Damn

This is kind of embarrassing:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross.php?id=cross/2008/oct08/podboreny08

Again, I didn't get lapped 4 times, I got lapped with 4 laps to go. There has to be a better way to score lapped riders that reflects when they got lapped. I have to work on that.

It would also be great if you could put little self-made notes that they put in the results next to your name, huh? "Crashed into tree. Broke finger. Broke bike. Stopped racing." That's the thing with results. They're absolute. You think you're alone out there, languishing in the back of the field in the middle of nowhere, feeling like your result doesn't matter, that no one's watching. Then all of a sudden you're listed on Cyclingnews as getting lapped 4 times in some international event. That'll teach me.

Once I crashed and was out of the top 15 or 20, I felt like I was in 100th place, and mentally I was already on the plane home. The course was really difficult, and really dangerous. "Old time cyclo-cross" Parbo called it after the race. Normally I'm good on courses like that so I tried to stay motivated. But Tabor was such a peak, and this race was an afterthought. I decided not to risk death and just rode a safe tempo, waiting for Dlask to put me out of my misery so I could go home.

The past 24 hours has taken me from Prague, to Paris, to Boston, to Portland, and now today on to Northampton. I've been so busy worrying about my own racing that I've barely mentioned that I have this little race weekend to oversee. I can't wait for my rest week next week.

Still have lots of stories about Tabor for you. Soon.