TOUR OF KILLER CITY (KC)
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| CAT III CREW Brian, I, Grayson, & David |
Saturday at Tour of Kansas City its 49th
Year! That’s pretty awesome being
apart of something that has been around for this long and it’s only my second
road season. Please come out and
Join for the 50th year also some rumor is going around and will most
likely happen because The Museum over on Cliff Drive wants the bike race back
for a Crit! Should be awesome supposedly Killer City (KC) is known for this
course and I’ve done some training rides out there its would be killer course.
Saturday’s race: Joe and I rolled up in his dynamo truck and
watched some of the3/4’s race and shortly after Joe had to get ready to put his
game face on. I did my best to
find shade and just drink water and eat light before the 3’s race. I know it’s a local race but it’s
demanding on your body to do TWO races in one day. With a 3-hour waiting period between ¾’s, woman 1-2-3, 3’s
but that’s pretty demanding on your body.
Before you know it heat will be getting to you and heat will eat away at
all that muscle you built up!
You can’t tell me that you are doing this for fitness or
training. These local races should
be your top race even though they are at home its also almost the end of road
season out in the Midwest so performing well should be a must and not killing
your self in the heat is a better idea.
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| Its Hot! |
So our race starts and I start 2/3 row that’s pretty much
the tail end of us racing because we get a 3 lane start that narrows down to 1
lane and you have to single file the first turn because they where some nasty
crashes in other categories and I don’t think anyone wanted to go down. So we kept it fast and safe for this
corner always telling people to get in now or get to the back. I stuck behind some people that
couldn’t clip in so I made up ground with Brian since he likes to start in the
back and work his way up, we made our way up to middle and top 15 around lap 3
or 4 because turn 4 you could get some nice speed going up the hill on the
outside if you had a nice turn before hand with no one on there brakes or you
could hug that corner really hard and make it out with out hitting that nasty
crack-bump in the road. David and
Kenney where sitting at the front easy and tearing it up and I saw that John
Leopold made a move up the road he was brought back and dropped a little later,
another attack goes and brought back and Justin Leopold makes a move through
the start finish and maybe one guy goes with him and get dropped and Leopold
stays away for a lap and a half so I make my move on 4th turn 4 to
get at the front sit and attack at the start finish find Justin but he is
already dying so I pass him and wait because I brought a guy with me that was
already not doing well. I look
back and Justin doesn’t want to come along so I solo for 3 laps and David comes
to save me around turn 4 and I suck his wheel because no one was behind him and
we just soft pedal and David reminds me to save the energy. I love having a teammate specially when
they remind you to save it! Final lap Justin makes his move on turn 7 where its
sketchy and it works he gets a nice gap we kind of pull him back people start
there sprint once we hit the flat Justin gets 3rd David 5th
and I 6th. We did okay
just didn’t have the proper gears or something going into the corner after Justin
made that move we had to slow down all good though. Risky – gusty moves can win
you a race and Justin isn’t on TC/PC but he is a nice guy we have been racing
all year and he comes out with his brother John on training rides and Justin
does have a few more season then me I don’t know about David.
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| The Sprint with a lot of guys that are dead for the top 5 |
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