This was a lighter week, about 7 hours, as Tour de Terra Cotta was on the holiday Monday.
Tour de Terra Cotta
You can see Phil (another rider from Brauns.com) and myself on the far right of the shot here.
This race had the best start ever, as we were doing our neutral roll-out, I hear from behind and to the left "Riding on this side of the road makes me feel so Pro."
The course was about a 9k loop, we did 6 loops. The only difficult portion of the course was a steep hill, probably only a minute long. I managed to stay within my limits on it, the last climb I really had to work to catch the field again, but it was very much like my first race this year, work hard up the hill, recover on the rest of the course.
The course was great, in that it was closed, so you could use up the whole road. That was a good thing, the roads were pretty narrow and that field would have really gotten clogged up. I was on my brakes a lot as it was. The weather was fantastic.
There was a crash in the bunch sprint at the end, and I got caught in it, so I finished about a minute back of the field. It was sort of anti-climatic, actually (just a small cut and sore calf from the crash).
I feel disappointed, like I had the fitness to do more, but couldn't get anything to come together during the race. I seem to be able to keep up to the main field without putting myself into the red too often, most of my focus is on watching out for people doing dumb things like braking hard or swerving.
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