CORS firehill crit #1 and a recovery week

I'm experimenting with a slightly different way of recovering this week. My average month is the typical 3 weeks on with 1 recovery week. The typical average TSS numbers for an "on" week for me this season have been in the 750-930 range, where as a typical "recovery" week has been in the 350-400 TSS range. I've noticed that in general I feel pretty bad through the recovery week. Kind of like going along full throttle and letting it off too abruptly and getting way out of a good rhythm.
Anyway, what I'm going to try thats different is shoot for my typical TSS number for a recovery week, but substitute some intensity for volume. So far I think it's working well. I'm feeling better than I usually do at this point in the week but, time will tell.

This week also had the first CORS (Central Oklahoma Race Series) event of the year. The race was a criterium at the Firehill venue. I guess winter decided to return for the afternoon because it got really cold and windy. Andy and I took off work at 5:30 and battled the traffic up to Edmond. I'm not sure if they were starting early or we were running late, but we registered as soon as we got there, pinned on our numbers, got on the bikes as we had "kitted up" at the shop,and what I thought to get was a 15-20 minute warm up. I started into my first warm up lap and as I was climbing the hill the first time, the officials started staging up the race start. I guess a 3-4 minute warm up is better than nothing.

Going into this race I have to admit I felt a little under pressure as a team. When we formed our cat2 group, our goal was to establish a strong team of cat 2's from the Oklahoma City area to compete with the other strong regional cat 1/2 teams from around here. The only problem is, it instantly puts a target on your back with the other up and coming teams to try to prove themselves. So far this year I think we've done a pretty good job getting ourselves established and having some respectable results.

Anyway, the race went well for us. The goal was for a win and as many of the top points spots as possible. So we accomplished that with getting the top 3 positions. In hindsight, I think we could have accomplished the same thing in a more efficient manner, probably even lapping the field, but I think over all we did an excellent job and got this series started on the right track.

The next race is a time trial on Wednesday at Overholser. The infamous Red Bud is also this weekend.