ok ok, so I'm playing catch up on my posts here... I'll do another one for Cascade. Anyways, the week before I was out racing as always. Lately I've been working on trying to sprint decently. I'm starting to get the power down, but am always working on positioning and have never quite figured that out. Figuring out positioning is especially tricky, but at PIR I've been getting points in hot spots despite seemingly always picking the wrong side to pass traffic for the final sprint.
Well, on Saturday I went up to Redmond, Washington with Eddie for Derby Days. Eddie always leaves with 3 hours to spare just in case oh, perhaps I-405 North and 520 are both closed like they were on that day.
Not much to report from the race except that Logan Owen is strong and Bedford is good at riding off the front for $400 primes. I got 17th barely behind Morgan Schmitt and walked away with the biggest prize of the year of $65! $65 for 17th place! That is cool. Eddie drove back and I slept through the boring part of Washington.
Next morning I promptly got up and caught a ride with Joe King to Montinore where the promoter there was gracious enough to offer up medals for the top 3 after nearly canceling the race which was an Oregon Cup race. Man forget $1,000 for first place, the Oregon promoters know how to put up the prize money... NOT!!!
Anyways, small rant aside it's actually cool because the Montinore course for whatever reason gets Oregon racers actually racing hard making for a fun hard race. I was trying to save energy as best I could each time up the hill, but I was then chasing back on most of the time. Ultimately that hill was too much for me and I couldn't hang on the final climb/sprint, so I was maybe the third floater across the line which was good enough for 8th and thus enough Oregon Cup points to put me back in 5th in the standings.
