I raced Kings Valley Road Race yesterday.  The team had a good day.  We raced tactically and either had a team member in every break attempt or chased down breaks without team members.  Once it became obvious the race was going to come down to an uphill bunch sprint, we rested up a bit.  In the sprint I came to the front about 100 meters too early and had to struggle to hold on, but I took 5th overall.  I’m happy with that.

This next weekend I’ve got two racing options: Eugene Roubaix Saturday or Table Rock Road Race Sunday.  I don’t plan on doing both, and Eugene is closer, but I think Table Rock might suit me better.  It’s all the way down in medford, so if I was to do that I’d go down with Pat on Saturday.

Then the following weekend is Willammette Stage Race, which I’ve always wanted to do, but in the past collegiate racing has conflicted with the dates.  The race is a road race Friday south of Eugene, a road race Saturday near Philomath, and a time trial Sunday on what turns out to be a course that includes the hill I recently did hill repeats on while in Corvallis.  The main problem currently is I haven’t found a teammate in my category that wants to race and has transportation.  Still working on that.

After that, the road race schedule slows down for a while before picking up again towards the end of may into June.  In May I plan to get into the weekly race series that takes place at Portland International Raceway, and I’m going to have to finally try out riding a velodrome considering track classes are cheap ($5 for the class and $5 for bike rental).

Then road season picks up again with some of the most important road races and biggest stage races of the season.  I hope to be a Cat 3 by that point, and depending on my employment situation at that point I may try to do a longer 4-5 day stage race such as Mt. Hood Cycling Classic or Cascade Classic.

Then after the road season comes cyclocross season, which at this point I’m severely tempted to try out.  I realized I could use most of the parts off my winter bike and swap them out onto a cheap cyclocross frame with a good set of wheels and tires and have a cross-ready bike for fairly cheap.  I’ll look into this further as fall approaches.  That’s still a long way off.