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Adam Born - Brad Herman and I went up to Race #1 of the Kentucky/Indiana Spring Training series Saturday morning and the weather was - in a word- foul! Ironically when we all left Somerset at 7 AM it was over 40 degrees and clear and sunny! As we entered Louisville/Metro - it was 32 degrees and snowing! Wind gusts were up to 30 MPH but that did not prevent a great turnout for this early season race!
Even though weather conditions were brutal - there were several hundred cyclists at the event including all of the regions biggest and best teams. Brad and Adam raced the CAT 4-5 race while I raced in the Cat 3-4. These series races are not divided by age! Adam and Brad were both pleased with their results but Adam was quoted as saying "It's the most fun i can imagine having without breaking the law"! Adam was present for a field finish and is reasonably sure he finished "Same Time" in the top 15.
Each field consisted of about 50 riders and with the wind - the pack really moved and jostled around and it was sometimes hard to get a good wheel - several bad crashes occurred as well -
I don't know how fast the 4-5 race was but I can attest that the 3-4 race was brutally fast! My field was to complete 5 ten mile laps and small breakaways launched one right after the other right from the start! I jumped in and helped chase down some of the breakaways but after thirty very fast miles- I decided that i could no longer help keep things intact and in fact- i had a hard time even fightinginternally to stay in the front half of the pack. I was at the back of the pack and i was content just recovering when I realized that the pack had split somewhere in front of me and i was in the second half. I was able to hitch a ride back to the main pack with two other riders but that took about 15 minutes of very high effort. When we caught the back of the main field i continued to sit on the back until - after a few miles - a second split occurred and i was unable to neutralize it.
For Cumberland Cycles - this was a training race and what an excellent one it was! It was brutally cold and our races were fast! And we got at least one top 15 finish with Adam!!
The next race in this excellent series is March 10 in Henryville IN: Henryville Classic There is also a race in Knoxville, TN that same day and that race is sectioned by age!
Sunday March 4
CLUB RIDE
Time: 1:30 PM @ The Vision Center
Type: moderate
Distance: what everybody wants to do after racing the day before
YMCA SPINNING CLASSES
845 AM – m-w-f
500 PM - m- t-thrs
600 PM Fridays
SOMERSET ATHLETICS CLUB SPINNING CLASSES
7:15 PM: m t th
6:15 PM w
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