Aw, shucks
Here's what I learned this weekend (actually this morning) - always check the results. I suppose I should have learned that at Superweek last year when I was in a winning break for the entire race, and they still managed to miss my number.
Yesterday was the Lafayette Crit. I wasn't even sure I was going to do it, since I was more concerned with getting lotsa good hours on the bike to be ready for my 24 hours of craziness. I had a nice mountain bike ride in Marin on Saturday - the weather over there can be so incredible. Fog and gusting winds by the golden gate and in the headlands, and then sunny, baking climbs a half hour later just a tad north. And always awesome views. Then, when Sunday rolled around, I decided to ride out to Lafayette for the crit, to get a little extra time in.
When I got there, I found the Dolce Vita gals, who had kicked ass in the cat 3 race earlier - Janelle led out Starla for the win, and then hung on for 3rd place as well. Wow! They were doubling up and doing the p1/2/3 race too, so we hung out in the shade (it was hot) waiting for the start of our race. Apparently there were 41 starters in our field, a pretty good number. The course was interesting - a short downhill a long straight stretch into a nice almost 180 corner, and up a long gradual stretch to the finish line.
For most of the race I felt OK, but not great. Blah. The 1/2/3 races are worlds different from 3/4 races, that's for sure. I tried to stay pretty far up in the pack, but I never got up far enough in the last couple laps to really do well in the sprint. Miss Mary Ellen Ash, however, of the LBGRC team, was KILLING it. She got a couple of primes and then took the sprint at the end by no small margin. Impressive. So after the race I hung out and chatted a bit, and then rode home with Team Oakland Dave. Never even checked the results. Until I logged onto the ncnca racing site this morning to look at pics. Turns out I actually got 10th place - definitely nothing to brag about, but ironically, the prize list went 10 deep. Which means there's probably a $5 gift certificate somewhere that I missed out on. Oops!
Oh well. Happy Monday!
Yesterday was the Lafayette Crit. I wasn't even sure I was going to do it, since I was more concerned with getting lotsa good hours on the bike to be ready for my 24 hours of craziness. I had a nice mountain bike ride in Marin on Saturday - the weather over there can be so incredible. Fog and gusting winds by the golden gate and in the headlands, and then sunny, baking climbs a half hour later just a tad north. And always awesome views. Then, when Sunday rolled around, I decided to ride out to Lafayette for the crit, to get a little extra time in.
When I got there, I found the Dolce Vita gals, who had kicked ass in the cat 3 race earlier - Janelle led out Starla for the win, and then hung on for 3rd place as well. Wow! They were doubling up and doing the p1/2/3 race too, so we hung out in the shade (it was hot) waiting for the start of our race. Apparently there were 41 starters in our field, a pretty good number. The course was interesting - a short downhill a long straight stretch into a nice almost 180 corner, and up a long gradual stretch to the finish line.
For most of the race I felt OK, but not great. Blah. The 1/2/3 races are worlds different from 3/4 races, that's for sure. I tried to stay pretty far up in the pack, but I never got up far enough in the last couple laps to really do well in the sprint. Miss Mary Ellen Ash, however, of the LBGRC team, was KILLING it. She got a couple of primes and then took the sprint at the end by no small margin. Impressive. So after the race I hung out and chatted a bit, and then rode home with Team Oakland Dave. Never even checked the results. Until I logged onto the ncnca racing site this morning to look at pics. Turns out I actually got 10th place - definitely nothing to brag about, but ironically, the prize list went 10 deep. Which means there's probably a $5 gift certificate somewhere that I missed out on. Oops!
Oh well. Happy Monday!
posted by karla at 11:41 AM
3 Comments:
Have a great trip back to the Midwest! I'll be getting a new asshole ripped for me this weekend - hahaha. I definitely shouldn't have signed up.
have a great trip!
Karla-
I saw your name in the SuperWeek results...nice job! Are you still there for the weekend? I'm headed up tomr. morning (Saturday). Might see you there.
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