Party Big aka Fiesta Grande

I wasn't sure I was even going to race this one. Tuesday that week I woke up congested and a sore throat. So I went out for a 1 hour easy spin that evening. Wednesday was even worse, I was achey too. I had my daughter after work so I put here in the trailer and tried to do an easy 1.5hrs, although its hard to do anything real easy with that much of a wind catcher in windy Corpus Christi. Thursday I felt a bit better and for whatever reason I decided to pull the trigger and race.

Friday evening had a 10mile technical TT on Fort Sam Houston. The course was not really closed and only about half the intersections were guarded. It was a bit scary barreling full speed through intersections with cars waiting at the stop signs. I think the fact that traffic laws are much more strictly enforced on military installations had a lot to do with making it out alive.

I have my TT position dialed in. I'm not happy with how high my front end is right now, but the hip angle is perfect I think. This was the first effort where my power was good, my legs felt strong and at the end I wasn't cramping. Usually my glutes are hurting so bad by the end, but this time I felt like I had just got off of my road bike. I think I will measure my hip angle and then move the front end down a little, and adjusting the saddle to keep the angles the same. Power output was good for me in the TT position: ~23min @ 330w+.



Saturday afternoon we came back for a crit. The goal here was to get Colton or I into the break. We covered everything and Colton was able to get into the 12man split. I tried getting across with a few riders but was trying to be careful not to pull a large chunk of the field up. I knew c-money has a good sprint and could finish it off better than I could. He ended up 4th!



Sunday was a hilly circuit race and I was not feeling great, the lack of mileage in my legs this week was evident towards the end. I wanted to respond to some late attacks, and I did but didn't really have the horse power to make anything stick. The field was all together on the last lap except for Serrano up the road solo, Colton took off with 2miles to go, about a half mile later Robbinette attacked and caught Colton. They worked to gether and Colton was able to hold onto third with the pack storming behind by just a few seconds.