MN State Crit and Inflattable fun

Today was the MN State Crit championships in St. Cloud and we had beautiful weather for it.  The entire family made the trip as they had inflatable slides and all that stuff.  I think my oldest daughter (4yrs old) had the best day out of the whole family as not only did she get to jump in the inflatable thnigs she was able to do a ponny ride.

Oh ya bike racing.

The race was a combined field of Cat 3's and 4's.  My race ended at the start line.  I was in the 2nd row behind some teammates, which I thought would have been fine, but some guy from another team couldn't get clipped in a cut about 6 or so guys off.  Thus I was at the back of the 45 rider train faster than you could blink.  The train was rolling!! I kept fighting to get up in the pack but gaps started to form very quickly.  Before I knew it the gaps were too big and I was basically riding solo.  I kept going if nothing else to get a good workout in and ended up 21st overall and 11th out of the Cat 4's.

Lesson learned again get my but to the front of the pack.

Next weekend we are heading to Omaha, so I am going to try and get some hard miles in before we go and not take the bike with me.

Jeff