Saturday was a road race held in the Palmyra area. It was put on by LAPT. The weather was horrible, cold, rainy and super windy. The course is nice, well at least to my liking. No big climbs! I had to race for 45 miles. If I remember correctly a break formed on the 2nd lap with just one guy going up the road and then 4 others eventually joining them. We never caught them. The cross winds hurt me the most. On the last lap I wasn't able to mentally push through the pain to stay with them. I finished the last 1/4 lap solo. I did one person behind me and I kept pushing to make sure that he didn't catch me. I finished 10th. I am pretty happy with that considering the conditions. I opted to leave the camera in the car, sorry, no race footage.
Sunday was a criterium held in the Sussex industrial park. It was put on by Café Hollender. The weather was still cooler than our normal temperatures and still a bit windy. But, it was SUNNY! This course has a hill on it, not my ideal course. The race had some attacks of some trying to get a break going, but it never happened. On the sprint I didn't have the legs to be really successful. I finished 9th. Here is a link to the first lap and the last 2 laps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLf0Si-5dpE
I had a good week of training. I came into the weekend a little over trained. I am going to get some active recovery this week. Monday and Tuesday will be easy days, Wednesday will be OBC, I will be just sitting in and working on stacking 0's. Thursday will be the group ride, but mellow. Friday will be off and Saturday I plan on doing the Trek 100 and doing 100 miles and then Sunday doing the Diablo Criterium.
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