Friday we drove out with Jeremy, Cristian and we brought along Zak Kovalcik too. Bart from Seattle joined me in the P/1/2s. Unfortunately the organizers and flaggers miscommunicated such that they had to cancel the stage. I was very much looking forward to hanging on for dear life, but we only did a lap instead. Oh well.
I had a very nice rest at the vacation rental we booked. And I had a good warmup and TT. I broke 20 minutes for the first time.
In the crit I did not do the best. I spent most of the race tailgunning which I realized is especially hard to do at Walla Walla since you're playing catch-up way more than if you just stayed towards the front. I guess any crit really. I got pulled with about 5 laps to go.
For dinner we all went out and I actually drank a beer. I would've abstained, but after seeing how Zak spent the previous evening going to a frat party and still getting top 10 in the crit, I decided maybe 1 beer was ok.
Sunday was the road race and my goal was to survive since I got dropped last year. I only really ever had trouble on the Kellogg Hollow Rd climb where eventually the last lap the contenders all got away. I made it in with the peleton and was satisfied with that result. Still got some fitness to build up, but I'm getting there.
Here is the selection at the finish:
And the rest:
Jeremy from our Cat 3 squad managed to get in a 4 person break that put enough time to earn him 2nd GC. Had he gotten 3rd in the sprint he would've won it. So close! 'til next time.
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