C-Cup #3

So It was cold as hell. I lost feeling in my hands on the warm up(not really much of a warm up). On the plus side my knees were frozen. I dropped my chain off the top of the crankset on coffee run riding on saturday, and smashed my knee into the bolts on my shifter/brake clamps. It was really sore to ride. So that was a bonus.

I think I went out a little hard, I felt like I burned too many matches in the first half lap, but I was in the lead pack. I think I was last in the pack and there was like 6 of us. I just didnt think that I would survive at that pace, so I let off a bit. I came through the first lap, didnt get a bottle cus it was then that i noticed I almost hadnt drank at all. That mistake bit me in the ass later on. I was back and forth on the second lap with some guys from Two Wheel express(including Zoltan Pop who I raced against in road last year, and is a funny name so I always reconise him in results). Comming through for my last feed I effed up and dropped my bottle, I just kept going as I didnt want to loose too much. that hurt having nothin to drink. 3rd lap I was feeling effing great for the first half. Though not having that bottle sucked. I was making up alot of time, and had pulled the two wheel guys back. Then we ran into the Master Sport Women(just for Erins sake, it wasnt all of them, just the slow ones). Nothin against them, just annoying having your flow interupted by them. I just rode as strong as I could, turned out that Zoltan had faded a bit, and had I pushed harder on the last bit, I might have caught him. Ohwell.

I also found out that not only do I have enough points to get up to expert, but so does Erin and Ange. I dont think they want to go up to expert, but I hope they do. I also think that Lee has enough points to get to Elite now. Good on him for killin the Senior Ex feild. I was check lap times too, I figure that if you add about 3 minutes to the average lap time for having to do bone shaker, I was right around the same average lap time as spak. I am considering upgrading for Boler, though i might wait until mountain view.