Night at the Oval 6-3-08

Going into this week I knew I wouldn't do as good as previous weeks for a few reasons. One being I was on my Sulry cross bike since I haven't gotten my replacement road bike after mine fell off the rack last weekend coming home from Melon City, and I was oncall for work this past week, so no riding for me, except an hour on the rollers which wasn't enough. First race was a 10 lap scratch race which I did try and throw in an attack after about 4 laps which was enough to get 6 of us off the front of the group, but hurt so much I couldn't get on to the next attack that came just a few laps later, coming into the last lap I just kinda sat up and rolled across the line in 6th place. Next was a 9 lap points race, basically every 3 laps is for points, so you go for a few easy and them sprint, legs were finally feeling better so I was able to be out on the front for all the sprints and came in 2nd overall in that one. Next was a win and out 4 lap race, basically who ever wins the lap is out, so one guy went on the 1st lap, and I tried to go with him, but lost him just past the half way mark around the lap, so I just sat up and waited for the next group on the track and tried to hang with them but just fell off the back and settled for 4th place winning the last lap. Next the seperated us into age group and had a young vs. old race where you do 4 laps and your time is based on the last lap from the time the first person crosses the line starting the lap and ending when the first person again crosses the line at the end. We worked out a plan where we would go for it coming out of the last corner to get up to speed and work in a paceline and have 4 of us pulling the last lap for 1/4 of the lap and then breaking off, worked out perfectly we did the 1/2 mile lap in 55 seconds, then we watched the old guys have a go at it, and they were very unorganized, and we ended up winning by over 3 seconds. Then onto everyone favorite, the granny gear race, which was not in my favor tonight since I was running a 32-25, needless to say I was in the back of the pack, just couldn't spin any faster. And for the final race we did a big gear race, got started pretty good, but for some reason my wheel slipped out of my chainstay, so I had to stop and put my wheel back in right, so I rode the lap by myself, need to find out how that happened so it doesn't again. Overall a good night, got 3rd in the Cat 5's, can't wait till next time when I have my new bike, should be better.

NatO