Iowa City Road Race

Decided 2 days ago that I would do this race, I was only gonna do the Crit tomorrow. Showed up early and got registered, then went and watched the other races that were going on this morning. The wind was coming out of the west at between 25-35 mph, which was nice on the one section of the course, but meant that the 6 miles back were gonna be into it. We lined up and almost got going, but one of the Masters came back and said there was a rider down, and needed an ambulance so we waited for that to show up. The USCF official said we were gonna have a neutral start and roll behind her vehicle till we got past the crash, but we got to the hill and there were 2 ambulances and a sheriff blocking the road, so we turned back and waited for the road to clear, about 10 minutes. From what we were being told he got blown off the road by a cross wind and ended up flipping over the bars into the ditch, not sure what kind of injuries though. So once we finally got started we were on the tailwind section and cruising along at around a 30 mph average, then we hit the headwind and a few guys got off the front and got up to the masters in front of us, I wasn't ready for the attack and got stuck in the second group on the road. Me and another guy were working together pretty well and rode away from the rest of the group, so we came around for lap 2 and got back into the tailwind and tried to see if we could get back up to any other guys. Halfway through we picked up another rider and the 3 of us worked to pick up 2 more guys, so the way back into the headwind there were 5 of us working together. Coming up to the line was a short climb and the other guy I was origanaly with took off and I jumped onto his wheel and ended up in 13th Place. 26 miles 18.4 mph average, and other than the wind one hell of a good time on my bike.

Old Capital Road Race