Part 1: Racing

The first race was the Farmisville Road Race in PA. This 80km race was 16 laps of a pretty flat circuit with an uphill finishing straight. Unlike all the surrounding roads, it was also sheltered from the wind, making for a pretty easy race. We started trying to follow most of the moves, but not much was happening when we did anything. It seemed the whole field was watching for these Team Type 1 pro riders who were fresh of Tour of California to light the race up. Though the truth of the matter was of the 4 TT1 riders (Me, Simon, Matt from the Devo team and Andy from the elite team), we had 2 cat.2s and one rider who had only arrived in the country 2 days earlier and still thought it was e in the morning.
The end result of the race was pretty predictable. A group eventually got away without any of us in it. I decided to try to bring it back so Simon could have a go in the sprint, but it didn’t happen. We managed to pop Matt off the back when I was on the front as well; oops. Good team work there.

The 2nd race was the Tradzone training crit Maryland. The scenario was almost identical to the day before. Except today was made a bit more fun by the horrible cold and rain, as seen by the amount of clothing on for an hour crit. I was, as put by my loyal teammate “left for dead by your teammates”. That’s probably a bit of an exaggeration; I wasn’t left for dead, just barely breathing.

Looking happy in layers of clothes after the crit.


Sitting in the crit

I'm mot sure if I'm attacking, moving up, back or what's going on here.

Matt looking a bit frazzeled after the race

Simon wasn't too happy looking before the stage