Seacoast Criterium: Race Report.

What's that called when a word is the same backwards and forwards? I can't remember but I'm pretty sure it means I've got a lucky number. Not only was it the same backwards and forwards but you could also turn it upside down to make it 606. Unfortunately it wasn't that lucky. I only got 5th.

Tonight was the Exeter Criterium. I have been waiting for over 10 years to do this race. It's the classic pre-Fitchburg evening race in Exeter, NH, which also happens to be the place I was born. It's been going on for years but when I first started racing I wasn't good enough to race it, then for a few years it was men's only, and then I never came home early enough to do it before Fitch until now. So I was very excited to race tonight, and I think I raced really well, unfortunately I didn't finish it all that well. I didn't launch any dumb attacks, I made the break, my legs felt really good, I just blew the sprint. In a break of 6 I got 5th. That's real bad. Grace Fluery won which was actually a surprise because she's not known as a sprinter, but when you can put out 500 watts for the last 300m I guess you don't really need to "sprint". It must be something the tea...