Brad Huff Cycling

Maybe all this bull shit talk of being a hard ass and I’ll show them is just a cover up for a helpless athlete that can’t seem to get out of his own way. Track is this different animal that is totally a mental game with yourself as you sit around for extended chamios training time thinking if you should do one more effort to achieve that magical warm up that will have you so tuned for your event that even you will not believe how great your legs feel once you are moving. I can say that I was totally attempting to talk myself through the fact that this ain’t my first rodeo and how I can suffer for a messily 4km I mean come on 4km I can kill that. Then you get out there and it is like drinking antifreeze for dogs, you think it is so sweet and tasty and you just do not want to stop then before you know it KABOOM game over your dead in the water(antifreeze). For me it was this scenario today in the pursuit, I started off well holding my times (which were very conservative and slow) well….well that is for at least 1km of the 3km event, I keep telling my self to just fucking man up and suffer, I hear the lap time, it is raising(I am going slower), fuck Brad come on, steady, steady, KABOOM! As Andy Sparks yells for me to suffer I can only look him in the eyes and shake my head, it’s over, well in 5 more laps it will be over, but for me it is over. I had crossed my fingers and hoped to not totally embarrass myself today????…..well at least Taylor Phinney made up for my lack luster performance by posting a 4:29 in just his 2nd time every doing a competition pursuit(oh ya he had an opening kilo of about a 1:07!!!!), Taylor won’t win today’s World Cup Individual Pursuit, but mark my words that his cycling career will continue to be jaw dropping for years and years to come! What a great kid and what a great family.
Track Track Track!!!

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