Lancaster 2006
June 4th 2006
Lancaster, Pa
We had a very late start to the Lancaster race so that gave me plenty of time to just relax and think about what I had to do to be successful.
We left the hotel around 2pm for a 3pm start. It was about a 20min bike ride into town and the legs felt really good after the big effort from the day before at CSC.
The announcer gave me some love and called me “one of cyclist finest persons” that was really cool and made me smile and also helped humble me even more.
The race started fast because we have this long 3k down hill drag to the first climb and it’s like racing the last lap of a crit every lap. I remember from last year how to get to the front easy for the hill, so I just did the same thing. (It’s a secret)
Every lap I put myself in a position to start the climbs in the front and “sag climb the rest” and it worked every single lap. The legs are good, my mind is good, and everything is working out.
With 5 to go, my back started to hurt really bad and there where times when I could stretch it out and for a minute or two it would feel fine. With 3 to go, the pace got higher and I used more efforts to get over the hills. There was one particular hill we where going over and I was right on the front, as I saw a Navigator rider attack, I went to follow his wheel and it felt like I pulled something in my back and it hurt really bad. I suffered through that whole lap and when I got to the feed zone climb again, I couldn’t stretch my bike and I was really stuck. I pulled over to Laura Pate and she helped me off the bike. I knew that it hurt but as she unzipped my jersey and lifted up my under shit, there was a 3-4in hump in my lower back and she said “ oh my God” that really scared me. I put my hand back there to feel it and it hurt so bad I couldn’t even stand up straight.
People in the feed zone were really helpful by assisting me with getting ice, helping get off the bike and also giving there knowledge about what I need to do to fix the problem.
Danny Pate finished 5th and Taylor Tolleson finishing somewhere in the lead group also.
Lancaster, Pa
We had a very late start to the Lancaster race so that gave me plenty of time to just relax and think about what I had to do to be successful.
We left the hotel around 2pm for a 3pm start. It was about a 20min bike ride into town and the legs felt really good after the big effort from the day before at CSC.
The announcer gave me some love and called me “one of cyclist finest persons” that was really cool and made me smile and also helped humble me even more.
The race started fast because we have this long 3k down hill drag to the first climb and it’s like racing the last lap of a crit every lap. I remember from last year how to get to the front easy for the hill, so I just did the same thing. (It’s a secret)
Every lap I put myself in a position to start the climbs in the front and “sag climb the rest” and it worked every single lap. The legs are good, my mind is good, and everything is working out.
With 5 to go, my back started to hurt really bad and there where times when I could stretch it out and for a minute or two it would feel fine. With 3 to go, the pace got higher and I used more efforts to get over the hills. There was one particular hill we where going over and I was right on the front, as I saw a Navigator rider attack, I went to follow his wheel and it felt like I pulled something in my back and it hurt really bad. I suffered through that whole lap and when I got to the feed zone climb again, I couldn’t stretch my bike and I was really stuck. I pulled over to Laura Pate and she helped me off the bike. I knew that it hurt but as she unzipped my jersey and lifted up my under shit, there was a 3-4in hump in my lower back and she said “ oh my God” that really scared me. I put my hand back there to feel it and it hurt so bad I couldn’t even stand up straight.
People in the feed zone were really helpful by assisting me with getting ice, helping get off the bike and also giving there knowledge about what I need to do to fix the problem.
Danny Pate finished 5th and Taylor Tolleson finishing somewhere in the lead group also.
posted by Rahsaan Bahati @ 1:03 PM
1 Comments:
At 10:20 AM,
Jahluv said…
Speedy recovery brotha Bahati. I hope your back situation resolves itself quickly (and painlessly).
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