Westside Worlds is just so fun!

Wednesday is the best night of the week.  We had another great Westside World's last night.  Adam was late in showing up because he was giving a Team Type 1 talk and Lance had trouble with the gears on his bike.  Without those guys I decided to just get to the front of the group and hold a steady Zone 5 or 5+ (on sprint and KOM points) pace.

I have been feeling 'not so fast lately' and I was happy that I could pretty much keep that HR for the entire ride, but I was not as fast as I would have liked to be.  I need to buckle down these next few weeks.

Check it out on the stravas: http://app.strava.com/activities/11908317

I am not 100% sure whether I will be doing Wilderness 101 yet, but I do hope to do quite a few XC MTB races coming up!  I just hope these heart palps go away... So far I have not had any since the day after Hilly Billy... lets keep it that way.

Hilly Billy Roubaix

Well Hilly Billy Roubaix didn't go so well for me.  I was having a very hard time holding onto the leaders, they dropped me, then the chase group dropped me.  This all happened before mile 10.  Then at mile 10 I was flying down a gravel hill and I hit a huge ditch in the road.  I went over my handle bars, crashing hard.  I got back up and I thought I could keep racing until I noticed that my knee was very swollen.  I could not move it.  Luckily JR (race promoter) was right around the corner in a truck, he gave me some ice and I called it a day.

Since then I have recovered with no problems.  I just have a huge bruise on my knee.

I am not sure why I was dropped so easily at the beginning of the race, I should have been able to hang onto the leaders.  I have been having some pre-race heart palpitations on nights before races recently.  I think it is due to being nervous or anxious about the coming race.  Those heart palps make me feel weak.  I am working on resolving this issue so that I can continue to race and enjoy it!

Thom Parsons of cyclingdirt was nice enough to interview me post race.. even though I was a DNFers.

http://bigbikesmedia.cyclingdirt.org/coverage/249501-Hilly-Billy-Roubaix/video/643981-Patrick-Blair-Taken-out-by-a-pot-hole

Just For Fun

I was inspired to create because my buddy Lance Byrd made a super awesome blog that I know is going to be super awesome because he has tons of crazy in depth analysis abilities when it comes to cycling!  Check it out: lancefun.blogspot.com.  This blog's purpose is for me to have a place to write any random thoughts or ideas that I have about cycling... good times!!!