hey everybody
so last weekend was the evanston superweek crit. the course was crazy tight, 6 turn circuit. it was my first superweek race, and after hearing all the horror stories, i was a bit intimidated. turns out the stories were more or less true. there were a lot of crashes (a few right next to me) and it was pretty fast too. the legs felt good, but the cornering confidence was not where it needed to be. at the end of the 100k, what hurt most was my back and hands, rather than my legs. but anyways, i kept it upright and finished i think 54th, one of the last riders in the main field. my teammate mike (who i did pretty much nothing to help) ended up 20th.
this past weekend was the chicago crit in grant park. what a cool race! it was a beautiful day and the course was ideal for me: wide open roads, only 4 non-technical corners, and the scenery was hard to beat too- quite different from your standard industrial park crit. i felt really good for this race too, and this time was able to make something more of it. well, not really. i still finished 57th, but i raced the front and got in a few breaks (one featuring chris horner), although nothing lasted longer than a lap. anyways, after being as active as i could, i again tried to help out mike in the closing laps by pulling him up the straights, but he is a crazy man in the corners and turns out to be quite hard to follow around a criterium course. he got caught behind a last lap crash, which was unfortunate for us.
thanks to all who came out to cheer me on in these races. it makes it a lot easier with your support. i hope everyone is doing well and getting ready for some intense walker brothers rides come september.
- will
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