Fitchburg, day 3—"Uphill? Again??"
Stage 3—road race
We woke up this morning (early this morning) to discover we’d become famous overnight. Thanks to the observant eye of an official, we were warned on the official race communique and we are now in competition with Team Rona for worst number placement. While we are understandably excited to be in such exalted company, we hope we have redeemed ourselves through some remedial number pinning lessons and excessive questioning of other officials.
In other news, Ellen won the road race. She also ripped the legs off of everyone else there. It hurt a lot. But since it’s late and we’re racing at 9:15am tomorrow morning (which means yet another 6am wakeup call), let’s go right to the quick replay action.
This was Emma and Andrea's day. The two of them stuck with the lead group through all the laps until things started really breaking up on the third lap. They took 16th & 19th, and moved up to 15 & 16 on the GC. My climbing legs could use some more work—I took 26th and moved down to 20th on the GC. Courtney and Eve rocked, working together and both staying in the top 40 of the GC. We’re all exhausted but looking forward to the criterium—we’ve made it!
The overall in 25 words or less:
1 Ellen (surprise!)
15 Emma -4:49
16 Andrea -5:15
20 Liz -7:23
37 Eve -19:20
39 Courney -20:07
45 racers remain in the race, as two more riders DNF'd (did not finish) today.
We woke up this morning (early this morning) to discover we’d become famous overnight. Thanks to the observant eye of an official, we were warned on the official race communique and we are now in competition with Team Rona for worst number placement. While we are understandably excited to be in such exalted company, we hope we have redeemed ourselves through some remedial number pinning lessons and excessive questioning of other officials.
In other news, Ellen won the road race. She also ripped the legs off of everyone else there. It hurt a lot. But since it’s late and we’re racing at 9:15am tomorrow morning (which means yet another 6am wakeup call), let’s go right to the quick replay action.
This was Emma and Andrea's day. The two of them stuck with the lead group through all the laps until things started really breaking up on the third lap. They took 16th & 19th, and moved up to 15 & 16 on the GC. My climbing legs could use some more work—I took 26th and moved down to 20th on the GC. Courtney and Eve rocked, working together and both staying in the top 40 of the GC. We’re all exhausted but looking forward to the criterium—we’ve made it!
The overall in 25 words or less:
1 Ellen (surprise!)
15 Emma -4:49
16 Andrea -5:15
20 Liz -7:23
37 Eve -19:20
39 Courney -20:07
45 racers remain in the race, as two more riders DNF'd (did not finish) today.
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