There I am looking like a tremendous workhorse in the cyan/grey/discovery colors at the front of the peloton. This was in kenosha, my first cat 3 race and it rained. We averaged 26.8 mph none the less and as the road are looking dry in the pic, this was probably at 3 laps to go, the initial sprint for position. I was sitting 3rd wheel through turns 1 and 2 and then on the back stretch I was sitting second wheel and then had to pull through 3 and 4 but on four I guess I slowed up alittle which threw off everyone behind me and then we had a nasty cross/tail wind that blew across from a side street and that's when I jumped, and held off the field by a clean (I mean daylight between the rear and the 2nd place finishers front) bike length for 200 or so meters, close to spinning out my 12...it was a good day
All right, I know it has been awhile as usual, and school is about to start so hopefully I can get my act together and write shorter posts more frequently. On Tuesday I had six wisdom teeth removed so I've been out of the action until yesterday when I went for my first one hour ride since surgery. The surgery itself was enjoyable (if such a thing is possible) because I only had local and n20 and the surgeons said to bring in my iPod if I wanted. Before the surgery I was somewhat depressed and burnt out and took four days off before riding two and then another three off after the surgery. arrg. My form hasn't diminished too much, I fatigue at 2.75 hours now instead of 3.5 and my sprinting seems a little slow, the legs don't rotate as fast as before, but I've got five more days to whip myself back into shape before the WI State Crit on Saturday in Elkhorn. Should be a good time with my family and a few of my friends coming out. It's the last race of the season and then I'm done.
There's a block party afterwards in Mari's neighborhood and I think that's where I will be headed.
School starts on the 3rd, well move in anyway, can't wait to ride with Finn, Jake, Sean, and Peter again to see how well our summer's paid off. In the mean time I face my last week of work and I'll be posting more pics from this year's Superweek periodically.
here's the victory at Kenosha
