first road race - Enebakk Rundt

[Trigress]

GRATULERER!

I didn't race - I heard from a friend that it was fully booked, and so I didn't race. Didn't feel too bad when I saw the rain either, and as my hubby said - "well, I don't feel like bleeding in a roundabout in Lørenskog anyway". Funnily enough I talked to one of the chaps at Sørensen Sykler today, and he'd done exactly that - bleeding in a roundabout in Lørenskog: 4 stitches...

I'm considering Askerrunden tomorrow, if I race that will be my second race ever, and my first since 2005!

Kos deg med strålende resultat, og ha en fortsatt fin helg!

[lph]

Go Trigress! Hope you do Askerrunden and have a great trip! Weather will be fantastic, at least.

(btw, hope that wasn't Lorentz we passed "bleeding in a roundabout in Lørenskog" He's really nice)

[Trigress]

It was Lorenz... Apparently he'd driven into someone who fell, then just as he was about to conclude that he was down, but seemingly ok-ish, then someone else landed on him, pedals in his back and neck. Unbelievingly he was smiling when he told me!

Lorenz has halfway talked me into joining Frøy though. I'd like to race, but not on my own (it's sad - I raced the whole of Smaalene alone, being a novice cyclist two weeks after getting my first road bike), so I think it would be nice to train with a club and then race with them. I checked out the starting list for Askerrunden, and it had only 12 in the amateur class, one of them being one of the best triathletes in Norway. So I chickened out for fear of racing alone. I'm such a crap cyclist it's hard to find someone on such an abysmal level!

The substitute motive for not racing today is that I have new speed trial bars that I'd like to try out...

[lph]

Oh darn. He's such a dear. He almost talked me into Frøy, too I have a colleague who rides with Frøy too, but I landed on Ceres since they're just a bit closer.

Riding with a club is a real experience, I can recommend it! I've learned lots of stuff I never knew, and I feel a lot more confident about maybe entering a race on my own now that I know "what's going on".

There are also some women in Rye, if you'd prefer. If you check the women's results for Enebakk Rundt you can get a feel for how many women are in which clubs, and at what level. Reckon we'll be getting race reports from you some time very soon now

[Trigress]

You now almost certainly have helped Lorenz talking me into Frøy. Frøy is my local club, they meet up in Hvervenbukta, which is suitable for me whether I come straight from work or from home. It's a big club too, so surely there must be more abysmal riders than me there? They also have spinning classes in the winter at SATS Hellerud, and that's quite a lot more doable than Studentidretten downtown. Lorentz also insisted that the girls in Frøy were a lot nicer (hyggeligere) than in Rye!

There appears to have been more accidents in Enebakk Rundt: my boyfriend just came home from Askerrunden, and one of his teammates from Follo had hit a car and completely wrecked his bike!

Thanks for the encouragement - I now feel very certain that I indeed will join a club. Have you seen the weather forecast? It's marvellous - sunshine a whole week!

[spindizzy]

lph:

I think that time is most excellent. Imagine a sunny day...(and protein!)