Sunday, March 30, 2008
Assault on the Carolinas
I decided to brave the cloudy skies, the chance of rain, and cold weather to do the Assault on the Carolinas. Part of me wishes that I would have not have done it. We started the ride and it was a good fast pace until we hit the first big climb of the day Walnut Cove. That climb separated the field into a bunch of different groups. I managed to go over the top with the lead group of about 25 guys. After the climb it started sprinkling and then it started lighting. After that the skies opened up and we got poured on. For about 20 miles I could barely see in front of me. I made it to Caesars Head with the lead group of about 25 riders. I Rode up the climb at my own pace with 2 other guys and came over the top about 5 minutes back from the lead group. We got to where we were supposed to turn and the policeman made us turn right instead of left. Oh man that caused some problems. We ended up having to ride an extra 12 miles and and extra 35 minutes. It was still a great ride and I felt really good. I'm excited about this up coming weekend and racing in Rock Hill.
Monday, March 24, 2008
This Past Weekend
Was pretty exciting. I went riding with Adam and Billy on Saturday. I rode from my house in mills river to meet them in Fletcher. We decided we would ride to Asheville and climb Town Mountain. A long the way we climbed some other pretty steep hill and Adam and I did intervals up it. Its always fun to go out and ride with a couple of teammates and chit chat. Im not going to go into great detail about the ride we did but here is a picture looking down the parkway after climbing Town Mountain.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Finally!!
I got my upgrade to cat 3. Im pretty stoked. Looking forward to racing 3's in Rock Hill. Nothing new lately, just been riding and training. Hopefully something interesting will come up and I can post it on here.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Last Weekend of Greenville Spring Series
Sunday March 9th
This race went awesome for me. It was at the Donaldson Center and I figured since it was free to enter I would do the Juniors race. In the first 2 miles of the race I attacked hard and was off the front. I thought to myself "sweet i'm off the front, but wait can I hold it"? Turns out I could. By the end of the first lap the field was no where in sight. By the middle of the second lap I figured all I had to do was hold my pace and no one would catch me. Third lap started and I knew I had the race won. I came across the finish line and out my hands in the air. It was the coolest thing that has ever happened. I had always want to win by a solo breakaway. I waited for 8 minutes before the field came across the finish line. So far the season is going good for me. My next race will be in April in Rock Hill.
The Win!
Me Hammering
Sat March 8th
Todays race was the River Falls Road Race. The course really suited me. It was a 6 mile loop with a one mile climb at the finish. I felt really good today and thought I would have good results. Well I was wrong. At the start of the race it was sleeting and really cold. I was wondering exactly what I was doing racing. The first left I felt incredible and I was sitting comfortably in the top 10. We hit the hill really hard and already people were falling off the back. Towards the end of the second lap I hit a big pot hole and my wheel locked up between my brake calipers and was way out of true. I had to stop and get off my bike to try and fix it. I managed to fix it good enough to ride back the the start finish line. I bailed out of the race do to the problem and figured I better save my energy for Sundays race.
This race went awesome for me. It was at the Donaldson Center and I figured since it was free to enter I would do the Juniors race. In the first 2 miles of the race I attacked hard and was off the front. I thought to myself "sweet i'm off the front, but wait can I hold it"? Turns out I could. By the end of the first lap the field was no where in sight. By the middle of the second lap I figured all I had to do was hold my pace and no one would catch me. Third lap started and I knew I had the race won. I came across the finish line and out my hands in the air. It was the coolest thing that has ever happened. I had always want to win by a solo breakaway. I waited for 8 minutes before the field came across the finish line. So far the season is going good for me. My next race will be in April in Rock Hill.
The Win!
