Race #7 - Colavita Time Trial

3rd place - I won a medal and some pasta. More to come when I wake up. Need coffee. Lynchburg tomorrow. The results are in and I finished 5th overall out of 22. I liked that course. A little rolling but nothing major. The chip/seal sucked and I stayed real close to the yellow line where there was standard asphalt pavement. Luckily, there was not much traffic.

Race #6 the other Hueston woods, or was it?

OVR ran the race clockwise, just like Tym the week before. Result? I get dropped in the exact same place. 2nd climb of the 2nd lap. I need to fix my leg asap.

The good news is that Allen won the cat 3 race for us!

Next up - Greenville TT (Saturday) and Lynchburg (Sunday).

Race #5 Heuston Woods

Another chilly day in this part of the world. Team Columbus put on this week's Heuston Woods race and OVR's version will be next week. This time around we did the course clockwise which I've never done before. I think that way is actually harder. The rollers aren't as steep, but they seem longer. It looked like about 30 or so riders started the 3/4 race. I felt really good up until one of the rollers on the 2nd lap (of 6) where I cramped, yet again. I'm not understanding this. I'm cramping in places where I've never cramped before, as well as all the usual places! Not wanting to DNF like last week, I kept going and eventually hooked up with Bret of Darkhorse and a MOB Squad rider and we short pulled our way around the loop a couple more times. The MOB rider stopped with one lap to go and Bret and myself finished the race pulling each other along. I'm glad he was there or else I probably would have ditched from the cramping.

Another day, another called off race. Today's St Leon race was cancelled due to "miscommunication" whatever that means. That makes three races so far this year that I've scheduled that has been cancelled (well, I self cancelled one time trial due to freezing rain!)

Next up, Heuston Woods....AGAIN!

Race #4 Reily

The weather was perfect and the fields were large for this early in the year. It was so nice that I actually got a bit of a sunburn on my face. I didn't expect that! The cat 3 race had 40 people with 5 of those being Project Velo riders. Several Anthem and Team Dayton riders were out there as well. The Reily course only had one little climb per loop. The fourth time up it I realized that I didn't take my Enduralytes as my whole lower body cramped up. I was able to make back to the field, but right after the first train tracks there was an accelleration and having just caught back up, I was toast. I finished the lap limping slowly back to the parking lot.

Next up - Acton Lake on Saturday and St Leon Sunday (ouch!)

There we go....

Snowed out! Apparently, it decided to snow ONLY on the race course and no where else in the county. Everything was ok at my house except the cold, but there was snow on road in Germantown. One road was closed due to high water, that was actually a mud pit. After driving through that section I was wishing I had my wife's cross bike. Yuck. Then I found out that the race has been cancelled. Ended up spending three hours on the trainer Sunday - yeehaa.

Let's hope the conditions are better this Sunday in Reily. It's supposed to be 50 and raining. Great.