after the race in DC I enjoyed a nice dinner with some friends and my cousin Bryan who had all come out in the heat to watch me race. The next day, I drove 12-13 hours from DC to Chicago where I spent the night with a friend at his dope high rise condo which was in an awesome location and had an even better view.

My next stop took me to Milwaukee to drop off my car and catch a flight back to Dallas. In Dallas I spent one busy day before going to Austin with a friend for my best froend’s wedding. I was sad to be missing the first full week of Superweek up in Wisconsin but I had an i’mportant’ role to play in the wedding as I was a Bride’s Man. yup I stood up as part of the bridal party. no dress, just a black suit. It was a beautiful wedding and a fun weekend in Austin. Congratulations to Casey and Michael Erdmann!!

That following Monday I flew up to Milwaukee on an early flight and raced a 62 mile RR that afternoon. I finished 27th just two out of the money and like 13th in the field sprint. It was a fun race though and I was in the breakaway for the middle 10 or 11 of the 27 laps.

Tuesday saw another 62 mile RR. In this race I chilled at the back most of the race and missed all the breaks. in the end though I got in pretty good position and finished 8th in the field sprint for 22nd or 23rd. I forget.

Wednesday was then the famous Lakefront RR. 90+ miles along mikwaukee’s Lake Michigan lakefront. Again I spent too much time at the back and missed every move. there ended up being a break of 12 that stayed away and then a ‘break’ / split in the pack forming a chase group of like 18-20 and a few random chasers as well. Since the money only went 25 places and over 30 guys were up the road our final 15-20 miles were pretty pedestrian and many guys dropped out. I decided to stay in just to get the easy extra miles. I wanted to practice finish line sprint positioning and tactics but didn’t want to risk going down in a crash or something stupid sprinting for like 30th so I attacked the 30 or so guys I was with about 3km or so from the finish on the long hill sweeping along the lake and held off the charging group to ‘win’ the group or ‘field sprint’ and secure 34th place. When this race finished I had completed close to 250km (155miles) of racing in under 22 hours.

Thursday’s race was back to the evening 62 mile Crits. Sadly after less than a third of the race they canceled it on account of thunder and the tornado sirens that started going off during the race. It was an odd experience to feel the temperature drop 10+ degrees and the wind change directions & pick up by 15mph in the course of a couple minutes while flying around city blocks at 30mph. It was even odder when the whole pack, almost at once, realized the sirens we were hearing for the last few blocks were actually tornado sirens.

thanks for reading,
Andrew