Came out here for the nrc race tomorrow and race the 2/3 rectangle crit today. It was 98d at the start, very hot and sunny. I didn't warm up as much as I should considering the 4 hour drive but after a few laps I began making attacks. Nothing stuck with the course being so flat and the very wide corners didn't help either. With 8 to go I made some strong moves but wasn't going anywhere. I began feeling very bad, my body turned cold and my back was seizing, I moved all the to the back of the field(50+riders) and with 3 to go I moved back up to the front. Matt M. brought the 3 rider break back with before we got to 1 to go and we were both in the top 10 for the last lap. After the final corner there is a 900meter sprint. I blew up with 200 meters to go and sat up. Matt M got 14th, after all the work in the front and then battling at the end he did good, plus it paid.
Overall the race was very slow until the last 500 meters, definitely time to start working on the sprinting intervals.
The Pro/1/2 was fun to watch, at the start it began downpouring and the rain only let up a little. Two Jelly belly dudes were off the front with an orbea dude the whole time, they were caught with 4 to go and the last four laps was all jelly belly. Brad H. won while the orbea dude who was in the break all day got 2nd. Joe S. from mercy got 5th or 6th after laying down some hard attacks.
The rain caused a lot of flats, probably more than 20 wheel changes in the p/1/2 race, there were a ton of wrecks too, I did not see 1 wreck in the 2/3 but with the rain/debrees, the pro/1/2 had more to negotiate.
The Hellkat hustle race was postponed today due to the bad weather in kc, it is on for this saturday.
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