Still Learning at nearly 40...

Stones sing "time, time, time.... is on my side....yes it is" Good to know as I learned yet another lesson during this final weekend of racing in the Spring Series. During the Masters 35+ race, I was hoping just to sit and sprint. It looked as though this would happen until a little after completing lap 1, one guy got off the front and then another and yet another. The filed seemed very content to allow anyone but Pat McCallion and myself to get away. We each tried on several attempts to escape both together and separately. I was finally able to escape and hooked up with Joe R from Land Rover to roll away. We soon rolled up on two more guys and stayed away until the finish. We never caught one guy that was putting in quite a TT performance and had been out front since lap one. As we came into the finish two guys decided not to contest the sprint, which left myself and one other unknown(to me) rider for the sprint for 2nd. I felt quite confident I could out sprint this guy and just sat on this wheel. He had been pushing a huge gear all day and I just did not see any sign of sprint. WRONG....he jumped and got a quick bike length gap...UHHH....RRRut Rrrrroo RAGY...I was able to get back to his wheel and then jumped myself. I got my own bike length gap and thought I have this...UHHHHH... WRONG...again. He was able to get back to my wheel at about 100 meters and I well just plain got TOOK at the line. VERY VERY disappointing. I could use 100 different old guy racer excuses but point is...well he took my lunch money. Just another LE(learned experience) of this little think called BIKE RACING!


Congrats to Pat McCallion for winning the overall in the Master 35+!