Speedweek Wrap-up

We won 6 out of 8 races! yay! This was a very hard week because of the driving transfers from race to race all over the Southeast. The races were all evening races which meant that we would finish at night and then have to drive to the next city, usually arriving past midnight. The sleepers on the team (and there are many this year - double yay!) were having a separate competition for most amount of hours of sleep squeezed in before having to get up and do it again. Tina wins the gold medal, followed closely in second by Nikki and I believe Bronze is a toss-up between Tiff and Iona. Shontell is off the back in the sleeping competition as she only requires about 5-6hours!

So, the gist of the race series was that we had Tina in the overall competition and we wanted to keep it that way, so we decided after Walterboro that we would prefer to keep the field together most days. It was just much simpler than having to figure out if the composition of a break would be good for us or not. Not that we mind breaks, those are fun, and we were always represented in them, but within this series there were all sorts of mini-tallies going on: most laps led, team GC, individual GC, primes every lap, best under 25 rider - seriously, it was getting a little complex figuring and calculating in the blink of an eye if a break composition was good.

Cheerwine and Aarons seemed intent on doing the opposite and forcing a break, so we had our work cut out for us to cover those moves and neutralize them, then get up there for the lead out for Tina! But, happy to say, most of the time we managed it and we are tired but happy.

So, next up for us: Mt Hood, and Joe Martin.
Mt. Hood roster: Iona, Tina, Dotsie, Tiffany, Andrea, Kristin
Joa Martin roster: Nikki, McKenzie, Sam

Tina and Dotsie have been selected for the US National Team for Continentals in Uruguay this week, and Iona is also going but will be representing Jamaica.

Pictures to follow....we have many!

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