Weather Update, and the racing!

Well today was a shocker from what I’ve been used to the last few weeks. I woke up this morning at 5am for the super early start to the US Open Cycling Championships and it was snowing and about 25 degrees. Since the past weekends racing in Indio and Ojai was up in the 90’s I knew my body was going to witness a huge shock to the system. And it did.

After waking up at 5am to snow I went to eat breakfast down one floor in the managers room. Then it was time to suit up and get on the bus and drive an hour to Williamsburg from Richmond. Then when we get to Richmond we get the news that the race has been delayed in hopes that the snow will stop by the start, but it didn’t and the organizers delayed the start another 20 minutes, but it was still snowing. So we started in the snow, went the wrong way in the neutral zone, then everyone froze when they stopped us for the official start where they fired off a musket.

At the begining of the race I felt as okay as I could have felt for the freezing temps and snow. So I attacked some into the massive head wind and didn’t really do anything for getting away. I did some fallowing of attacks as well but not that much cause buy the time the race was 20 minutes in I had a stomach ache and stomach cramps when I went hard to attach, follow, or suffer in the cross wind sections. So my day sucked and I was dropped when we entered the circuits and did one lap behind the caravan then pulled out.

But it was really cool having people screaming for me even though I was at or off the back going up the cobbled climb of Libby Hill.

It is a really good race course, but the weather sucked so I hope I’m back next year.

Cody