Living the dream: Racing my bike

A Racers Dream

So it’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything and a lot has happened. In the past 4 weeks I have done 5 races and I’m starting to feel like I’ve got the hang of the racer lifestyle. It involves sleepless nights in the back of your car, changing in public bathrooms, eating lots of fast food, and getting gas. My most recent racing was in Bear Lake Utah. We had a short 3.5-mile hill climb on Friday night (which I took 2^nd in) and then a road race on Saturday morning around the perimeter of Bear Lake. The road race was really interesting there were over 60 racers in my category. The first half of the race was very slow and uneventful. However, once we hit the East side of the lake where the rollers began so did the attacks. At the base of the first hill 2 buddies and myself attempted to get away from the peloton but we were unsuccessful. One thing that I’ve noticed about cat 4 is that the peloton will chase down every little move making a breakaway almost impossible. After I recovered I noticed a small kid working his way to the front I thought to myself this kid is going to go and I’m going to stick his wheel and help him out. Sure enough I was right and found myself pedaling as fast as I could to make this break stick. We stayed away for nearly 7 miles just the 2 of us. But it 50+ angry racers destroyed our dreams of a breakaway victory. Once we were caught it came down to a massive sprint to the finish I picked the most perfect guy to lead me out. I started the sprint in about 22^nd position and ended up in 6^th. Overall it was a brutal weekend of near vomiting experiences cheap food and good times. Plus I now have all the points I need to get my upgrade its just a matter of me getting the confidence to do so.

Here are a few random pictures and my garmin reports from the road race that Allison and myself took over the last few weekends.