Wow...It's Been Over A Month

After looking at my last blog, I've realized it's been well over a month since posting anything. Not too much has been happening but there has been some significant things since my last post:

Westlake Race #9 - 6/3/08 - found 9 of us racing in the B Group in a slow rain. My evening ended early on lap 3 when I went down in the sharp turn #2 at around 22 mph. Lucky for me, the road was wet and I slid across the pavement with only receiving a rather large strawberry on my right hip. That was my first race crash and certainly, not my last.

6/8/08 - After getting dropped from the Mill Creek Crit in Youngstown, I decided to lose about 20 lbs. Well the progress to date is 7 lbs. lost. Current weight is 183lbs. and I'm shooting for 170 lbs.

6/10/08 - I followed up my disappointing showing in Youngstown with a 1st place at Westlake Race #10. This added the fuel to really lose the weight I need to.

Most recently, Westlake Race #12, found Team SBR back with numbers in the B Group. With my teammates, Matt O., Jason Rapp, Mike Larimer, Jimmy N., Ian Hoffman, Dave Kovach, and El Presidente, we fired off attacks the first part of the race. With about 6 laps to go, Jason attacks and El Presidente bridges up. At this point, we had 4 SBR riders at the front of the group blocking. Two riders squeezed thru and made the bridge up. With us at the front of the group, we did all we could to let the break get away. Matt O. took over as the Team Leader and directed the rest of us here and there to help maintain the break. The race finished with Team SBR taking 1st and 3rd. Great job all around to Team SBR for using good team tactics and to Jason and El Presidente for their podium finish.

Stats: 40 miles in 1:38:00 @ 24.3 mph avg.