matts cycling blog

Estabrook park cyclo

Today was the Washington Park cyclo cross race. Right next to the wonderful milwaukee river. The course dried out alot after all the flooding in there. It ended up being very tacky the kinda mud you hate. Just makes it so tiring and slow. Anyways on to the race. I got in a top 5 spot right from the gun following Tom straight to the front. The 2nd lap I got on the front and let my "mad skillz" do the work. Bunny hopping the barrairs on the backside of the course and opening a small gap. It was really early in the race, but i decided to see what happened and pushed hard to open up the gap. The gap kept getting bigger and bigger I had at least 20 seconds at one point. Jack Hirt somehow got away from the chase group and bridged up to me. He caught me and we started working together. Our gap exploded it got bigger and bigger each lap. Lap after lap dragged by finally after 14 laps they rang the bell. I tried to pull the same move again like on saturday bunny hopping the last set of barrairs, but I didn't get a gap this time and jack was right on my wheel. I knew it was to late to sit up so I just put my head down and hammered. I took the inside of the final corner forcing him to try and come around me on the outside. He came around but just a little to late. I got it by a wheel length.
Tom ended up 4th, Aaron was 7th I think? Patti took 2nd in the womens A's she was prolly still a lil tired after winning that 1100 dollar frame saturday.

posted by Matt Brandt @ 3:12 PM