Depauw University

This weekend we had a collegiate race at depauw univeristy. The road race was a pretty cool course set around a lake. It was a little over 8 miles per lap and the A's had 6 laps to do. The strong guys of the race were of course Jake Rytlewski from Marion and Mike Kurberg from IU. Also Purdue has a really strong team this year with 8 or so solid riders. I was the only represented WMU rider there, so i had my work cut out for me. I spent the race covering every move that Jake and Mike made. This was pretty tough considering that they attacked relentlessly. I was in several moves all day but nothing materialized, the field was a little too strong. With one lap to go, a purdue, marion, IU and Illinois guy made it off the front and won the race. I was pretty trashed at this point, legs were cramped out and in general pretty tired. With 1k to go, marion opened up the pace for Jake, i was too far back to be in good position, trying to get my legs to unsieze. I started my spring at the bottom of the climb from about 40th position, i was able to give one last good push and made it to the front for an 11th place finish. Not bad for all the hard jumps and moves i made. The next day was a crappy little parking lot crit. I was still pretty sore from the previous day, i hung out and stayed in the field until about 10min to go, i pulled from the race and watched jake finish lapping the field and win in a 2 up sprint. In general a good weekend, look for more to come from Ohion next weekend.