Keeping this short today as I need to recover for tomorrow's race. Yes, I have my feet up and ice on my neck in preparation, but my brain needs to recover too. Turns out I'm just not very smart......
Today's MFG#5 race was at Magnuson Park - an unforgiving flat power course with a lot of straight-a-ways making it a lot like a drag race. Or was that the costumes the racers had donned for Halloween? I'm easily confused....
Not a great 1st lap for me as I found myself wallowing in 8th place at one point. Didn't think it was going to be my day, but somehow managed to claw my way back through the pack and into 3rd place. Couple laps to go I was on the wheel of 2nd place gal and we had the lead gal in our sights. Maybe we'd catch her? A misplaced chain in the muddy section gave us our opportunity and we slid on past her. I pulled around into the lead and made my 1st mistake. Thinking we had another lap to go I wasn't fully cognizant of needing to go all out for a sprint finish. The other gal was and fully stomped on me leaving me for 2nd place. To be honest I don't think I could have out sprinted her anyway and she fully deserved the win. That wasn't my dumb move though. Because I sat up when I realized she was going to win I failed to observe just how close 3rd place had got to me. I was in fact oblivious until I checked the results - only 2 seconds ahead of 3rd place - now that's just not very smart! Need to rest my brain now for tomorrow........
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