pace bend

funnest race in a long time. I'm going to cu this report short. after leaving the hotel I got to the park and waited around for awhile for my race to start
Once my race stared I was in the middle of what had to be the safest cat 3 field I've ever been in after around 8 to nine laps of racing I was still in the pack and was preparing for the sprint (at this point there is about 2 miles left and no break aways) I moved up to about 7th wheel after sitting mid pack the entire race and was getting ready to go up the finishing hill as fast as possible. as the pack took the left hander before the line I hear a major crash from behind and a start my dash with about 200 meters to go. I start to pass fellow Jr Cody foster up the hill as I flew to the line. with about 50 meters to go I see one guy fly by me on the left I I see that he has it in the bag. I keep going hard to hold 2nd but then I see Cody started to pass me on the left along with one other guy to my right. I cross the line in4 which was above my expectations. also in the womens race Jen won the fpr P ;and in the womans 4s

recap

I did everything by the book and probably wouldn't change much the only way I would have one was to probably start 1 or 2 more slots back but thats it.

walburg and first race of 09

after I long and crazy off season alot has happened since my last post. the most important one has got to be I had to go through another type of eye surgery which ruined the first week of my winter vacation and caused me to loose alot of fitness that I have been working on in secret since the end of states. Any way, walburg was my first race of the season and i was racing the cat 3s which happened to be a 72 mile race which was the same distance as the pros.
That Friday mourning I got up and started to get ready for my teammate paul to pick me up. Once he picked me up we started to head North to the Austin area and our hotel. after a while we arrive at the hotel to find my racing buddy Patric staying right below us.
once I got my # pinned and rolled out I was at the start line and ready to go. once we started to go I was at the front like my coach told me to and was waiting for the crosswind section. then I see scott simmons attack and went off the front solo. This didn't alarm me cause I knew he wasn't going to solo 70 miles of 30mph winds. as the lap went on we finally made the right hander into walburgs famous 30 mph crosswind I immediately got cover in the front and got teammate rich up to the front as well, then Me and rich along with some San jose riders started a rotating pacer line the wind and started to shred the pack. after one lap the pack went from 70 to 11 and still with 50 miles to go. I was one of those 11 but pretty much used up all my energy to to help shred to group in the cross wind. we then caught Scott and the pace went up again. 2 guys then attacked scott and he bridged up. this left about 7 chasing down 3 guys off the front. after about 20 mins at this pace I got dropped right before the strong cross again. I then pulled out after 50 miles of racing


Recap
I've come to learn I do to much work in windy races i have to learn to rest more in the pack and expend energy when necessary.

it is now 11-6

I'm almost a month in the off season And will try to update my blog as frequently as possible.

I will update those 2 track races eventually

10-11 Track racing Endurance night

Long racing mean easy money. Or so I thought.

The promoters cancelled the Jrs and and the masters and combined them with the 123s. which to me is awesome. any ways the first race was a 30 lap scratch. after a couple laps me Lawson and Alex got off the front and started working. I was soon dropped from the break and finished from the pack.

The next race was the 60 lap points race. I went off the front with on other person and I got the first two sprints and then was caught by Lawson and Alex so the four of us worked of a bit before Alex and Lawson dropped me. I was then caught by the field and was with them for the next couple laps before we were lapped by the leaders After the race finished I figured out that I actually got 3rd place in that race.so I'm still exited from that

The final race was a 75 lap scratch. I sat in and got dropped and lapped by Alex and Lawson. Anyways I attacked with 22 laps to go to try to get a lap back. at one point I brought back 3/4s a lap but I was soon caught with 6 laps to go. I then sprinted for 6th

Recap- all I can say is I love the track and every body should atleast try it once

10-10 track racing

Today was the first time I raced the track since July and couldn't wait. Track is one of the funnest things about bike racing. When I went to the track I saw that all my track friends where there and that there was a small group of racers. As the races stared I did 10 lap scratch race that I got slapped in against Lawson and Danial Walker. Then I did a 3 lap handicap that I totally just got shredded. I then had a very good 12 lap points race with sprints every 3 laps. I took 1 lap flyers in the 1st and last sprint points and got those. the next race was a miss n out where the last person from every lap is pulled. I got pulled first in an attempt to help a teammate ;). I then did an 18 lap tempo in the JRs that I had to pull my self out of due to my wheel coming loose and becoming a safety hazard Then in the final race of the day me and Dan did the 50 lapper. Our goal was to attack Lawson till we dropped him. unfortunately Lawson dropped both of us in the last 10 laps and won.

Recap

I'm starting to find the weaknesses of a few of the riders at the track and I'm going to win next time

New sponsorship

I'd like to thank the All smiles dentistry for helping me with my bike-racing and helping me achieve my goals in becoming pro one day. Thank you very much

Chapple hill states road race

Ok I can finally blog.

After waking up at around 4 am me and my teammate Rich drive out to Chapple Hill for the Road Race state Championships. On the drive up I was Mostly in my own world going back and forth between my consciouses and sub-conscious. Once me and Rich got to the race we registered and got our numbers and got our selfs pinned up. We then met up with Dan and started warming up. Our plan was a simple one, don't do anything till the last hour of the race.

Well the race started and me and my Team started at the front of the race. The race stared slow and Dan rolled off the front with a few other people from the group. Now me and Rich had to start blocking. After the first couple laps we were cruising at a fair pace around the course. Nothing too fast or too slow and I sat near the front and received Bottles from my Teammate Stephanie who was working the feed zone for the team. After 64 miles of blocking the break was finally caught and the entire group was back together with around 10 miles till the finish. around now I was pretty tired from all the blocking I was doing and could tell the energy was draining from my legs for the last couple miles no-one did anything and when the sprint finally came down I was going backwards. I pushed my self as hard as I could in the sprint and I managed to hold onto an 18 place finish.

Recap

Never block. Just kidding. well I don't regret anything i enjoyed the entire race and enjoyed all 3.5 hours of it. I just wasn't properly prepared for a 76 miler after Ike. Well Race season is finally over