JMSR wrap-up
all in all, not a bad race. any NRC (national race calendar, ie pro) top ten finish we get is good. this brings us up to 3 for the last two races. not bad at all. not what we were doing last year, but hey, that was unusual.
i think the race has outgrown itself and the promoter is aware of that. he knows he shouldn't have let in 200 riders and it sounds like he's going to split the race into two races: pro/1 and categry 1/2. not a bad idea. i'd make it just category 2. but nobody is asking me. they should. hell, if the bush administration had asked me before this iraq boondogle i'd have told them there were no wmd's and that the political outcome would be chaos and murder. but they didn't. i wrote letters though. i digress.
results were pretty messed up at the race too. this wasn't really the promoter's fault and he said he thinks it will be better next year. before the second road stage wherry was telling me that two of their riders who never picked up their packets or signed in before the stage were awarded top ten finishes in the first stage. he joked that now they had to defend their places. i said that was going to be tough cause they probably woudn't be able to make any of the splits or breaks. yeah, that's rough.
the courses are solid though. love the courses. quite challenging. the competition was tougher this year. my 9:55 was worth 40th place last year. this year it was 80th or so. big difference. hell, i beat last year's time by 15 seconds and finished 20 places further back.
we're excited and determined for next week's race. we have a good group of guys who are eager to work together. ah yeah!
