The Good the Bad and the Ugly

So I race a TTT and a crit this weekend. Since none of my teammates live here I had to ride the TTT with a couple of former teammates from Team KAOS. It was a pretty good race about 8.5 miles technical course. I think we won by over a minute but it was nothing really special. All we won was our entry fee to the crit later that day. The Good: I won the crit lapped the field I'm not too sure that anyone else even pulled during the entire race. I went off the front on the lap and tried to make it fast. Someone told me that there were guys off the back after the first couple of laps, which brings me to the Bad: the field. It was by no means a star-studded field but some local racers showed up and road hard. Being the first race of the year many people around here are just getting into it, Im sure races are just going to get faster. Next is the Ugly: A crash that happened at the end of the race as I was finishing with the lapped group, a tight corner 75 meters from the finish claimed a victim. Some guys were sprinting for 5th or 6th for no money, no prizes, nothing really. I have never seen a bike fly so high up in the air. They took him away in an ambulance I think that he is going to be ok though. It just goes to show how competitive cyclists are at any level or any commitment. These guys with nothing to gain or win threw caution to the wind and were sprinting like mad for a nothing more that pride. All in all it was a great day of racing and hopefully there are many more to come.

Jarred