Another Madison in the Books
A Scene From the Road
Cresent Beach, OR
Last night, Ryan and I competed in the FSA Grand Prix Madison. It was the culmination to a long day as the race started at about 11pm after 4 hours of other events had concluded. There were 13 teams in the 80 lap race, 32km, and overall the race was pretty quite with few attacks. Our strategy for the race was to stay with the top teams and sprint for the points which were every ten laps. There were about six good teams all keeping the race going, our strategy paid off and with 30 laps to go we were tied for first! At this point things started getting tough. I was feeling really bad with an upset stomach, probably the worst I have ever felt in a madison. Not really sure what caused this but at the same time I ran out of energy. So the last 30 laps was a game of me trying to hang on and Ryan keeping us as close to the front as possible. Yet again our nemesis of the season the Fuji/Salamander guys caught some luck and were able to jump in front of us in the last three sprints. Overall a very good clean race with us ending up second. Next time I will be sure to properly fuel on the day of an 11pm madison!
The series of events after racing:
Completely destroyed after the race, this feeling continued until my stomach finally came around at about 4AM!
MceeDee's, Ryan's fuel of choice at 12:30AM when the 24hr Safeway decides to close for the night!
Cresent Beach, OR
Last night, Ryan and I competed in the FSA Grand Prix Madison. It was the culmination to a long day as the race started at about 11pm after 4 hours of other events had concluded. There were 13 teams in the 80 lap race, 32km, and overall the race was pretty quite with few attacks. Our strategy for the race was to stay with the top teams and sprint for the points which were every ten laps. There were about six good teams all keeping the race going, our strategy paid off and with 30 laps to go we were tied for first! At this point things started getting tough. I was feeling really bad with an upset stomach, probably the worst I have ever felt in a madison. Not really sure what caused this but at the same time I ran out of energy. So the last 30 laps was a game of me trying to hang on and Ryan keeping us as close to the front as possible. Yet again our nemesis of the season the Fuji/Salamander guys caught some luck and were able to jump in front of us in the last three sprints. Overall a very good clean race with us ending up second. Next time I will be sure to properly fuel on the day of an 11pm madison!
The series of events after racing:
Completely destroyed after the race, this feeling continued until my stomach finally came around at about 4AM!
MceeDee's, Ryan's fuel of choice at 12:30AM when the 24hr Safeway decides to close for the night!
