exactly that, a bump in the road on the way up. Finally, to be a good racer, you have to selectively remember. The good day and the bad, you have to only focus on things that make you stronger. Not the negativity that you feel from some bad luck. I’ve been focusing on the useless negative, it’s time to focus on the things that will help me improve.

Full Circle

This past weekend I originally planned to drive out to Vermont and race the final round of the Pro XCT, but when the chips fell, money was tight and I was getting tired of traveling. So I decided it was best to stay in Wisconsin and race the WORS race held at Sunburst instead. I think it was good for me because I’m feeling refreshed and ready for this coming week. But besides a quick recap I’d like to talk about a quick realization I had during Sunday’s race.