baraboo road race

Well today was the baraboo road race it was a 13 mile course with two big climbs and mostly rolling course. Jrs race wasnt to exciting with 5 of the 6 iscorp Jrs team in the brakeaway so after I missed it I shut it down and just rode and was hoping someone would come along and I could stop and get a ride back to the start line and save my legs for the cat 3s race but nobody came along so I just rode alongand ended up having to sprint for 6th lol funnnnn..The Cat 3s race was a bit diffrent with 4 laps of the same course. On the first lap everyone was all together and going up the first big climb on the second lap was where I thought id get to the front just incase something went and sure enough about 16 guys got away on the climb nobody really attacked but it just split and I was on the tail end of the brake and when we got to the top of the climb I looked back and we had a good gap and lots of good riders where left out as the leaders rode off and for the next two and a half laps the group kept getting smaller and smaller til it was down to 12 guys and I was just barly hanging on and going up the last climb its happend i was droped from the lead group as nine others went up the hill without me , at teh top the lead group split and five riders where now about 1/4 of a mile a head goin into the last two miles of the course was all down hill so I gave it all I had left in the tank and got back on to the back of the second group and tryed to close the gap to the leaders but didnt make it so now I was with 4 other guys for the finish and my ex-teammate Jason started the sprint with me on his wheel and just as I started to go around him another guy started coming around me on the inside so I backed off and got on his wheel as i started my sprint a little bit to late and almost nipped him at the line , I thought I had beaten him but as the photo finish revealed that he won the sprint buy about a half an inch for 6th place I was happy that I was able to make it back on the group for 7th place.
Overall I was happy with my finish and it was a good test to see how my fitness was coming along and showed me that I have to work on my climbing skills and I should be set and have good form in a couple weeks.

untill next time, Cole