Advice needed re Stage TT event

[RoadRaven]

So, is it nearly 9am in Oregon on Saturday?

Is it time to start sending our courageous Wahine strong focused energy?

[OakLeaf]

Not quite. It's now 5 a.m. there.

Sending energy for Wahine to get stronger and stronger in her last hour or so of sleep before the race! Good luck girl!

[LBTC]

Sending fast, strong butterflies to Wahine for all the stages of the race. You rock, yoda!!!

Hugs, too
~T~

[Wahine]

Well. I made it through the first day. I had trouble staying close to my LT on the first stage - 25.8 miles with rolling hills. But stayed there for my second stage - 8 miles steady climb of avg grade 6%.

All I have to say is that I am way out of my league with these people. There are only about 10 women in total at this gig and only 3 in my AG. At the end of stage 1 I was 2nd in our group then the 3rd place lady did not show up for stage 2. So as long as I finish tomorrow I get second place. I don't think I have a hope in heck of catching the girl in front of my, she had me by about 4 minutes on stage 1 and I'm sure she smoked me on stage 2.

Thanks for all the well wishes. I'm off to bed now to passout until tomorrow.

[RoadRaven]

Wahine! You survived Day 1!

Awesome!

Thank you for finding the time and energy to log in and type a quick update.

Today will be the hard one (haha, you thought you already had a hard day, huh?)

I meant to ask you if you had ever tried the cold/hot/cold... recovery

Have an ice bath (or for me, its a cold shower) to stop the bleeding in your muscles. And then a warm one to help recovery.

Hope you had some kind of arnica based massage cream rubbed into your legs - or gave yourself a self massage before your crashed.

Wishing you a successful warm up to disperse the build-up from yesterday and trusting you can just settle in for the long haul today and stay focused. If I lived in the Northern Hemisphere, I would def have considered coming over to watch this event and to cheer you on!