COLD!

This whole weekend was cold. I raced the CO Velidrijden crusade and it was sooo cold. It was 3 laps of course around Bear Creek Lake Park. It was actually the course for Battle of the Bear and I only made it 2 laps. This was the complete opposite of the Open race at Interlocken today, the #2 in the Boulder Cyclocross Series. There were 56 guys in my race and they were FAST. There were legit pros there, which is no surprise because it was in Boulder. Out of the 3 times I have done this race I have to say this course set-up was the best. Also the conditions made it more of a Belgie-X cross race, rather than a grass crit. I started 2nd row but I got bottle-necked on the first corner and I dropped to about 30th. It just went from there. It was about 28 degrees out and I was able to move up on the really short course until I moved into 17th place with a chaser right on my wheel on 6 laps to go. We kept having a battle royale until the end where I was able to get a gap in the sand on him and then eventually out sprint him. This 17th place gave me the 2nd highest place among juniors in the open race, let alone being the youngest in the category. I actually placed one place behind yannick eckmann who was not having such a good day but still was near the lead group of super-fast guys. I was the first rider outside that group to finish. Despite placing lower than I did at Frisco last weekend in the open race, the competition was much more fierce and I would say this is one of my best races so far. I wasn't in such shock with the 1 hour effort and I'm very proud about how I did:)