chasing upgrade points

round 2 of racing for upgrade ponts. the weekend of 8th and 9th was a dissappointment at best. and with a few days to put it into perspective............well, i'm still pissed. saturdays 'spring fling' crits was fairly standard cat 4 racing. however, the 'bicycle shack' guys really impressed. i think 4 guys finished in the points. they seemed to be everywhere, chasing down attacks, initiating attacks, and dominating the point sprints. yet somehow, this dumbass could never find one of their wheels once the bell rand for a sprint lap. go figure. i am not a guy thats going to outsprint a bunch of guys to the line. i am going to have to be smart and follow the right wheels if i want results in a crit. at least for now, with no sprint work added into my training yet, i have got to race a lot smarter than this past weekend. i have no excuses, i just really really %^$# al 3 sprints up. i finished 5th on the to midrace point sprints, missing out on points by 1 place each time. then.............racing to the line on the bell lap of the race, i had a shot at 3rd with 2 guys just up the road and probably out of reach. i was following a really good wheel in Tyler Henson into a 20mph headwind...........still 500-600 metres to the line............i proceed to lose all sense of intelligence and leave Ty's wheel to go it alone............like i am actually going to bridge up to the 2 up the road(frigin' dumbass)............even if i did get to them, i wasnt going to get them at the line, cuz i already killed myself just to get on their wheel. instead, i go from having a 'wheel out' for he sprint for 3rd whith probably a finsh no worse than 5th and garnering some valuable points...........to getting swarmed by 7-8 guys at the line.............which left me in 9th place on the final sprint and again 1 place out of the points.
Swallow that bitter friggin' pill! Friggin' Dumbass!!!
obviosly i am still pissed, pissed at myself. i thought i knew better.
perspective...................hmm.................lesson learned and get better from it, i guess.

so sunday's road race.............i bagged it. i didn't feel good, and ifelt like a couple of days rest and time off the bike would do me some good. i didnt think or didn't realize that the previous weekend of racing both saturday and sunday would hit my like it has.
so a day early into a 'down' week of training and maybe i'll be rested for this weekend of racing................
Saturday(today) is the 'heartland spoke-pony 3/6hour' mtb race at landahl reserve park............NO GO...............friggin 1/2 inch of rain and friggin dusting of snow on an already oversaturated ground has canceled the second mtb race of the year. WOW! how friggin depressing.......... oh well, that means i'll be rested for tommorrows "perry road race".

i will try to give an earlier update of results next post, along with some pics. here is a link to last couple of weekends results...springfling#1http://www.sunflower.com/~cmartell/kca/files/2008/results/spring_fling_1.pdf
springfling#2http://www.sunflower.com/~cmartell/kca/files/2008/results/spring_fling_2.pdf
perryRR#1http://www.sunflower.com/~cmartell/kca/files/2008/results/perry_rr_1.pdf
perryRR#2http://www.sunflower.com/~cmartell/kca/files/2008/results/perry_rr_2.pdf

until next time.