Friday, July 31, 2009

Friday night Kreb race - Win & Out

A bit of racing again. Friday after work Py went out to the Friday Night Kreb Race at Riverhead Community Collage, a short but nice and clean 2.75km loop.

A few racers with family showed up around 5..5:30pm, some dark clouds passed by, it stayed but nice, warm and dry -- just the usual high humidity, and may be a few drops. Py talked a bit to an unknown (let call him X) younger rider parking just to his left. Every one get set up and ready, by the time Chris arrived with the registration paperwork, all set. Just a few known faces.

A few warmup laps...

Start was a bit after 6:15pm, as there were just a very few A's, they decided to go together with the B's, but with an 3minute delay so they had some extra work to catch up. After that the C's with some kids and other slower riders got stared.

Py started with the B's, they rolled out very conservatively and this more or less stayed the whole time like this -- little bored, but OK moving -- even he tried to avoid being in the front, he ended up there quite often, howere, best spot to stay safe. I turned out that also X was always around there and they did a major part of they move. A least a good workout, even other sprinters took advantage of that as usual -- so what, lasy dudes, do not care.

Just for fun he took off and dropped the group at lap 4 and 5 -- may had been able to hold teh gap for longer if not the few A riders just caught the B field about that time and pulled them back on, but also at this time the B field got split apart, it got a bit more fun as the A's took moves. Also about that time the few drops of rain intensified and the road got soaked and it got wet. Not as wet as at the TTT, but wet enought to be toatally soaked, but it was still comfortable and warm. Only annoying for Py was some (why so ever) slighly burning feel in the eyes making it not easier to see through these wet glasses. Approaching the last 4 laps out of 16 there was a sprint and at this point the win&out took place. Still wet and now pretty good steady raining every one was a bit more careful... Py went for the first sprint, not 100% certain, but be leaved to get over the line just 2nd... worked together with X again, but passed X this time. However, that took some effords and thus the sprints to go were not as good, but still always in the first 3 or 4... The last lap he pulled X out, and X managed to go ahead. Fun ride -- even wet.

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