Jana Richtrova

Time trial Tuesday 🌺edition and probably my fav 📸 over the years thanks to Scott Flathouse who rumor has it will be back in Kona this year 😀🥳🔥

The rules (no more bottles down the jersey) have changed, equipment continues to get more & more dialed in BUT I can guarantee you that the Queen K 🛣️ remains the same - hot, windy & unpredictable!
Madame Pele 🌋🌬️🔥 will decide what the day brings and for those that say the bike course is boring; you have either never done it or got super lucky and had tailwind all the way around the course 😳

My one tip for the Queen K 🌺 - become one with your bike 😀 Be super comfortable, know how to handle your bike with ease, stay as relaxed as possible and let your bike do its job 🫡 Let it be the ⛵️beneath your wings & believe …. Always believe in yourself 🌺

Now you see me & now you don’t 🪄(swipe for evidence 🙊)

Just a regular summer Saturday and me on a “sweaty” mission 😂🥵🚀💦 because Texas 🤠 knows how to turn up the heat & humidity … as hard as it is, I am finally able to hit my “winter” numbers in the inferno without wanting to crawl out of my skin as evidenced by my CORE Body Temperature staying in “czech” ✅

It’s hard to watch your numbers 📉 for months when you know the reason isn’t your fitness but rather the straight up oppressive conditions but if you keep showing up and trusting the process, you body will eventually adapt 😀

Stay sweaty my friends 😂

I am usually a “one toe a time” kind of 🧜‍♀️ BUT occasionally I dive straight in 😬 What about you? Lets hear it 👇

When at first you don’t succeed, try again! After yesterdays 💩 show, I showed that “flat tire monster 😈” who da boss is 😜

4 beautiful & strong hours on 2 wheels 🚀 My legs were on 🔥 - the good kind! It seems like it’s been forever since a long ride felt this effortless and power was flowing :) The weather could have something to do with it - I mean it almost felt a bit fresh this am 😂 aka 85% humidity & 71% dew point vs the usual 90+ & 76+ … I think this is called heat adaptation when 90+ degrees feels fresh 🙊

Moral of the story - keep showing up, keep working, you never know when it will all click 😎

1 flat for me, 2 flats for Ally Catullo today 🙈

Looks like the universe didn’t want us to ride our bikes today.

Pretty sure I went over an industrial size tack that not only went right through a new heavy duty tire, that sent sealant flying everywhere 🙈, but it also scratched the 💩 out of my frame 😭 … like WHY! 🤬😡🤬

I did learn though that I need to put a helluva lot more air in the tube in order to get the tire to seed properly (which I didn’t) so it was a bumpy ride home 😂🙈😳 and apparently one needs big muscles to get the tubeless stem out too 😆 (it happened eventually)

When we did pump it up to proper tire pressure later, air was escaping anyways & putting gel packet in the tire is above my pay grade 😂🤷🏻‍♀️ sooooo yeah - it was A DAY!

Buuuut in the end we made it back safe and sound , me on another bike thanks to Jorgee Martinez who showed up along the route with a road bike in his car so I finished my ride on the roadie 😂

Let’s hope the next long ride is a lot less eventful 🙏

P.S Thank you Ana Masocatto Andrade for helping and documenting the mess 😂📸😆

In line to refuel ⛽️ for the way back home! 2:30h in - 2:30h left 😬 I nearly traded my 🚀 for this little 🚜 (I mean if you look carefully, it did even come with a bit of hydration 🙊🍺😳) but I realized that wouldn’t cover my 120g of carbs an hour 😂🐷🙋🏻‍♀️ and let’s be honest - I would never trade my 🚀 anyways … and just like that, another long, sweaty ride is in da 📚 and the youngins are kicking butt and getting stronger week by week too 😀💪🔥 Ally Catullo Gaby Woll