My sleep was so-so going into the race, but whatevs. I didn't have a floor pump and was using my hand pump instead so I probably only put in 100 pounds. At the top my front wheel was quickly going flat. But the big thing was that when the triathlete made his move I didn't follow. But he didn't even make a move was the thing, it was kind of like Eugene where everyone else is looking at each other waiting for someone else to do something and before you know it someone is up the road. I guess nobody took him seriously, but damnit, he won.
That just really irks me about Oregon road racing is that it always seems like when you lose, you lose for a stupid reason and not because it was a hard bike race. At least in cyclocross you do get your ass handed to you by the likes of Shannon Skerritt and Carl Decker, but all the roadie pros have left or just don't enter many Oregon road races. Please Pros, come back and whoop on us so we are all taught what it's like to race a proper Pro/1/2 road race.
But hey, at least I won these in the raffle!
