Tuesday's ride was kind of a hard one. I guess there was a little crosswind today, and after a while the pace started getting faster and faster. Halfway out, the paceline started to come apart, and after a big surge the gaps started to open. Next thing I knew, I was in a little group off the front with Tim and Woody and a couple of others. Riding behind Tim is about as good as it gets -- smooth, steady, and lots of draft. The only potential problem is that he may be going so fast you can't hang on. After the turnaround, it was just Tim and me for much of the way back, with Tim taking long, long pulls and me taking short, short ones. Even so, I got a pretty good workout and arrived back home tired, hungry, and dripping with sweat.
The real news, though, is that two LAMBRA riders won their national championship road races up in Louisville. First, Debbie Milne in the 40-44 age group, and then on Monday Mat Davis. in the 30-34 group. Both wins were well-deserved, too. Naturally, I had to also check the results from the 55-59 age group, which would be mine. The top five were very familiar names: Wayne Stetina, who I raced with back at nationals in 1980 (he won, I got pulled), David LeDuc, who I've raced with at more than one other Masters Nationals, Tom Doughty, who won the Tour de Louisiane one year back in the 80s, and of course Kent Bostick, the original cycling dinosaur. Probably twenty national championships among that group, not to mention at least a couple of Olympics. Anyway, it's exciting to have such great results from riders in our own little Local Association. I'll try and compile all of the LAMBRA results once Masters Nationals ends next week. Mark Graffagnini raced today, but is listed as a DNF, so I don't know what happened there. I'm hoping it wasn't a crash.
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