Whew! Thunderstorms threatened but stayed away for today's 65 mile road race ending in 6 laps of a 1.6 mile circuit. There was a brief section of dirt road that seemed...crazy. The race went from fairly wide paved roads into a quick right turn onto a narrow dirt, gravel road that decended in a shady, tree-covered, nastily pot-holed asphalt section until it finally turned onto the smooth circuit. I drove the van following the caravan with my jaw dropped. I couldn't imagine how that section must have felt.
The group was pretty much all together going into the circuit, but some near crash (?) in the first lap seemed to establish some separation with the last third of the field. Carrie and Katie both survived that mishap and stayed on, but a gap that couldn't be covered left Carrie with the chasing group.
Katie mixed it up in the crazy, packed sprint and finished somewhere in the middle--we think top 30 but as of right now, there are no official results posted. Carrie managed to win her field's sprint, not losing too many spots after slipping off the back.
4-5 mile Individual Time Trials start at 9am tomorrow morning. Flat and hopefully not windy! Need to get some sleep.
1 comment:
thx for the updates. love reading them and look forward to hearing about the next stage. TTs. ew. :p
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