Tuesday Night Velodrome
Wednesday, 04 June 2008
Tuesday track is about endurance training. There were two scratch races (crits) for each category. If 10 women/juniors, we get our own race. I think we had about 9, so Larry made it a women's race and let the Cat. C guys race too, but told them they couldn't dictate the race, i.e., sit in and do not attack. 30 laps. I thought it was going to be 15 so a quick mental adjustment.
Roll off the line and I felt OK. Goals for the race were to sit in the pack more and try to hold a wheel, not laying off 4-5 feet. The first about 10 laps I did OK, staying with the main pack (a Proman gal and two guys had rode off the front pretty quickly), but after about 10 laps, I fell off the pace as my legs were TIRED. Sat up and rolled around the rail waiting for someone who had fallen off earlier and then we picked up a gal who has been racing for years. We got a paceline going but one person couldn't quite hold on and then we picked up junior boy and tried to pick up new guy in white (please, not a good look), but he was a little clueless on pulling off on the corners, then Donna picked up the pace and after about a lap or two, I couldn't hang. With a few laps to go, the main pack came by and I got on with them to the finish.
Bailed on the second race since my legs were toast and we are going back tonight. Got to chat with friends and watch the As and Bs race. Two cookie prime laps in Ben's races and he won both, so post-race it was a trip to the taco truck and 2 carne asada tacos and cookies for dessert. Fun night and met my goals of trying to stay on a wheel instead of riding 30 laps solo.
they were sadly out of cookies by the time the second B race was done.
Posted by: beth | Thursday, 05 June 2008 at 12:19 PM