Gloucester

[Voodoo Sally]

I raced Gloucester, too, both days. You had great results, SheFly, even if not quite what you wanted. And Trigirlpink, great to finally say hi to you. And Wavedancer, nice Frank bike!

The action in the back of the 3/4 Women's race was as heated as at the front, I guess. This course was very fast and not too technical, and favored road racers. I tried my hardest. Saturday I got jammed at the start, in spite of my trying to have a good start. I went too fast and aggressively in a couple of spots, and crashed twice. Oops! Sat. I got 36 out of 52. Sun. I tried to relax more, and I did better. No screw-ups at the start, no dumb moves, and no crashes. And I got 2 min. faster time. 26th out of 42 for Sunday. I have a woman who I regularly go head to head with for most of these races, and it was nice for me to try to beat her, which I did. AND I had my first-ever road sprint to the finish line against another woman, which was really intense, hurt pretty bad, and which worked out well for me! I felt like such the road racer then.