Tyson's Corner Curcuit Race

Hello,

Damp and cold was the name of the game for Suday's Curcuit Race. The course was 1.2 miles and featured a long up hill drag (about 500+ meters), and a long drag down. The race was 60 minutes long. The race started off pretty fast, but not a blistering pace. After about 20 minutes of racing, I cover a fast acceleration up the long hill, and I work with the rider who accelerated, but she dropped off the next time up the hill. I proceeded to do 2 laps or so by myself. Then a counter group of 4 came up to me, and we worked together for the next 10+ minutes, but we were having a hard time keeping our paceline smooth so we were caught. I tried one more little acceleration, but the peleton was having non of that. We finished up a few more laps and then on the bell lap the swarming started to happen a bit. I had to move up the outside with very little draft and then I started my sprint without any lead out, but managed 4th in the women 1/2 category. It was a good day out, and my legs were strong.

Thanks for reading,
Rachel