Just a beautiful day here in central Texas, blue sky's and temps in mid 60's. I did my second cat 4 race today in a field of 100 with a very strong field of the best cat 4's in the neighborhood. We were the first race of the day and the temps were still in the high 30s when we rolled off. This is great course with little time to recover the pressure was on from the start. The UT cycling team started had 5-7 guys in the bunch and were lighting off attacks what seemed like every 5 minutes. As soon as we caught one guy they would send another and another, this went on for about 40 miles. Still the pace hard but steady and I managed to stay in the top 10 for the majority of the race. On the last lap things really heated up and I put myself on the wheel of a guy named Chris Tricky. Chris is one of the better 4's out there and will soon be beating up on the 3's. At about 200 meters I jumped on another wheel that I knew belonged to a good sprinter, unfortunately he didn't have it today and I had to swing out around him and re-initiate my sprint. By the time I got spun up again I crossed the line in 8th in a bunch sprint. I'm pretty happy as everyone in front of me was under the age of 30 (I'm 45) and the top two were still in college! I know now that I can hang with the fast 4's but I think I'm going to start doing more 45 masters races. Next week is Lago Vista and I'll be in the 4's as a support rider for one of my teammates and I'll do the 45+ race on Sunday for myself. So far this season is going well, 3rd at Tour of New Braunfels and 8th at Pace Bend!

To the fellow BF'er that I talked to briefly during the race, sorry we didn't have more time are you going to be at Lago?