Less than one week to race

I just woke up to satisfied feeling legs. Not too beat up from the off-road jog yesterday. It's good to now know my muscles can take it, and I'll be able to sit at my desk comfortably the days after a jog :-)

As a "retired" MTB racer, I don't plan on racing much more than the National races I can ride my bike to as a warm-up. Still, that's 4 of them within 25km, 3 of which in June, on top of another cool event, also in June.
But, the Honselersdijk race, traditionally pretty good for me (I even won it once as part of a local series), comes really early this year.
I haven't ridden a bike off-road since November, 3rd place in Rijswijk. And on-road, it's been limited to the 2km commute to work, and some weekend the 39km commute to visit friends. But the last of those was many weeks ago as well.
This should be interesting. Lower level of racing, record low level of cycling hours in the legs.
The June races I intend to try and win as part of my schedule towards greatness next winter. This one, I hope to not look too stupid. The (elite races) promoter jokingly almost refused to put down my name for the Fun (hobby) class, I as beat him in November, that last day I rode off-road.

2 years ago I had a similar situation with the first event of the MTB season, a 45km beach race. I'd only been on Crosskates the weeks before it, but I seemed to be about as strong as ever. Like the body weight loaded training help build some cycling muscles as well. I'd welcome that, of course. It felt quite easy to race a bike that day, having a seat to sit on. I rode alone for 25km in 4th and then started the usual route back down the field, to finish 12th. For October, you'll see another beach race on the calendar. I hope to have the guts to take part there, I've never done it. Praying for tail winds which suit me so well...