Sunday's road race

Well the road race was fun and was very hilly. It went from Falcon Lake to Ingolf and back again, there were some sever climbs for our flat area but was good. The road was okay some potholes but not bad. We had a controlled start or a neutral start for the first little while because of all the drive ways in the area and the RCMP wanted us to do it so we did. However one guy from FOG decided the pace we were doing was too slow we were doing about 30 k's so he picked it up a bit. I wanted everyone to have fun in the race but I guess he wanted to drop some folks. Well the group held up pretty good for the first half some people went sprinting out and so some times I would chase them down just to get the pack going so no one would get away. Then the little hills started coming and the speed picked up not sure what it was too busy looking ahead. The leader of the race took off and no one followed however the guy I wanted to help said we should drop him and make him work to get back, so I took off to see who would chase but no one did. Oh well he got back on. Thinking back this was not a good idea I should have been nicer to him. Next time maybe do this. Well we reached the top of the climb and we had to do a 180 back on the same road and I was on the outside and the person on the inside did not turn soon enough and I was dropped. I had to fight to get my way back up to the pack of 6-7 of us which was hard since it was hilly.
Once I rejoined the group it was okay I took a breather at the back of the pack. It was fun we reached speeds of up to 60+ k's per hours. If I would have peddled instead of gliding I could have got it up even higher. I took the lead for a while since I was rested but when I tried to give it up no one wanted to lead. I also tried to slow down since I could see a few riders back trying to catch up, they never did. We were just getting back to the main road with about 12 or13 k's to go and going up hill when these two guys took off. I was working with some one and I thought he might tag them and stay with them but he didn't. This fellow rider and I were going to go for it too after the turn but we were now struggling to get them back in the pack. I urged everyone to work as a team and pick them up but no one did. SO I took the lead and bridged the gap for all of us, I told my partner to let them lead since they were tired but he didn't also thinking back that would have been a good time for us to go for it since they were tired. Not sure if it would have worked but it would have been worth to try. Next time. I was spent at that time. I tried to remain at the back so I could coast a little but I had little luck with that. I did try to go with my partner once but we did not make it. Near the end 4 guys took off and I was on the wrong wheel and the guy I was behind did not bridge the gap, so I then sprinted at the end just to beat him. I finished the road portion in 5th. I finished 4th overall, not bad for a 43-year-old guy going up against much younger ones in my opinion. I am hoping I can do better in my next race, which won't happen till some time in July. There is the leg burner race in June on fathers day but Jane is running the marathon, the next one after that is on the July long weekend and we will be camping as a family so I will miss that one. So sooner or later I will attend one.
I was not sore after this race either so I am wondering if I am not trying hard enough!!
Any way I am hoping to update you all more often.

The Crit

Here is the continuation from the previous post
The second race was the crit and it was held in the town of falcon lake, the race was 25 min plus 3 laps. The course was 2 tight turns and one gradual one. It was not very long, not even sure how long one lap took us. Forgot to look. We were the first ones to go and that was good, I will tell you later why, there were 10 guys and 5 girls in this race. At the start I wanted to go out first since I was not taken corners that fast before and I did not want to be behind some goof and crash. So I was leading the first couple of laps, no one wanted to take the lead. Well then we started to fly, the course was rough and there were a couple of good pot holes which I took once or twice, man that hurts the boys. Well there was about 6 of us that broke away from the rest of the group and we started to go fast and then slower we lapped a few people and that caused some problems. Not sure how fast we were going to scared to look anywhere else besides the guys wheel in front of me. It was going well and I kept up with the group and tried to stay at the front so as not to get dropped. Did pretty good in that regard. There were some preims, which is a prize for the one who wins a sprint during one of the laps. I had no sprinting legs and it cost me a few seconds and prizes. I have to remember that this is my first race so I have to be happy right.
Well I came in 5th here is the link, you will have to cut and past to get it, sorry about that. Http://www.cycling.mb.ca/roadresults/may29.pdf but over all I was still in 4th place. My legs felt good and had no problems. Had to rush home so I could meet my wife for supper and movie thing. Tim from Woodcocks sold me some stuff to put in the water to help save your legs and this stuff works. I will get the name and publish it later.
Well as I was driving home during the second crit there was a major accident sending 3 guys to the hospital one guy had a broken thumb. There was a lot of guys with road rash. The accident was caused by a guy who tried to bunny hop a pot hole and landed funny and caused the guy beside him to go down, which then caused the chain reaction. Saw my buddy Chris the next day and he was okay and so was everyone else. But this accident cause the cancellation of the cat 4 and 3 crits so they only had the road race left.

Saturday's Time trial

Well here is the continuation from Saturday night post
The first race was a time trial at hunt lake it was 6km's long or so and it was up and down some small hills which felt bigger than what they were. The road was less than desirable but hey you work with what you have. I passed one guy and I felt I did okay. Going up the hill I was tired and had a sore throat but my legs felt good. Probably could have gone a little harder. At one point looked at the heart rate monitor and it was over 160 yikes.
My time was 11min 18 sec's. Good for 4th place, third place was just 4 seconds quicker than I was. Second was only a few seconds ahead of the 3rd place guy. I sure wanted a burger after that but the next race was only a couple of hours away so I had to hold off.
Which you will read next.

Saturday night

Sorry for not updating this page for a while but hey who knows who reads it, besides myself.
We are still having soccer three times a week can't wait till it's over. Last two practices we had 3 kids out and one of them was mine. So still can not work on some basic concepts. Oh well.
We had a good week, my youngest was having problems waking up and getting ready first thing in the morning's but this last week she has been really good and Jane gave her a present for that. Trying to reinforce the idea that getting up is necessary and that since time is short in the morning she has to get a move on it quickly.
Jane has 15 more days of teaching and she is quite happy with that. The principle told her that she gets to teach all the same classes next year. Bio 11 and 12's and Marine science. So less prepping to do for her, which means I will see her more, yea.
I just want to tell the world that I love her and that no one could take her place in my life.
This weekend we went to see the new star wars and we thought that it was great we went out for supper first to Moxie's and the food was good, but not great.
This last weekend was my real first bike race and I was scared sh..t less to actually go into it. After 17 years of absence from the scene I thought I would die out there. The race was at the falcon lake area, there were three races held in two days.