My last race of the season is tomorrow afternoon at 3 pm, at Pepper Place here in town. I am glad that my season is almost done because I'd like to take it easy and ride my bike for purposeless fun for a while. Sometime last week, I strained a quad muscle and it still isn't better, despite lots of massage and ice. This is Murphy's law. And typical of my idiocy, because I usually overdo it and then have to scale back. It's good that I have the willpower to be motivated and suffer much pain during training, but my body does not comply with that at this point in my 'racing career'.

I'm not in the mood for a criterium right now, so hopefully I can get into that frame of mind by tomorrow. I find endurance races to be less mentally stressful than criteriums (but more physically stressful) because riders drop off due to attrition instead of aggressive attacks. I'll have to find something to be mad about since that seems to help me to race better.