Fayetteville Stage Race

After arriving in San Antonio 9:30 on Friday night, Colt picked me up from the airport and we drove to his place south of San Marcos.  I put the bike together and got to sleep for the 6:30am wake up next morning.

SATURDAY
65 Mile Road Race, Sunny and Warm
After packing up the car, we hit the road for Fayetteville to realize we had the time wrong and the race actually was starting at 10am, not 10:30.  We got to the race with 30mins to sign in, suit up and we rolled to the start line with 3 min to spare.  It's what I like to call an adrenaline warm up.  Race went well, just sat in the group, followed some wheels, and tried to stay hydrated.  Everything was well until about 3 miles to go I got some bad cramping in the legs and got dropped like a bad habit.  When my leg muscles unseized I was fine and tempoed in with a few others in the grupetto, losing a few mintues.


6.6 Mile Time Trial, Rolling Course
I did this one Mercx style.  I felt like I had a real good ride, keeping the power high without overexerting.  Legs felt a lot better than they did this morning, and I was happy with my performance.  Just another example of the power of aerodymanics is the fact that Colt and I had the exact same Avg Power/Kilogram and his time was 1:20 faster than mine.  That's a lot of drag.

SUNDAY
95 Mile Road Race, Foggy
Today went a whole lot better than yesterday.  Legs felt great and I just concentrated on drinking and eating a lot.  Again I just followed wheels, and didn't make any hard efforts off the front.  I had to keep myself in check and think that I have a whole week of training in front of me, and my legs are gonna be sore as it is.  As with most races I do, there was a short period of time during the race where I just wanted to give up and roll off the course.  But I soon felt better, and was even able to mix it up in the sprint a bit.

Overall great weekend, and feels good to finally kick off the season.  Looking forward to a good week of training.  The picture at the top is the sweet hotel we stayed at in the town of Fayetteville.  The town was essentially one small square lined with old buildings, a very cool place.