Friday, April 06, 2007
Mid week update
Went down to the big city tuesday, and jumped in a circuit race around the local indy car type track it had some hair pins s curves and a super long straight away to the finish. I didn't really know what was going on when they rang the bell with 12 laps to go of a 15 lap race. I found out they run it like a points race with sprints every 3 laps of the 1.8 mile circuit. I went on the attack trying to time it to win some sprints I won 1 and got caught right before one. The final sprint gave the most points 10, 9,8,7,6 and so forth giving points to 10 places. After a early jump by Evan Elkhan of Jittery joes with 500 meters to go 2 riders got on him, I was boxxed and ended up 4th almost beating Evan at the line, he went way to early into the wind, but it worked out for the guys on his wheel. They was a good 82 rider field and It is a weekly thing here so I'm hoping now that I know what is going on I can win next time.
Wensday I went out and did the noon ride at nike I got 2nd in the kom I was holding a good 360 watts all the way up the climb and tested the waters a few times hitting the high 400s but backed it down right away. Chad "the bmc pro" sat my wheel and attacked me right before the top, he gave me a smile and said see ya as he few by. To bad all the fast guys took the day off.
Thursday I went to the nike ride by myself Chad headed to richmond for a big pro race with his team. It was interisting I like the ride because they mix it up alot. Today we did a 4 on 4 team race. One of the finishes was at the top of a 4 mile climb. I took 2nd I didn't know where the finish was so I followed Steve Wrights wheel he sprinted and I hung on for dear life I couldn't have gone around him so it didn't matter anyway. It was the first time I was able to hold Steve's wheel all the way to the top of a climb so I was happy with just that. The next race was across the top of Skyline a pretty famous road out here. It ended up being a 4 up sprint. Steve attacked and I sat on him when the 3 of us caught back up to him he was forced to lead, but wasn't going all that hard. I spotted the finish line, and Steve wound it up. I gave it 110% and slowly inched up around his rear wheel and we went neck and neck across the line. I nicked him with a bike throw. I really enjoy riding with these guys. They're all mostly ex pros who have raced in europe, so I have also been learning alot just by talking to them.
Today was a 3 hour coffee ride, nothing super hard I kept the heart rate down and just spun after a hard 3 day block the legs were a little sore.
Tommarow I'll do some openers to loosen the legs up. Then Sunday we are doing a race in seattle with a 2000 dollar prize list. Hopefully with 7 strong guys we can take most of it. My orbea orica comes in monday.
So look for a race update and some bike porn
dueces
Wensday I went out and did the noon ride at nike I got 2nd in the kom I was holding a good 360 watts all the way up the climb and tested the waters a few times hitting the high 400s but backed it down right away. Chad "the bmc pro" sat my wheel and attacked me right before the top, he gave me a smile and said see ya as he few by. To bad all the fast guys took the day off.
Thursday I went to the nike ride by myself Chad headed to richmond for a big pro race with his team. It was interisting I like the ride because they mix it up alot. Today we did a 4 on 4 team race. One of the finishes was at the top of a 4 mile climb. I took 2nd I didn't know where the finish was so I followed Steve Wrights wheel he sprinted and I hung on for dear life I couldn't have gone around him so it didn't matter anyway. It was the first time I was able to hold Steve's wheel all the way to the top of a climb so I was happy with just that. The next race was across the top of Skyline a pretty famous road out here. It ended up being a 4 up sprint. Steve attacked and I sat on him when the 3 of us caught back up to him he was forced to lead, but wasn't going all that hard. I spotted the finish line, and Steve wound it up. I gave it 110% and slowly inched up around his rear wheel and we went neck and neck across the line. I nicked him with a bike throw. I really enjoy riding with these guys. They're all mostly ex pros who have raced in europe, so I have also been learning alot just by talking to them.
Today was a 3 hour coffee ride, nothing super hard I kept the heart rate down and just spun after a hard 3 day block the legs were a little sore.
Tommarow I'll do some openers to loosen the legs up. Then Sunday we are doing a race in seattle with a 2000 dollar prize list. Hopefully with 7 strong guys we can take most of it. My orbea orica comes in monday.
So look for a race update and some bike porn
dueces
# posted by Matt Brandt @ 3:46 PM 