Me Hammering
Sat March 8th
Todays race was the River Falls Road Race. The course really suited me. It was a 6 mile loop with a one mile climb at the finish. I felt really good today and thought I would have good results. Well I was wrong. At the start of the race it was sleeting and really cold. I was wondering exactly what I was doing racing. The first left I felt incredible and I was sitting comfortably in the top 10. We hit the hill really hard and already people were falling off the back. Towards the end of the second lap I hit a big pot hole and my wheel locked up between my brake calipers and was way out of true. I had to stop and get off my bike to try and fix it. I managed to fix it good enough to ride back the the start finish line. I bailed out of the race do to the problem and figured I better save my energy for Sundays race.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Weekend Race Report
Saturday
I headed down to fork shoals with Frank and Erica to race in the cat 4 race. With high hopes of winning and being to upgrade to cat 3 the team said they would help me out if all things worked out well. Well lets just make this one short. Things didnt work out to well for me. At the start of the race the official said that the field was 189 strong. I thought "wow thats insane". By the second lap it seemed that half the field had fallen off. On the third lap there was a guy up the rode by one minute and the field started hammering to catch him. People started falling off the back left and right. I found myself struggling to hand on. My lower back was really hurting me. I eventually did fall off the back and tried so hard to catch back on. I caught plenty of people a long the way who had fallen off. None of them which could hang with the pace I had going. I was disappointed for getting dropped but looked forward to racing on Sunday.
Sunday
Sundays race was much much better than Saturdays race. I did the Junior race today because I was going to be going to a Puddle of Mudd Concert in Charlotte. More on that later. So at the start of the race Evan Wynn and I were at the front setting the pace at a nice tempo. We eventually let a team from Salisbury do some work. At the end of the second lap Josh Antley attacked and Evan got right on his wheel. I sat in the pack and waited to see if anyone was going to go after him. After I saw that no one was going to go after him I attacked on the outside to try and bridge up to Evan and Josh. at 30 mph and a super hard effort I managed to get up to them. next thing I know and was expecting anyway was AJ Meyer came up to the break. AJ is a super strong cat 2 Junior. Before I knew it the 4 of us crossed the start finish line with one lap to go and we had a good gap on the field. We worked together really well until AJ decided to attack about 2 miles into the 3rd lap. With his attack it made josh fall off the back and left Evan and I chasing after him. To make a long story short AJ won the race. I spent the entire third lap trying to catch Evan who was about 5-10 seconds up the road from me. Josh ended up catching up to me with 1 kilometer to go and road my wheel to the sprint and out sprinted me by less than a bike length. I ended up getting 4th on the day but was very happy to be part of a breakaway.
I headed down to fork shoals with Frank and Erica to race in the cat 4 race. With high hopes of winning and being to upgrade to cat 3 the team said they would help me out if all things worked out well. Well lets just make this one short. Things didnt work out to well for me. At the start of the race the official said that the field was 189 strong. I thought "wow thats insane". By the second lap it seemed that half the field had fallen off. On the third lap there was a guy up the rode by one minute and the field started hammering to catch him. People started falling off the back left and right. I found myself struggling to hand on. My lower back was really hurting me. I eventually did fall off the back and tried so hard to catch back on. I caught plenty of people a long the way who had fallen off. None of them which could hang with the pace I had going. I was disappointed for getting dropped but looked forward to racing on Sunday.
Sunday
Sundays race was much much better than Saturdays race. I did the Junior race today because I was going to be going to a Puddle of Mudd Concert in Charlotte. More on that later. So at the start of the race Evan Wynn and I were at the front setting the pace at a nice tempo. We eventually let a team from Salisbury do some work. At the end of the second lap Josh Antley attacked and Evan got right on his wheel. I sat in the pack and waited to see if anyone was going to go after him. After I saw that no one was going to go after him I attacked on the outside to try and bridge up to Evan and Josh. at 30 mph and a super hard effort I managed to get up to them. next thing I know and was expecting anyway was AJ Meyer came up to the break. AJ is a super strong cat 2 Junior. Before I knew it the 4 of us crossed the start finish line with one lap to go and we had a good gap on the field. We worked together really well until AJ decided to attack about 2 miles into the 3rd lap. With his attack it made josh fall off the back and left Evan and I chasing after him. To make a long story short AJ won the race. I spent the entire third lap trying to catch Evan who was about 5-10 seconds up the road from me. Josh ended up catching up to me with 1 kilometer to go and road my wheel to the sprint and out sprinted me by less than a bike length. I ended up getting 4th on the day but was very happy to be part of a breakaway.
Before the Start on Sunday
The Break
The Sprint for 3rd
AJ Meyer
The Break
The Sprint for 3rd
AJ Meyer
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