Originally Posted by
TMonk
With a three hr drive each way??? Yikes. You guys didn't want to just slum it in a motel somewhere?
With better traffic this morning it was only two hours on the way out.. but I have a kitty to feed at home, and it wasn't worth it to get our cat sitter to come over, so yeah I just drove both days. Life of an amateur bike racer..
Today was good, same teammate won again. He's unstoppable! (he slummed it in a fancy sprinter van overnight, maybe that's the secret??)
The crit course today was different than most - started on a short ~6% climb, a few turns (including some busted-up pavement on a bridge), then a STEEP downhill in to a tight corner.. exciting! Actually I didn't like the corner.. of course in a warmup lap you hit it with ease, but in the race it was hard (for me anyway) to find the right line and not feel like I was gonna die and/or hit the hay bails/exposed concrete wall on the outside. Maybe I'm just getting old and scared.
Out of a field of ~30 there was a break of five, my chase group of four, and scattered groups behind us. Finished 7th on the day.