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Comments: The women's cat 4 race consisted of a team from CycleWorks (10 girls) and then myself and two other girls. So the race was controlled by the CycleWorks team. It was very frustrating. They kept breaking on the downhills and coasting on the flats. It's like they were treating this RACE like a team training ride. Unfortunately, I didn't finish the race. :( This is my first ever dnf. I was able to stay with the pack and ride comfortably but when attacks were made, I had a hard time keeping up. It's on an attack that I lost the pack. I tried to catch them for about 4 or 5 miles but the wind was too strong. I survived for 27 out of the 42 miles. It was a good learning experience. In order to attack, I need to develop more sprinting muscles. What would you do differently?: Finish the race. Post race
Warm down: I found my husband and friends along the course and that's when I stopped. So I quit and then I followed their car back to the start/finish line- that's was another 5 miles. What limited your ability to perform faster: I don't have any sprinting muscles/fasttwich Event comments: My first road race was a good experience and even though I was very disappointed that I didn't finish and lost the pack, I'm glad I did it. I will say this, I'm in the process of talking to a guy who coaches a girl's cycle team. I could have really used teammates during this race. I'm torn because my heart is in love with triathlons, however, I had fun doing this road race. I know that if I keep training for tri then I won't be the best road racer. If I had to decide today then I'm going to join the team but put my triathlon training over bike training. Last updated: 2005-05-17 12:00 AM
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I rode around part of the course for 20 minutes and had a chocolate powerbar. I was very nervous because this was my first road race.