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So i raced joe martin but i dont feel like explaining 3 races in depth. In short, i more or less finished the road race with the pack, like 5 seconds off but they gave me pack time. The tt was ok, i got 25th. So i was in 25th overall. I wasnt feelin it in the crit and after the first crash on the first lap i was almost gapped off, 2 crashes later i was pretty much dropped and i got pulled with like 5 minutes left. So then i ended up 35th overall. My friend brice, who i met at hells kitchen, had a good weekend and ended up 5th overall i think. Long drive home and i got home at 1 am. This past weekend was the state rr on sunday. I did jrs cause i didnt reeally wanna ride 70 miles and i wanted a decent shot at a jersey, where on such a hilly course if i did 2 laps i would proly get dropped on the second lap. Anyway Luke, John, Jan, Ben, some other mesa kid, and I were in the 17-18 jrs race. Ben and I are both cat 4's and John, Jan and Luke are cat 3's so I figured it'd still be a good race. We rode slow for the first 7 miles then we started a fairly easy paceline at like 19 mph, and then the attacks started. First Ben, then Jan, then John then Jan then Me. We dropped Ben and the other Mesa kid, and john looked to be hurting. Jan attacked up the next hill and luke and I were the only ones able to hold on. We pulled hard for like 4 miles until John finally caught back on. we rode fairly easy till the main climb, where Jan hit it hard seeing that John was hurting again. Initially luke and I sat on his wheel but i felt like i was jsut churning a huge gear and wasnt able to hangon. I thought i tried to shift down and i was in my easiest gear but i got to the top and looked down at my cassette and i saw 2 gears left? whatever. Luke almost hung on to jan but then jan hit it hard up the next climb and shelled us both. I caught luke and then he dropped me on the next climb. John eventually caught me and seeing as we were around 5 minutes down on jan and 3 on luke, john said to ride in slow and sprint at the end. I was fine wiht that cause i was pretty sure i could outsprint him, and i knew i wasnt gonna pull luke or jan in. We rode slow, so slow in fact that ben and the other mesa caught us. We rode moderatly in and sprinted, i won the sprint really easily, and took 3rd. Yesterday I had 2 10 minute intervals. I decided to ride solo, and headed out towards high ridge after warming up around the webster crit course for like 20 minutes. I rode my intervals on marshall after the downhill and before it hits 141. I was able to ride for about 6 or 7 minutes before i had to turn around quickly and go the other way. All in all one of the best training rides ive had all year. I think it was nice to ride solo and actually do my workout well and exactly like i was supposed to. Riding with austin usually works cause he has something similar and he knows what to do, but riding with keaton or mike t i always talk too much. I had 5 sprints today. I headed out and warmed up in webster again and then went to adams by the golf course leading into k-wood. I thought for some reason that i had 10 sprints and after the first 5 i was cooked. It was pretty windy and the road was bumpy. I headed home after the 5 cause i was really hurting. I came upstairs and checked my plan, turns out i was only supposed to do 5, so im all good. I have it easy for the rest of the week and then snake alley this weekend. Im riding with a girl from nerinx, Perry, tomoro so that should be fun.