There’s not much to say about the prologue at the Ventura State Race, held May 16-17, except that it had a bunch of turns, two climbs, a good descent onto the main street finish, and was only 1.7 miles. Everybody could have benefited from a race pace pre-ride but on this typically traffic-ridden course nobody had the opportunity so everybody was equalized. Then entire cat 3 field was separated by about 40 seconds and I was 4:06, 10 seconds off the leader. … [Read more...]

With clearing skies Keith Horowitz and I made a last minute decision to go down to race the Dominguez Hills criterium.  As we approached LA it started to sprinkle and by the time we were registering it was full on raining.  I sat in my car to pin my number on and was considering finding a covered business porch to set-up my trainer to warm up.  Luckily though the rain lasted about 15 minutes and by the time our races started it was clearing up and getting sunny. The four corner course … [Read more...]