First race of the season for the five of us. Carrie and I headed to Indy and met up with our teamies to finish the trip to California. Kentucky. Just south of Cincinnati. Today’s race was 40+ miles of the hilliest “flat” course I’ve seen in a while.

The five of us went off with a men’s field where Bri and Katie mixed it up with some attacks. Fun stuff. Carrie took a pedal or skewer or some phantom object to her wheel less than 10 miles into the race…enough to bend a few spokes and wank her wheel. Not enough to crash, not enough to blow it out, but enough that 20 guys made sure to point out her wheel might be out of true. She was a trooper and rode nearly 40 miles with her brake rubbing in a spot the whole time. The term “trooper” somehow seems an understatement…

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With 4-5 miles to go, Bri was off the front with a few strong guys and it looked good to stick. But not enough cooperation in that group let the field catch them with half mile to go. Still a strong finish for everyone and we’re excited for tomorrow’s “hilly” course, seeing as how today’s was so flat (not).

Giddy up!

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