weekend

crit pic

road race pic

SATURDAY:today was the UW Whitewater crit. this was a very hard race for me because I walked around six flags for about 6 hours the day before. this race had a lot of stopping and starting with a scary fast decent. Sarah went down on the first lap at the bottom of the downhill where there was a very bumpy driveway. after that it was just caleb and peter on the front trying to pop us team mars people. when the last lap came nate took off at the perfect time and he won but when caleb went with him i didn't have the legs right away and chased to late and caleb beat me by about 1/3 of wheel. it was very close so i got third and gage ended up fourth in points and fifth overall

SUNDAY:today was the UW Whitewater road race. this was a pretty fun race because we had a big group and everyone was doing some work. half way through the first lap we caught the older age group that had started 5 minutes ahead of us. we sat on the back of that group for the rest of that lap then right after the finish line we passed them and then they passed us on the downhill just for us to pass them again about two miles up the road. after that we stayed ahead of them until the finish. with a mile to go until the finish i was boxed in and no one was moving anywhere. up the final hill the kid from Michigan started the sprint and nate went with it right next to him. i had to go around caleb which i did and pass nate and Michigan kid which i did to get the win. I got the win with nate in third(winning the podium)and gage right after nate. i got a sweet lance armstrong poster for winning.

thursday

today I went on a short fairly easy ride with my sister over to pets then did a couple laps then came back. then later I went out with gage and we went to pets for hillclimbs then out to sanders for a couple of laps then back to pets for somemore hillclimbs.

wednesday

today we went up to crystal ridge to do the Wednesday night race. me and nate were just cruising with us having the three day race weekend(at least for him)for me it was only a two race weekend. we did three laps and i caught nate towards the end of the second lap and we just cruised the next lap then we waited for jeremey and gage to ride the last lap with them. nate just barely ended up beating me by 8 seconds.

tuesday

today was track in the night ride in the day. for the ride me and gage tried to go ride at pets while jeremey did a road ride due to a bad shoulder. it was soaked out at pets from yesterdays rain. so we did one little really hard loop a couple of times then road back to my house. at about 6 we headed out for the track. i raced my age race and constalation(not sure on spelling). i didn't do so good in the age races i got 2 thirds to sarah and chazz. but in constalation(spelling) i finished in the field on the lead lap. so i was very happy about that.

monday

today me my sister and andy went for a pretty easy cruise around kenosha. it was really windy out and i hammered for like the last two miles just going all out. after the ride we went over to andys and eventually ended up in the pool. and then rained so we got out so that we didn't get struck by lightning.

weekend

SATURDAY:today was the giro de grafton in grafton. it was a pretty fun race even though it was smoking hot outside. i got the pace of the race going right off the line because i was the first one cliped in. after that me and gage just sat on and made caleb and peter pull. there were a couple of prem sprints and i got one of them. it was tickets to a blues festival which we gave to kevin and amy. on the finishing strait peter was pulling and i came around him and won with gage right on my wheel. i won 75 dollars!

SUNDAY:today was the fon du lac crit. after getting lost on the way there, it rained on us during our race. it was an easy ride because we were going slow because of the slick turns. one kid ended up going down. but it was nothing bad. i ended up winning some sweet 70 dollar sub woofer headphones!

thursday

today we went on just a little cuise around kenosha, but from the beginning i knew it wasn't going to be good. when jeremey and gage first got to my house jeremey didn't have his gloves or his helmet. so we started riding towards there house to get his helmet. after he had gotten his helmet and we were back on the road it was over to the velodrome for us. we did quite a few laps over there. gage was still trying to get used to the track a little bit. after that we headed out on the little paved path thats by the velodrome going south. we got up to that rode and took it toward the lake. just as we were getting going down that way gage flated so jeremey gave gage his front wheel then as jeremey was riding away to go get picked up i got a flat so he gave me his rear wheel. so jeremey got picked up from where we were and me and gage headed out and did a little ride down by the lake.

wednesday

today we went up to crystal ridge for the wednesday night race. I did pretty good on the first lap and then i was riding smoothly with a fast group when i went down. i lost my water bottle but didn't know it. when i went to reach for it right after i got up and it wasn't there i had to go back and get it so i lost that group and started cramping so i slowed way down. i was still the first junior even though there were only 3 of us.

spring prarie road race

today was the state championship road race. i got first gage got second and nate got third in age and fourth overall. we started with a neutral mile up to the top of the hill which was really easy. every one who wasn't going to be with us was off the back right away. after our group was all together the first person off the back was because of a flat. the climb after he got a flat i tried fly the coup and i almost got off but i died and couldn't get up the hill as hard as i wanted to and got caught. that same lap nate tried to fo on an attack on the down hills but couldn't so then i tried to continue it but coundn't and then gage tried and couldn't so we gave up for that round. on that hill we just sat up and sat a wheel. nothing happened the second lap until the final sprint when evan was leading it out with nat on his wheel and me on his wheel and gage on my wheel. right away at the very bottom i went and ended up making it. i felt really strong so i just went. nate and evan were ahead of gage but died at the top and gage passed them. nate just didn't have it in him to kick it with gage so he ended up fourth with gage in second.

thursday

today we went riding out at pets and i didn't feel good.

tuesday

tuesday was a wierd day. during school i was expecting bmx after school but then it got rained out so i had my first and probibly last track night of the year. before any racing though me, jeremey, and gage went for a quick road ride. at track i got a third in my first race which was a 3 lap sprint. in the second race, a snowball, i got sixth. i raced like crap. so i was all mad when my mom went to get me mcdonalds. when she got back it was 2 races away from my race. i ate fast and then had no time to warm up plus i had a new gear on that i wasn't ready for. i got lapped like 3 or 4 times. it wasn't my day.

pets

origanally we were going to go out to palos but then that didn't work so we were going to go to crystal ridge then it rained so we stayed in town and went to pets. we rode there from my house and then rode PETS for a while. it was super hard after yesterday but i felt pretty good. after the ride we rode back to my house.

big hills

today me, gage, and jeremey went out to the state road race coarse to do some hill sprints on the big hill. we ended up doing 4 hard hard ones one pretty hard one and one warm-up one. after that we rode around the area on a couple of roads that jeremey knew about. even those roads out there were pretty hard. i was feeling great the whole time though. overall it was a good ride.