There's nothing like three races in two days to whoop you straight into the season. My favorite announcer would say "welcome to downtown pain city!", and that's exactly where I spent my weekend. The Time Trial was the first event of the weekend, but it was just a warmup compared to the crit later in the afternoon. They combined our category with the open women, which had strong teams from Excel Sports Boulder & Vitamin Cottage. The open girls were going for it every chance they got and the collegiate girls were going hard for premes, so it was a tough race. Ticia, my Mesa State teammate, laid down a super strong race and managed to get two of the points premes. She took 4th out the collegiate girls and I took 9th, but those places gave us 1st & 2nd out of the Division II women.
This morning was the circuit race, which shouldn't have been too bad, but I didn't have anything left in my legs. The Fort Lewis girls really worked it well, and charged up the hills like no one's business. They eventually claimed 1st and 2nd places, but we got to suffer for about an hour & a half first. As soon as we were done, the A men were sent off. About halfway through, the Mesa boys managed to get Mitch into a break that made it all the way through the race. Chris, Nate and Kevin all finished with the main pack, which gave us some good finishes for the weekend.
