Memorial Day was the first annual Lakeshore Tech College Crit. Hopefully it won't be its last. It was a really nice challenging course and really wasn't a Crit. I think it was more of a short Circuit Race. The race took place on the College's loop road which was closed to cars. There wasn't much flat ground on this race, the back stretch was flat but had a chicane through a gate on it. So this wasn't a typical race course. I was thinking about doing two races today, but didn't feel like waking up early to hit the road. I could have jumped in another race 10 minutes after my first, but said no way after finishing. When I showed up they were hauling someone away in an ambulance, always a great way to start the racing day off. There were some very fast corners on this course luckily everyone in my race were good bike handlers. The Masters race I was in started off pretty chill with a little half lap warmup. Then things started getting serious. I think the BRFs started it off first with some breakaways. People kept trying throughout the race but, I kinda decided that no breakaways were going to stick. The course was hilly enough but, there was a strong head wind on the back straight which hurt anybodys chances of getting off the front. There were only nine of us left with three laps to go and one guy soloed off the front ending up with the win. I didn't think he was going to stay away because we were slowly reeling him back but he made it. I had decided on the last lap to be the first through the chicane. Which I managed to do and I kept riding hard through the next two turns but was caught right after that. I actually got a stitch in m side so I must have been going about as hard as I could. I pretty much coasted in after that. Finished eighth, at least I tried I guess. It turns out the guy who won was a cat 1 so I don't feel so bad. Good to see some of the BRFs and Andy Tegge was back tearing it up. Hopefully I will do a few more road races this summer. I definitely have the Troutman circled, though with it being a Wisport race the dynamic will completely different. I looked for race results but couldn't find them. -Later
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