MSU/UM Weekend

Mark and I made it to the hotel first only to get dibs on the best room we ((I)Thanks IIT) had reserved, the King Suite at the Holiday Inn in Howell, MI. It actually was not half bad – the hotel did look rather new though.

I was not sure what to think or expect about the road race on Saturday which consisted of a 4.4 mile loop with a 1.2 mile section of dirt road and my field doing 13 laps. After making it through the dirt section initially I decided that it was not going to be fun repeating that multiple times with the field. I saw Scott Rosenfield (Northwestern) about to make a move 2ish miles into the race and I proceeded to follow. We made it up to a Lindsey Wilson rider then were joined by Greg Christian (MSU) — then a few others joined a little later in the race including Will Nowak, which was awesome to see after he had been out a while with his IT band.

We continued to work together for a while until a little more than two to go an attack went off on a slight kicker on the back side and I didn’t have the speed to match it anymore. I continued to do the last two laps myself, holding my own luckily…I rolled in for 6th which I was fairly happy about.

Sundays Crit was hosted by University of Michigan in an Industrial park with two 90 degree corners and two sweepers. It was fairly fast at the beginning the proceeded to slow down after the winning break rolled off the front. It did not play out very well and the sprint got a little chaotic at the end and I am not sure how I ended up but nothing notable.

PS: Go check out Bells Eccentric Cafe in Kalamazoo Michigan.