Over the last month we had a few races here in the states. I figured I needed to get some racing in my legs before Europe, and what better way to do that than hit up some of the biggest races of the year.
As it turns out these races were either crash fests, sprinters dreams, or sometimes both. The last weekend was by far the best in terms of training.
A very fast course on Saturday kept everything together, for the most part. I know I tried to get away a few times. It came down to the last breakaway that stuck with half a lap left and a group sprint. Sadly our team would take a casualty of this 32mph dash for the last corner, he went down hard and broke a collarbone. All our wishes got to him to heal quickly.
Sunday was another day with me putting myself in the break that stuck. I went about halfway into the race and once it left I knew that was it. I had a teammate up there so I wasn't about to chase, but if someone was willing to give me a free ride.....that would be okay. Eventually someone did, and they killed themselves to close only half the distance, so I launched off him and closed it. Once up there we worked like dogs to establish a break. Once we did they attacks started coming. I covered as many as I could, but my fitness is not there yet and they broke me with a lap and a half remaining. In my defense there were 2 other guys to get popped at the same time, and we tried to catch back on, but the small group wasn't letting up and we had nothing left. So, we waited for the peloton to catch us. I was looking for our sprinter in the field after I was swallowed up but he wasn't in any shape to go for the sprint, plus all the money spots were gone from the break.
All in all the weekend was a great chance to test my breakaway strength. I feeling confident that soon I will be in that winning move and at that time I can seal the deal, I just need another month of hard training.
I leave next week for Utah with my dad. I'll be flying out of SLC to Europe on the 26th. I'll keep everyone posted.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
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