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Collegiate Nationals
By Bryan Moritz
 saturday was really hot (90+ all during the race)...they had to reroute the course because of flooding so the race ended just under 90 miles (3 laps...and each lap had a 1.5 mile stretch of gravel)...oh and that reminds me...anyone that hasn't gotten some of those vittoria tires from bruce that he got on the deal..BUY THEM!!!! seriously, i've had 2 races with gravel (probably totalling 20 miles in all), put on over 1000 miles on them and haven't had any flats at all!!!! but yea, back to the racing, or lack there of for me...after the first lap, i had drained both of my bottles, and was in the feed zone lookgin for my mom for a bottle and when i finally found her, i forgot about the racing going on, and looked up and saw the hill littered with random guys all over the place...someone up front put in an attack and blew the field apart...i spent the next 10 miles trying to catch back on (getting within less than a minute of catching back on but not having enough guys around me to help out so i was screwed)...oh and in the gravel my bottle popped off and i was without water in the heat...so i was quickly dehydrating...there was a neutral feed zone that i took 1 bottle at, but that was quickly gone and i was all cotton mouth after the 2nd lap, i was seriously debating on quitting, but i stuck with it and took another bottle, but was not thinking straight...so obviously retarded that i kept going. oh well, finished the race...took like 60th place or something lame like that...finished about 20 minutes off the winner...i road the final lap and a half with a group of about 10 guys, but we weren't drilling it because there was no reason to...oh well sunday...yea, the crit SUCKED for me...the first lap or two seriously did not get under 30 miles/hour at all...it was insane! i got dropped quickly and was done with the race around 15 minutes into it...so i just sat and watched the rest of the race...a group of 10/13 guys got off around halfway through and they stuck it till the end. the course was just under 1 mile...and they were CONSISTENTLY doing their laps in 2:05...you do the math...thats averaging right around 30 mph in a crit that is just like QC crit except with a couple SMALL hills...INSANE!!!!!! so yea, needless to say, i was pretty bummed after the weekend, but after talking with others im starting to realize who exactly these guys are...Nick Frey for example is from Des Moines and a pro...a guy from Jittery Joes...other pros...basically 75% of the field are cat 1/2 |
