Track Racing

Aug, 10 2005

Scratch Race Heat

This morning, I woke up after having a weird night of sleep. I just went to sleep really agitated and any little thing was ticking me off. I mean I understand why these things were happing however I couldn’t stop it. I had been so nervous thinking about my race, it was driving me crazy.

My coach called me and let me know that even though the session starts at 9am I would not be riding until about 12:30 1pm. It was cool that I knew that but I just couldn’t relax at home. So to ease my nerves I left at 11:30 at that got me there at noon.

The Race:
My heat had Jonas Carney and he is a trip. He’s walking around the end field with a back brace on telling people “I can’t bend over” it’s all psychological games for him.
When I got to the rail for start, he goes “ so are you riding a track gear or a road gear” that’s just an indirect way to ask me, what gear I’m in.

The race was pretty slow for the most part I few guys tried getting away but it all came back to have a mass field sprint at the end of a 30 lap qualifier.
I qualified 2nd behind my training partner Chad Milliken.

The final will be a whole different story. It will be much faster, more attacks and I know for sure that Jamie Carney will have his 4 teammates leading him out.

Stay tuned