Wow, what a week it's been. let me try to catch up here. I had a day off on Friday but played Bike Girl for Kenny. i hope he appreciated it. I did a lot of video taping for the team which was not that much fun, but hey, we all have to take one for the team, right? ha ha. So Saturday, I had the points race. Deb and I were both in it, and we were looking forward to having some fun. A couple of people scratched, one gal was kicked out because she was not the right category, and a few were added. There was only one entrant in the 30-34 group and she was going to ride with us, and she was a known fastie (Jan's term). Warren, the race promoter, told me the young chick was going to be told by the officials not to interfere with the outcome of our race, however, to make a long story short, she wasn't. I asked her about it as we rolled up to the rail, and she said that she was racing this one. We let her get off the front; she may have even lapped the field. We didn't really care because she wasn't supposed to be scored. Deb and I worked hard to get points, but this youngster gal decided to pull the other California rider around, and that gal ended up winning our race. Deb and I were second and third, respectively. Being the (ha ha - work people, are you reading this?!) diplomatic one, I talked with Warren after the race but he couldn't really do anything.
The next (last) day was the team events. Yet again, it was VERY HOT!!! As in 103 under the canopy on the infield, probably 110 on the track. Deb and I had the top seed for team sprint. We ended up with fourth but rode a much faster time than last year so we were at least happy with that. The two men's sprint teams also got 4th. That would be Kenny, Rich and Big Sock in the 50+ group, and Butch, Paulin and Pellitier in the 40+. For some unknown reason, they decided to run the team pursuits as one-ups rather than having two teams on the track. Oh my goodness, this took forever!! We finally got on the track at 3pm. We were seeded last which was great, so we knew what we had to ride. Last year, we got the top seed and were able to cruise to gold thanks to Rich letting us know exactly where we needed to be with lap times. This year we worked like crazy but ended up third. All I can say, is we'll be back!!
The bad news is that we rode sometime after 3pm and our flight was at 5pm. Not good timing. We missed the flight in San Jose but luckily got on the last flight out of San Francisco which put us home a couple hours late.
Good to be home. Tons of tomatoes and herbs to harvest (email me if you want some!) Now on to cyclocross season - woo hoo!
More pictures on the camera to come later.
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