Now I will tell you about a different type of cycling that I am going through these last 2 weeks. Saturday equals race day so then I am usually quite positive and eager to break my own PB. That has been easy since I have never raced DLD or Raumerrittet before. =) This I can call the cycling cycle, for lack of a better term. Then Saturday night the next cycle starts...the post-race pondering cycle. Sometimes I am completely high on cycling and sometimes I am ready to give it up. Sunday starts the next cycle which I will call the how hard did you push yourself cycle. Last Sunday my back was in agony and my legs were not all that happy either. And then starts Monday which is the worst cycle of them all...the coma cycle. I am completely sedated for the entire day and nothing goes well. No amount of recovery drink or sleep will allow me to skip over this cycle. That is what MTB marathons do to my body.

Luckily, today is Tuesday which means happy happy cycle cycle even if I still have a bit of leg stiffness leftover. This is the day where I start to look forward to the next race...