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What Tim saw:
Category: 4/5
Result: Did not finish - crash!
The field was easily 100+. At start time, Casey almost split us into
two groups: 4s and 5s. However, there were only 20ish cat 5 racers,
so he let us race as one big group.
For the first 10 minutes I sat in the back of the pack, then went to
the front for a bit. I went with an attack but that fizzed out
quickly. I recuperated in the pack till lap 5. I started to work my
way up to the front, but on turn 2, two guys couldn't hold their line
and went down. Everyone following the outside line went down. I was
probably one of the last to go down (doing the slow-motion roll-over
fall). I think a total of 10 went down but nobody was hurt.
Unfortunately, when I picked up my bike it had a flat front tire, so
I had to walk back to the finish line. I arrived just in time to see
a spectacular crash on the last lap coming out the rolling turn 4.
Overall, my fitness is OK. I was off the bike for the last two weeks
of January for vacation, so I might have lost a bit of fitness.
P.S. - while taking my bike the bike shop in Los Gatos to get my
front wheel trued (it was bent in the crash), I saw the entire CSC
team riding up Kennedy road. They were going in the opposite
direction, so I didn't have time to look closely at faces, but I was
amazed to see 20+ CSC guys, with several follow cars.
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What Oscar saw:
Category: 5
Result: Top ten
So, Del and myself show up for the mentoring session and figured we'd
be doing the race at a comfortable pace 'cause, well we're lazy.
Anyway, the race is split to two groups after Casey sees that our
group has about 74-75 riders. Del and myself are put in the second
group. We start off at an amazily slow pace but, start to ramp it up a
bit after the second lap or so. Needless to say that I'm actually up
front with the pack on my wheel as I contest for the prime. I didn't
get it.
Long story short, I ended up 4th after I din't get out of my
saddle to sprint. I just hung on this guy from Los Gatos' wheel. Two
things I noticed is that I'm now completing my races and I might be
able to do something this season if this is any indication. Let's
really hope...Well see ya out there.
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