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GDVC Spring Crit #1, 2005, Women's Open by Faye Hartmann
What a great day for racing at research park yesterday. The women's race was dead last so you can imagine how lovely the porta potty was by that time. There were 10 women in the race including me and Gretchen. Our goal was to have fun and finish. There were 3 Nova and 3 cow girls so I thought we would just be watching them race. I started fast to take the first corner in front because I love that corner and thought everyone would take off from there, but, that didn't happen. So I just had fun racing into the corners. A break finally happened, but, stupid me didn't chase right away as I thought the rest would. When I finally realized it was 1 person from each Nova and Cow team they were way up the road and I started to chase. I pretty much died and then the ABD woman finally went for it and 3 of us were gapped off the back so I worked again with the help of Paul telling me to keep going finally caught the group. Final lap was a field sprint and I took it in easy for 6th place with Gretchen in 7th. Gretchen was awsome especially after going for a 60 mile ride before the race! Thanks to Evan and Joe and the other BDs that were there for cheering us on. I spent way too much time in front, but, I had a blast messing with the group. It was especially great to have a teammate to race with.