Even with the Intelligentsia Cup for the last week I took some time for myself and jetted out from our South Chicago road race and made it to the northside (1:30 through downtown Chicago at the end of the workday in traffic) to race the Madison at the track. While I am not at race form it was nice to be able to fit into the madison jersey and for once not always be the slow guy. My prom date (we call it the prom here) is my good friend and riding buddy. He was a cat 2 on the road and track for a lot of his life then life kind of got in the way. He's on a lot of meds that limit his HR and he's not in his ideal form but he still rides like a 2 in brief moments of glory that tend to leave me stranded and scratching my head.
We had a lot of fun. Not the story everyone here wants but *shrug*. Nice to see mass start racing return. I'm the non-bearded one if you were wondering.
EDIT: Officially we came in 5th. ...and yes there were 5 teams.
