There's no place like home...

There's no place like home...assuming by "home" you mean...KANSAS!

We're off this weekend to Lawrence, KS for Collegiate Road Cycling Nationals. I will be doing a team time trial on Friday, a 56.4 mile road race on Saturday, and an hour long criterium on Sunday. It's going to be fast and hard...but fun!

The regular season ended on a bit of a sour note for me, but hopefully that won't continue on to Nationals. I was 4th overall (2nd in DI) going in to our Regionals races. Somehow I managed to screw that all up though. We had a team time trial, followed by a crit on Saturday. It was pretty warm and apparently I didn't drink enough water because I was extremely dehydrated by the time the crit started. I didn't last long, ended up being lapped twice, and getting third-to-last (or something close). I felt awful for the rest of the day, but focused on getting rehydrated. I ended up pulling myself together by Sunday. My teammate got in the 3 person break that ended up taking the race (Carmen got 2nd!), so I got to have fun blocking in the second group. At the end, I had no sprint, but I held on for 6th place. Not bad...considering!

So much for my personal overall ranking this season, but the team did great. OSU is 2nd in the conference this year, right behind Wisconsin Madison....and ahead of Indiana University! This is huge, as IU usually beats the crap out of everyone. Lucky for us, the Little 500 was the same weekend as Regionals and they didn't show up. :)

After this weekend, I will probably jump in a few USCF races, but this is pretty much it before we leave for SA. Hooray for bike racing!