OBC Race

Last night at OBC training ride that met in Cedarburg at 6pm. The route is called Rockfield and is 32.5 miles. Weather was perfect mid to lower 70's with some decent wind. This ride is more like a road race every week, a suvival of the fittest. I made sure to play the x factor a lot trying to hide out of the wind when possible. I felt pretty strong considering that I did hill repeats up Jefferson on Tuesday and this week I did it a total of 8 times. 4 small ring climbs, and 4 big ring climbs. I made sure to also climb the hills toward the front of the group. I feel that many of the OBC riders are getting stronger and faster. The lead group is around 10-15 riders instead of the 5 or so in the past.

We were missing some regulars, my guess is that they are starting cycecross pratice. I felt last nights group was a bit small, but was still very fast and hard. Still had some big legs out there killing the pace.

Like always, I like to try to win the sprint finish at the end of the ride/race. I was toward the front about 6 or so back. I was behind Brian P. and I could feel other people getting antsy and I was also boxed in. I yelled at him to GO and he was not in a good position either. Others in front of him were slowing down and he had no where to go. At this point Jeff M. was moving up the left side, so I snuck out and got behind him and waiting for my launching point...............I launched and launched hard passing everyone in front of me and pushing the pedals hard and increasing my speed little by little until the stop ahead sign. Wow, was that a hard effort and timed that out perfect. Felt really REALLY strong for that sprint. Nobody came around and when I looked back nobody was even on my wheel. But, half way through the sprint I thought someone was on my wheel, either nobody was on my wheel or they gave up.

Tonight is Pedal Moraine and this ride can be a fast one depending on group consensus on how hard we want to ride.

Have had some hard rides and now planning some longer easier stuff.