Henk at Coldspring
Posted on 16. Mar, 2010 by admin in Uncategorized
What a rush, I almost arrived to the race late because my dad missed the Cleveland exit by 25 miles. Thankfully I was able to call James Ruberti to ask him if he could pick up my number so I could race and he did it without hesitation. Thanks James, thats what I call team effort. If it wasn’t for James I probably wouldn’t have been able to race and thanks Quentin for putting on my number for me.
When the race began, we started out slowly but when the official rang the whistle we still didn’t start until 3 miles down the road, then everybody started checking out who was going to be the first guy to attack, then after a mile someone attacked and nobody followed unitl 5 miles down the road. I was not going to chase because all I wanted to finish the race strong with the peloton or the break but not do long pulls and waite all my energy. The whole time in the race I tried to sit on Brandon Cowart’s wheel since I knew he will be one of the guys to mark.
For the first 20 miles we were at a moderate pace which was 28mi/hr, then we picked it up to 34+mi/hr with constant attacks for the rest of the race.
Benjamin constantly tried to break off with a couple of other guys and every time I saw him go off, I went to the front to mess up the rotation several times.
When we were coming near the end, I had a gut feeling telling me that Cody Foster (climber) was going to attack us so I went and sat on his wheel and when we were 200 meters from the finish line, I sprinted as I hard I could to that finish line but my legs gave up and not only did they cramp up, they started pulling and thats when a couple of guys passed me, which made me end up in 15th overall.
Just stay tuned for the Houston Grand Crit. I am gonna bring out “El Toro” from the bull pen.
