The last couple weeks have been slow due to weather but things are warming up. I had a great ride with the club yesterday and I'm (supposed to be)taking the day off today since I have a race tomorrow. It's calling for thunderstorms early morning but I think it's going to clear off before the race actually starts.
The race I'm going to was supposed to be a time trial, but this year they've made it a circuit race. I was really wanted to do a time trial this early in the season to get my feet wet right off the bat. My tt bike build is actually done for right now as I bought pedals and a cassette to go on my old sub-105 Shimano wheel. Well I bought a cassette for my tt bike, but actually just finished putting the new one on my road bike because I like shiny upgrades. :)
Oh right! I applied for a category change the other day and they gave it to me. If you check the race history on the right you can see that I am now a CAT4. I'm really excited because my season has finally started! Move out of the way 4s, CAT3 here I come.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
2009 Northwest Arkansas Spring Classic (Cat5 23rd out of a lot)
Sorry for the late race update. I've been really really busy with life lately and haven't had much time to really sit down. Um, I don't really have much to say about this race really. I woke up the day of the race and felt terrible. I was coughing really hard and felt like I had a fever. I honestly shouldn't have went at all but I said screw it because I was awake and I had already asked the day off.
A couple people from the club went over to Prairie Grove for the race too; Chad Payne and Paul were the only two that went. It was nice having team members there and it's started to feel like the season has begun.
I don't know how many people were registered to race but I had heard that there were right at 50 CAT5s but the results are all screwed up on the USA Cycling website. Before the race, I took a shot of Dayquil to keep the coughing down. It actually worked until the last three or four miles. I'm 95% sure I would have won the race if I hadn't started coughing as bad as I did towards the end so this race goes on the pile of other races I should have won.
Anyway I won't be racing sick again anytime soon.
View the full race results here:
https://www.usacycling.org/results/index.php?permit=2009-470
A couple people from the club went over to Prairie Grove for the race too; Chad Payne and Paul were the only two that went. It was nice having team members there and it's started to feel like the season has begun.
I don't know how many people were registered to race but I had heard that there were right at 50 CAT5s but the results are all screwed up on the USA Cycling website. Before the race, I took a shot of Dayquil to keep the coughing down. It actually worked until the last three or four miles. I'm 95% sure I would have won the race if I hadn't started coughing as bad as I did towards the end so this race goes on the pile of other races I should have won.
Anyway I won't be racing sick again anytime soon.
View the full race results here:
https://www.usacycling.org/results/index.php?permit=2009-470
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