In the beginning, as in today, I am at Starbucks waiting to race a crit here in Knoxville while Shawn is racing Regional in NC. My road race yesterday was the strangest race to date. We did 3 laps on back road and 2 of the laps we ran up on a horse caravan with about 60 horses. Lap 2 we got by them safe, lap 3 I was in 6th place and the 5 in front of me made it thru before the horse backed right in front of me at which time the 10 guys behind me slammed into me. Nobody got hurt, we neutralized and the back end of that horse looked ok. That along with miles of horse crap, one snake, a trailer backing into our group, a limb across the road, cars and no course marshals. In the end I was on the fastest wheel and as we where trying to come around for the sprint we had 2 cars and at the end we ran out of road and never got my heart rate up. Finished 18th overall and 6th in the 40+.The TT was fast and painful as it should be, but do not know the results.
Shawn got 4th, 3rd, and 2nd in the motos and finished 3rd overall in the main. Spoke to him on the phone all day and he was fired up. Momma said he had 2nd going into the final straight but ran out of gas. Still a good day for the boy and a huge trophy for third.
