First road race of the season on Saturday and second TT on Sunday (the first TT last Saturday was well, messed up. They did not put in the turn around cone until about 45 riders went off..... )

The road race went quite nicely. It was also the first of the CAT 3 only races for the year! We had a good field of around 20 cat 3 women come out. Our team had the best representation there so we put in a lot of attacks and finally at around the beginning of lap 3 one of our riders got off for good with one other person, who happened to be from the team with the next largest number of riders. That meant tempo for our two teams and there were few takers to get up and try to push the pace from any of the other riders... One unattached woman tried, but without teammates she was pretty well out of luck. Around 1/2 way through the final and 4th lap we decided that our gal up the road had plenty of lead and we could play again. We started putting in attacks and really pushed up the pace going in toward the finish. I'm not sure how many we shelled coming into the sprint, but I know a few went. I picked a nice big gal and let her give me a lead out (which even though she didn't know it, she did an admirable job) and took out 4th or 5th in the field sprint. Someone started the sprint waaaay early... its a long 200m in the first place and someone chose to go before the sign - OUCH baby. We didn't wait around for the final results, so I'm not totally sure yet.

The TT today went well also. I wasn't pre-registered so I probably did get a bit more wind than the one woman who went nearly first thing in the morning (it's a pretty typical in this valley that it will be very calm early with building wind during the morning, changing directions right about noon!)- but heck, I got to sleep longer... I think all of us who were there today, also did the road race yesterday, so no fresh legs in the field either. It definitely took a toll on some people - I beat a few that would probably normally take me. I took 6th and a minute off of my best time on this course (and I am not by any means a TT specialist - I'm small and light, not too built for raw power...) so I am quite pleased. I finally have my TT helmet now too - I think I need to make sure I'm positioned well for using it... I'm finding its difficult to hold my head up as high as I'd like, and probably as high as would be ideal for taking advantage of the helmet.