Great report, Eden. I agree with Knott---would love to come see you race sometime. Let us know if there's any particular race you'd like us to show up for...
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03-12-2007, 12:40 AM #1
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03-12-2007, 06:01 AM #2
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Yes, the only races I've seen are the ones at Seward park, and they are usually 100 men and 1 woman. Do give us some advanced warning!
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03-19-2007, 08:24 AM #3
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hmmmm - most of my races aren't all that close into town (alas I usually skip the two crits that are right in Seattle). If I decide to do the Seward Park Spring Classic I will let everyone know - It is the 15th of April.
"Sharing the road means getting along, not getting ahead" - 1994 Washington State Driver's Guide
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03-19-2007, 08:43 AM #4
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New Race Report - Market Street RR
But hey - more exciting - my next race report.
I decided to only race on Sunday this weekend (allergies had been bothering me). It was supposed to be nice... well it was drizzling once again when I got there. We set up our trainers under a picinic shelter and warmed up, not looking to forward to getting wet and gritty. We had a fairly big group on the road with a few more of our new gals out for their first race (and there were NO crashes this time -yeah!) One of the other teams had really dominating numbers out and the other teams were only there in ones and twos. Our races are short so once again the attacks started in the first couple of miles of the race. We held it together for the first lap (of 3) when one of the girls from the dominating team managed to get a gap. It took her teammates a little while to figure out that they should not be chasing their own gal..... but then they settled down and did exactly what they should have, let us (me and the two of my teammates who were left at the front) chase. We didn't get any help from the other teams either. So it was the three of us chasing, chasing, chasing. We could see the leader for most of the race, but there were too few of us to pull her back. Still it was a good race and my strongest teammate took 3rd. I was 9th - still in the top 10 and not too bad for all the work I'd been doing (and the horrible cough I have from the d@mn allergies - really it sounds worse than it is, so I hope my coughing and wheezing wasn't scaring people too much!). It did rain the whole time an I came back pretty digustingly muddy. Of course it stopped raining right after the race.... We cleaned off the bikes in the front yard after we got home. It was nice to be out in the sun."Sharing the road means getting along, not getting ahead" - 1994 Washington State Driver's Guide
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03-19-2007, 08:52 AM #5
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take care of that cough. you're right, it WOULD scare me.
cool that you took 9th... and then got to sit in t he sun.
that sun WAS nice, wasn't it?
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