Originally Posted by
fuhrermatt
I drink pretty regularly (I am in college and a fraternity) but I do make the effort not to drink the day before a race.
This.
I'm also an uber lightweight, and I have yet to have a real hangover. Race season means that I'll probably go out on thursday nights and then either friday or saturday night.
The last few weeks (and months) have taught me that I don't want to look back on my college days with regret of missed opportunity. I'm not going to race more than once a weekend, unless there's something crazy good going on. I will stack two races on the same day and that might actually make me pick races that I like less so that I can race two crits in one day or something of that sort.
This is something I do for fun, and it needs to continue being just that. The day I give up everything else for cycling, it stops being fun. That happened once already and will never happen again.