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Hey Blog-
Long time, no talk huh?
Totally.
Anyway, things have been crazy for me, but in the greatest way I could ever imagine.
Between school, training and the shop, by the end of the day, I am totally whooped.
But I decided that last weekend was totally the weekend to start the racing season and get out the racing legs. So Rodney Hill and I threw the bikes on the roof rack and headed down south to do some shreddin' at Great Forest Park in St. Louis.
Before I get to much farther into this, I love being a Cat 2, no more getting up and leaving before the sun rises.
Anyway, we loaded up and shipped out at 10 am. Got down to the park by 12:30 pm, our race was at 1:45. So we had plenty of time to pin on numbers and handle other business.
Went out did a pretty simple warm-up. We had a 70 +5 crit, so I didn't need to be super hot at the very beginning. So I meandered around the park... Super gorgeous park, I must say. All the information said it is bigger than central park - I believe it.
Anyway, race started; about 50 guys in the peloton. Nothing major, but not small either.
The course was super phlat, super phast and super phun. Absolutely no real turns; literally pedaled through every corner. As a result, it was safe. We only had one crash, and it was on a straight away ... dumbass. Oh well, he suffered the ass rash - ruined his kit.
I was pretty pleased with my performance; I used this race as a training race - getting amped up for Hillsboro... So I made quite a few attacks to try and thin the pack out, get a break going, stuff like that. But no avail, so after I blew myself apart for the first 45 minutes, I tucked back into the pack and just sat in and enjoyed the ride.
Like I said, the course was too flat and too fast to really get anything to stick. I got one break going that was promising, everyone was represented; mesa, dogfish, big shark, gateway. But it jsut got sucked back in... by some one's own teammates.... Awesome!
We averaged 27.4 Mph and an average heart rate of 184...No slouch of a race.
But back to the drawing board for training, Going to head up to Kenosha this weekend - do some ABR Hard X Core Racing.
Take it easy
