yup newb mistake, was counting down laps and not looking at the lap cards. What I thought was bell lap, I moved up a bunch as they sat up in the chicane, got in a great spot coming in to the last turn, jumped out of the group hard off the side and lead out the "sprint" crossing the line 4th then announcer said it's the final lap...WTF I wasn't the only one fooled by the announcers previous lap call outs.... F*CK I blew my wad and just half assed the last lap as I knew I wasn't going to recover in half a lap. But surprisingly no crashes in the 5s!!

2nd race (30+ 4/5s) was 3 hours later. And temps went from 45* to 84*. Pace was hard from the start. I found myself near the back again but hard to move up for 10min, as it was pretty strung out and everyone was holding lines and speed in the corners. My HR was at LT from go which is a bad thing and it never came down. This deep cough thing I got I can't get o2 fast enough to recover. Prim after prim kept it pretty fast, on the right hander my back end slide out a bit, thinking I had a flat slowed down and lost the wheels in the back. Put a good dig to catch up but only survived another lap when they called 3 to go, pulled into the shade and garmin said 26.4mph ave. I talked w/ another guy after the race, and he said it got narly on that right hander(only one) on the bell lap. Guy near the front took it hot and slide the front out, taking down 3 of his team mates and jammed up the ped. I guess it wasn't just me that thought it got greasy there.

I didn't even start the last race, no way would I have the mojo to survive 40mins

Back to the drawing board, and gonna see the doc again next week about this stupid chest infection I had for 2 months now. but no crashes from me, and bike is still intact. I say it was a good day and got more race jitters out of the system.

http://www.strava.com/activities/115673376

http://www.strava.com/activities/115673371

if you look at the HR data, it seems I'm outta shape

practicing my pannin w/ manual focus yashicaML 50mm @ F8 and 1/60 +1 on EV with CP filter, iso 100

A @ Ontario GP crit by jsig1, on Flickr

then see if my point in shoot panasonic can pan as well, M mode, F 8 somthing, 1/80, iso auto

J @ Ontario GP crit by jsig1, on Flickr