So with the drought of racing comes a plether of action. In the last week I've raced a couple times.
1) Fireworks and Criteriums have been this pirates booty for the last three July 4th holidays. Conquered by the last two, one crashing out, the other pulling a pedal, this one turned out for the better. With 20 min. left of the 40min race Ole Scraggs wasnt feeling to good, so I dropped to the back only to find out that the back wasnt to far from the front, at this point we had ripped the field from 46 to about 12. Realizing this I sucked it up and moved back to my regular 3,4, and 5 place riding. When the final bell rang we conquered the last hill, a few more turns and the sprint, leading out was a rider from silver cycling, and the race was on, the pressure was put on by a fellow Rochester rider, not being able to match the power of him I worked my way to a second place, finishing with third place a bike length behind.
2) Now onto July 7th, SPH'ers Scraggs and Blackbeard head out to Spooner, WI. Here stands not only horses and rodeos but our destination, a 12 hour solo race! It started of strong for Scraggs. With 7 laps in the first 6 hours, I held a lap and half lead. At this point fatigue and exhaustion was setting in. I turned to resting after everylap. With the field slowing down I settled into my lawnchair after my 10th lap. With only Blackbeard on my trail and having to do 3 laps to beat me I figured victory was mine. But with his legs matching his beard only Blackbeard would have attepted a third lap in a row to win the race. Thrown off gaurd, I was quick to throw my equiptment together and hop back on and catch Mr. Black. With about a five min gap I started on what would be my fasted lap. With about a quarter of a lap to go it was doom day for blackbeard, I had reached him, now it was time to figure out how we would end this epic race. Would it be letting someone win, a sprint, or just crossing the line hand in hand. The decision was to sprint it out SPH style. with about 200 yard to go the race was on, in the end it was Ole Scraggs with a 2-3 second victory. That ends the recap. YARRRRRGH!
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Ahoy... I thought that I had you in Spooner. I should have waited until you sat down after the sprint and left for another slow lap. Or just have pushed hard that last lap instead of being resigned that you would catch me. Oh well. That was fun. I doubt that I should do the 12 hour race at Mankato, but something tells me that I might have to give it a shot.
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