Racing in Mass day 1

Mark and I just finished the Stirbridge RR. We got up around 8am, and it was already raining. I was praying to the God's above to make it stop as starting in the rain is always a bummer, but it didn't. The whole day, it was raining, pretty hard, non stop.

The field wasn't too big, around 60-70 guys. The Louis Garneau team had the numbers with about seven guys. This race was only 95k, so the tactic was to get up the road early and never look back. After a ton of attacks never getting more than twenty seconds, it was coming down to a dreaded field sprint on wet roads.

Pozzy went hard with 5k to go, and brought two guys with him, it was looking good, but the pack wasn't having any of it. As soon as Pozzy got caught, it was time to set me up for the last 200m. I got on Pozzy's wheel, he brought me close to the front, but he had enough, still gassed from his effort. I bounced off a few wheels and finished a disappointing 7th. Mark and I are both going well, and looking for a win, but a field sprint is always a crap shoot.

Tomorrow's a 130k RR, and if the rain ever stops, it should be a different race.

I'll let you know how we end up.