finished racing in south carolina on thursday night and packed up the bike that night.

flew out to san diego early friday morning.

state crit championships on saturday.

optional road race on sunday.

no rest for the wicked.

 

barrio logan gp - state crit championships

was feeling ok, and was looking forward to a local race after the nrc madness.  had a decent start spot, but was very lacksadasical in the beginning.  the pace was fine, and was watching a bit, but was somewhat on auto-pilot.  i even saw kyle gritters moving up through the field, but didn't follow.  biggest mistake of the day.  within the first 20 minutes of the race, he was up the road with 5 or so others and they would eventually take a lap on the field.  well, that just plain sucked.  game over.

 

san luis rey road race

this is a hilly road race and socal guys just aren't always so much road racers.  it's mostly crits around here, so that's what you get used to.  anyway, this is a tough race, but not impossible.  i managed to take 3rd here as a cat 3, but didn't have so much luck last year as a cat 2.  this year was better - got 16th among the cat 2's.  good for about 26th overall or so in the pro/1/2.  over half the field just drops out of this race, so if you just perservere you can end up with a decent result...