Last Saturday I took off for Baraboo for my first road race of the season, and my first race since upgrading to a Cat 3. I've done this race the previous two years, so I knew what to expect with the course. It was a cloudy, cold day with a bit of rain that thankfully stopped before my race took off at 1pm. The weather must have kept the racers away, because there was probably only 20-25 racers starting. The course is 15mi long, with two decent climbs...one at the beginning of the lap and the other at the end. The first lap was pretty tame, but I think we still lost a couple riders in the climbs. The second lap was much of the same, but with a couple riders attacking to spice things up a bit. No one got away though, and we once again lost a few riders when the road turned upward. We started the third and final lap with probably around 13 riders in the leading group and when we hit the climb at the beginning of the lap I just didn't have the legs to keep with the leaders. Six riders got clear, with me in a chase group with another 6 riders only about 30 sec behind. We got a nice paceline going and kept the leaders in our sight for the entire lap, but they maintained that small gap all the way to the finish. I ended up rolling across the line for 11th place. Not bad for my first Cat 3 race, but it would have been nice to hang with the front on the climb since it looked like they went the same pace the rest of the lap as the group I was in.
I checked the results on the WCA webpage for this race, and they don't even have me (or any of the other riders in my group) listed. When they posted the results after the race, we all had question marks by our names, like they didn't know what order we finished in or something. I guess rather than figure it out they just instead dropped us from the results completely. Weird.
I was thinking of heading to the WORS mtb race on Sunday, but decided that I didn't feel like driving over 2hr each way to race, so instead I stayed home and painted bathrooms. Both the main level bathroom and the bathroom upstairs were painted in a hideous poop brown color by the previous owner. The main level bathroom also had wallpaper on one wall and not one, but two, layers of border thrown in for good measure. After much work and many evenings spent painting, they are both now complete and look MUCH better. I decided to go with white in both, since none of the other rooms in our house have white paint, and it looks nice and clean in a bathroom. Evidently Heather will be posting pics of the finished rooms in the near future.
How many coats of white paint does it take to cover poop brown walls? Four or five.
This weekend we are getting some visitors from Minneapolis, as Brandon and Gillian are coming down to pay us a visit in Mad-town. Should be fun!
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Good race recap...
I'll let the 'legs weren't feelin' it' slide for this race, but next time ignore the legs. It's a mind game, and I know you're smart. :)
Sounds like you're kicking my butt on the bathroom progress front. You'd think that the brown paint would be inspiring in that room?
http://www.rribt.com/
I ran across this and wondered if any of you long distance point to point riders had done this?
Way to represent Brian! Nice picture on the TBB site of you on a brutal looking climb.
The rrbit ride looks like a fun tour. I'd like to do it someday. Tonia and Heather would probably do RRIBT before Trent and Brian would ever dare try the Red Ass 300 :)
Tonia, your bathroom project is a bit more intense though, so you get a pass. Ripping the room down to the studs and starting over takes a little longer than just repainting and touching up the walls. :)
Thanks Vino!
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