A lil update

I have took some time off since I have been home......I started to ride again yesterday, and I def. feel refreshed. Here is what the next part of the season has instore for me.
I am racing in Rome, GA like the weekend before Fitchburg. I will only be doing the ttt, and the crit, to loosen up for my next race which is Fitchburg Longsjo Classic, which is the biggest junior stage race in the country. I won a stage there last year, and finished 9th overall so hopefully I can improve from that, but the main focus for this race is to tune up the fitness, for one of my biggest races of the year. Which is L'Abitibi in Canada......It is a UCI junior stage race....There are no big mountians in this race so I feel like I can do well there. Next is nationals, and well nationals is nationals.

aj

Ky

Kentucky turned out better then i thought. My legs felt a little better although not 100%. I opted not to do the tt, instead i opened my legs with the crit, which scared many racers away because it was like scary sketchy........I ended up suprising myself by winning it! The next day was the road race. I was working for my teammate Ty Magner, so part of my jobs was to cover the early moves. I ended up in a move with Alder from hottubes........We built up a led over 1 minuete. Shortly before the 2nd climb, Andrew Barker and Gavon Manion bridged up to us. At this point I started sitting on more, knowing that my current fitness was not going to hold up well against my 2 new breakaway companions.......Anyways the pack caught us on the 2nd climb and I was dropped, but caught up to the pack, and proceded to chase a whole lotta shit down.........When we hit the final climb of the day I punched my ticket and cruised on in.........Ty road strong staying with the select group untill the finish where he cramped but still managed a top 15.
I'm now resting up, getting ready for the 2nd half of the season, which includes races such as Fitchburg, L'abitibi, and Nationals.....
looking forward to getting back in shape,

aj

So..........

I attempted a race this weekend......Notice I said attempted! I was DROPPED 20 miles into it.............Yea I have been training like hell and finally hit the wall....I never really new about overtraining, i always heard people talk about it but I never actually suffered from it untill now......It all started by doing 2 huge pro stage races in may....I felt shitty after those and following my coach's advice I took it easy for a while.......Well I started to feel better so against my coachs advice I hammer in the mountians last week...and I serously felt it in the race......I just couldn't respond to any hard efforts.....Im really bummed because next week is the junior world quilifier......I'm taking it easy this week and hoping to get my legs back under me, with a slight miricule i will be back for KY.........At this point all one is able to do is look at the positive side of this debacle....I learned my body's limits and after I recover I think I will be stronger then ever.....Definatly in time for nationals.......
A wise dude once told me..."You win some you lose some." Hopefully the one I lost was Roan Groan and not KY.
Another wise soul told me "Shit happens, you gotta flush it down the tolit and move on."
So I'm taking the positives, getting some masasuses, and moving forward.

AJET