Posted by mattcrane | Filed under Uncategorized
Hello Estranged Blog Readers,
It has been a little while since I last wrote anything! I hope you all didn’t miss me too much, although with all the great new content up here on MissingSaddle, it is unlikely that my neglect has put you out too badly. For further reading on expectation regarding my abilities of task completion, please refer to August 2008, “Calculating Crane.”
Well, it has been a rather tepid span of months following my last post which concerned my trip to the Tour of Malaysia-tepid is good, I am a professional athlete-so I will not delve too far into catching up on the usual goings on. Beginning sometime after my last team race (Philly) and now (break time is a good thing), my happening have strayed not much further than training and sleep, training and eating, and for a change on certain days, eating and sleep. But besides that, I have mainly been focused on training, eating, and sleeping.
So with all of that excitement behind us, we can now focus on the more pedestrian elements of the here and now. Having prepared well and dutifully for my return to NRC racing last week in Elk Grove, I was very happy to get back into things and be able to have an impact on the racing in some way, largely in the form of ill fated but nontheless neccessary breakaway attempts. Since returning from racing 265km of criteriums in two days (lets face it, a road course of 150km over a 10km circuit with 28 corners is really just a long and confusing crit), I have been slow in bouncing back, but am happy and confidant that the speedwork I got in from ramping back to speed from each corner will serve me well in the upcoming events.
I recently had a chance to do some testing with Mike Geraud at the A2 Windtunnel in Charlotte, NC (http://www.a2wt.com/), which coincided well with being up there for the First Presbytarian Crit last weekend. The good news is that my skinny little body is very aerodynamic on the bike, although that seems to be status quo as Mike and I couldn’t find many places to make significant changes that might provide me with a “free lunch of speed.” However, the whole process was really informative, and Mike was able to shave a bit of drag away by moving my arms closer in. We also found the optimal position for me to hold my head, so I can now focus with full confidence on making the legs fast, knowing that the chassis is good to go.
Well, I will try to be more dilligent about posting in the upcoming weeks, as there are plenty of good races coming up. Also, a thank you to the Cranes of Elk Grove for reading my blog and reminding me to write a post!
Take Care
Crane
Pics from Charlotte crit courtesy of Hansley Photos
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Nicole Says:
August 13th, 2009 at 8:04 amThankfully, RSS exists to make low maintenance blog relationships possible.
Also, glad to see the knee is healed (healing?) and you’re back to racing.
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Crane Says:
August 13th, 2009 at 4:18 pmThanks Nicole,
Knee is all good function wise, but regarding form it looks a little worse for the wear…Thanks for keeping up your end of the low maintenance blog relationship!
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Henry D Says:
August 19th, 2009 at 2:18 pmMATT!!!! I glad to know things are movin”.
