1st Race Weekend, Bad Habits, Fat Tires.
Monroe, Louisiana. That was the site of last weekends opening race for my season. I got a late start, not leaving until 8:00pm or so on Saturday evening. On the way down Ryan Johnson and I needed a solid pre-race meal for dinner so we saw the bell. Once we got to Taco Bell we knew we had to get inside and see what the 30+ high schoolers were up to. I reckon that is the new hang out. The best part was when six douche bags with this haircut walked in and tried to run the place. They quickly retreated.
Ryan and I rolled into Super 8 around midnight and hit the sack with Wade and Wes who had arrived an hour earlier. The next day was a 20k TT, followed by a 40 minute crit in the afternoon. I had a solid warm-up for...umm.... the first time ever and ran what I considered a good first race of the year. My new TT bike has 8 miles on it but we felt like a match made in heaven. I did a 27:41 which was 5 seconds behind Wade and good enough to be the 1st looser. Yep, 2nd place.
After taking a nap at Starbucks it was off to the next event, the 40 minute crit. Twenty minutes in Wade attacked (for the 2nd time) and this time got away. His brother Wes and I just sat back and chased down all of the attempts to catch him. At 25 minutes in the ran began and it was reminiscent of figure skating without the grace. Wes crash immediately after saying "I run 90 psi so I can nail the corners". I kept it upright and continued blocking for Wade while he eventually rode to victory. I won the field sprint for 2nd overall. My second 1st looser of the weekend. Both Wade and Wes acted as guest riders for the weekend we got the 1,2 punch in both races.
In other stuff- I have two
Finally, the boys from Moots Cycles showed up at Competitive Cyclist today on their road trip to the North American Handmade Bike Show. Check out their snow bike, it will surely be the talk of the show. Check it out-
