Monday July 10, 2006 East Troy, WI Superweek Race #3 Alpine Valley Road Race

Well today was a drag! I considered not doing this race as road races make me suffer. But I showed up any how for my daily over dose of lactic acid and O2 debt. Turned out I had good legs and was hanging with the leaders. Until my rear derailer cable snapped on the 3rd lap climb one. I was tried climbing in my 39/11. WoW! I don't have that much power. So 3/4's of a lap later I borrowed a bike from SRAM neutral support and test road a Colnago with the cool SRAM shifters. It was a bit diferent though I think I could get used to them. I had no chance of catching anyone but the scraps of flesh that we ejected on lap one climb one, so I did what any descent racer would do, I hid in the trees until my group came around. I had to time trial up to them as I was about 50 years behind them when I came out of the bushes. But I managed to bridge and was on the wheel of my closest competitor until my nagging conscience told me this was a bad idea. So I dropped and rode across the line in 9th announcing to the officials that I was DNF.