Well it took me a day longer than expected to get this up. Getting Alice to the Airport at 4:30 am was tough. Christina was nice and took Robin later in the day so I got on the road early. :) Landed in Colorado last night at 6:30pm to stop by a friends place and say Hi. Any how back to racing!!!
Results from the Crit can be found here - http://www.joemartinstagerace.com/Results2009/Stg04Women1-2.pdf
The Final Stage of the 32nd Joe Martin Stage Race was the Criterium!! FAST was the word of the day. Only 20 made it to the finish from the 52 starters and 8 high level pros just didn't finish, but sometimes they just lay it out there and do there job to make it so fast they can't. The Course was AWESOME, Fast and technical. Rain at the beginning set nerves on end a little. But all in all no crashes and everyone raced like a rock star. Alice and Christina made the Front group. With Christina finishing 10th. The start finish hill was a whopper and made for recovering on the back portion of the course tough, as Value Act and Tibco keep the pace high all day.
Here is some more from Cycling News - http://www.cyclingnews.com/road.php?id=road/2009/may09/joemartin09/joemartin094
Special Thanks has to go out to Scott Warren for helping put all the logistics of the race together. Scott help with lot of extra add support. THANK YOU Scott!! Anna Sanders our guest rider was super solid both as a racer and a person. I now know why... as we had the luxury of staying with Anna's parents as host housing. Tom and Barbra are awesome!! The southern style of making people welcome and feel at easy is so nice when you are on the road. We have found our home away from home when we are at Joe Martin. Anna also found out she has a home on the Veloforma squad too, if she wants it. More on that later. So all in all it was a great week of racing. We meet new people learn new things about ourselves and came away knowing why we love this sport so much.
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