Indianapolis

Well I wrote this blog about a week ago and just realised I never posted it. So here it is. I will write another one after Gateway Cup finishes on Monday. It's the third race this afternoon of four so hopefully it will be a good form finder.

After a partly successful weekend in Indianapolis classes start at uni today. I've been pretty fortunate with my timetable this semester with my ealiest class at 11am and the latest finishing at 4pm. Will give me plenty of time to train and do other things.



Back to Indy, when we eventually finished squashing 8 bikes and luggage into our american team mate, David's, people mover Chev, Owen (the newly crowned Missouri State Track Champion), David and myself were on our way to Indianapolis on Friday evening. After some last minute changes we organised to stay at one of David's teammates house. Thanks to Tim and his family for putting up with us. With an extremely humid 35 celcius (95 faren.) day behind us we hit the velodrome on Saturday night not really knowing what to expect. We were racing many guys from the Marian College cycling team who we would be competing against at the track nationals in a few weeks. To be honest it was a wake up call and I found myself in desperate need of more leg speed. Owen and chev did much better then me with Owen being in a 3 man break with 2 marian guys. Unfortunately they worked him over but Owen was hapy with his ride...his time would come tomorrow.



On Sunday we raced a criterium at the Indy fair grounds. With a small field of about 20 we were pretty confident that we could go home with the win as we had four people in the race. After some early attacks by everyone in the team and then some awesome work by David to bring back a break Owen tried his luck again and went solo with about 25min left in the race. Everyone else just looked around and no one chased. Owen continually extended his gap and comfortably held on for the win. Owen's break gave me and chev a very easy ride to end as we just sat in. Unfortunately we weren't able to take a place. Everyone came away satisfied with how they raced though. Till next time, cya.