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| Tuesday, 08 September 2009 06:22 |
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I’ll start with saying that I couldn’t finish the Tour of Puebla. I DNF the 3rd stage with only about 10-15 km to go due to very intense cramps that crashed me out and didn’t let me get up again.. Somehow I just couldn’t ride through them this time, and trying sent me to the ground…. When that happened the group I was riding with had about five riders, and we were fighting for 15th place on the stage. It seemed like it was going to be a decent day on the bike, but it wasn’t… I end up on the ground for about 30 minutes, until my team carried me up to the car, and took me to the finish… It was a big disappointment for me to come this far and DNF. But I wasn’t going to let myself carry with this throughout the rest of the week. Instead, I told myself that my job now was going to help my team as much as I can off the bike, and help them have the best race possible. So, I took all week as an opportunity to help my team doing the "sougnier" thing. And I still had a great time, and finished off the week super tired, and happy.
Going back now to what might have been the reason of what happened to me on the bike during that stage, was just a combination of many things that went wrong two weeks, and one week before the race. I got a stomach bug during training camp two weeks before the race, and had to take medicines, and couldn’t do much during the week before the race. Things like this happen sometimes, and you just got to deal with them the best way possible...
Now I am back in Guadalajara spending my last few days here, before flying back to San Diego. Time to watch the Vuelta, and enjoy what might be the end of my racing season this year. We'll see...
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