Anyway, I didnt post results from the last races I did about 3 weeks ago. I threw down 17th and 9th place finishes in some local crits here in Wisconsin (the Chiropractic Crit and the Sussex Crit). I managed to make the move both days, which was exciting. I also managed to hang with the move for a while both days, but then I also managed to get dropped from the move both days. Saturday I got dropped with about 20 minutes left and was then gobbled up by what was remaining of the field (about 40 started each race). I hung out there until the finish and came in an unexciting 17th. Sunday was better as I got dropped from a loaded break with 10 minutes left in the race. The break had some of the guy that animated the Memorial Day Weekend races and some other guys that routinely take me behind the woodshed and brutally beat me during the collegiate season...I was pretty happy just to be there and then hold off the pack to place in the money. That $30 made my weekend....Jenn did really well that weekend, too...in fact, way better than me (I have a strong feeling that she is pretty much always going to do better than me from here on out..perhaps even become too good to hang out with the likes me me). She won her first race ever by lapping the field solo Saturday and then she took 3rd Sunday in the field sprint. Shes pretty much a huge badass now, way more badass than I can aspire to be. I suppose I need to start taking tips from her...
Now, I am here in Wisconsin again for the Tour of Americas Dairyland. I am almost thinking it was a $200 donation to Wisconsin racing...but I should really just look at it as an investment of form and race experience. While it would've been nice to stay in Iowa and have a chance to do well, I am here in Wisco to take a beating. My goal is to just finish all the races, if I do that I'll be happy. Of course, I'll give her the 'ole college try and take my chances when I get in a position to do so. Hopefully these won't be as hard as I am making them out to be in my mind, but the amount of quality riders here should set things up for some fast, hard racing. Racing at these speeds can only help me out in the future; either to make other races seem just plain easy, or so that I can get to the point where I can be in the position to win a races like these.
The end of the blog post is here and I have realized that it is pretty much devoid of any sort of humor, which is really kind of lame. I could quote the big lebowski, but I already did that in the title for no reason. I could just point out that I feel really worldly as I have been watching cycling online in just about any language aside from english and have been watching ultimate fighting in spanish....soon enough Ill be able to understand what the hell theyre saying
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