SPANKED!

I thought spanked sounded better than spent, which in my case either word works for me. I finished up the 2008 cyclocross season Dec 7 at Reston VA for the Capital Cross. Needles to say I didn't end the season quite the way I wanted to, but the way I've been feeling two weeks before the last race. I'm not surprised how it ended. I was hoping to finish the season racing the C race and getting one more chance to race against many of my cross buddies and try to get in the top 10, but faith had other plans or at least me not thinking too clearly about what time I needed to be there. I arrived 10 minutes before the start of my races, as you can guess I didn't get to race in the C race. I ended up signing up for the B race and expected to get my ass kicked by everyone.

The last 3 weeks of the season I was burnt out. Placing 4th & 2 upgrade points and at Wonderland & 13 at Tacchino Ciclocross I should been on top of the world but I wasn't. I knew at Tacchino I was getting sick, I should had gone home after the race and take care of myself so I wouldn't get sick but hung out watched the races drank plenty of beer. Every time I finished a beer some else would hand me another, I did have a great time. But two days later they post results on crossresults.com and I'm listed as a DNF! WTF! about two weeks later contacting the race officials everything was straighten out and I got my 2 up grade points. It is still listed on crossresult.com as dnf and it wrecked my average which still bums me but at least it's correct with USCF were it really matters.

I was sick for about week and was feeling better but I didn't race the MABRA Championship only because it was pouring rain and cold, I would had just gotten sicker. I would had love to race but I have to think of my health too.

By the time Capital Cross came up I was done, it wasn't even a big deal that I missed my race. Yea I did get excited at first but in about five seconds later I could careless. I was planning to try some B races for the 2009 season. The way I look at is I got a head start for next season.

On top of being burnt out, work has been very stressful and they change the schedule and mix up the classes making hard to grade anything letting alone have some sense of order. I had a new furnace put in and contactors have been in my house for 4 weeks ripping holes in the wall and floors and putting in new air ducts. Heavy dust every where, I'm sick again because of the dust. I have to mop every day. They flooded the toilet, just not cool. They should be out of here by friday, so guess what type of fun I'm going to have this weekend. I should have a cleaning party. At least thing should get back to normal after this week and get to relax. But beside the stress of everything in my life, meet someone new and be seeing her last couple of weeks now and enjoy spending time with her. I feel stress free and relax when she around. If you say that I miss my race because my mind was somewhere else (translate: meaning her) I wouldn't say you're wrong.

Time to relax and focus on something other than cross