Day Five! Staying Alive!

Rain! ¡Lluvia! ¡Que lastima!

So the afternoon seemed like it would follow the course that the past four have taken: raining lightly all day and giving everyone the impression that the race would be called off only to freakishly dry out just for the races. The sort of crap that will make you go nuts. Today though the rain would not be denied and only gave enough time for a race apiece for both fields. Hopefully tomorrow will allow for a great final day and some nice weather as I don't like standing on the podium in the rain (since I am sure Candi will be giving us gold medals for our faithful coverage of this year's event...or at least some more ice cream bars). So on to the races.

The B group went on first with a slightly (ok...very) confusing 15 lap "progressive, repeating points race" (yeah figure that one out. I didn't). The laps counted up each lap till the fifth at which point I think the points reset back to one. So this seems like a bad race for those with less than average abilities with mathematics.

James tells me of a popular points race at Marymoor that put the points only on the prime numbered laps. I can't even imagine how crazy that must get. In case of a tie the winners must solve an algebra problem while riding a pursuit. Sounds more like a middle school nightmare than a race.

James is a bit hazy on this one but he thinks that Vanvalkenburg took a few good early sprints but then took her sprinters place in the back of the pack. Vanvalkenburg and Charboneau were sporting their amazing new jerseys that have delicious cupcakes on the front and their new team slogan "long hard last name" across the back (and both their names running up on arm, across the back and down the other). Abers and Murray continued their battle with each other as both teams remain on even laps and the points are important to secure a win.

Following the B's the A's took the field and went out on a Miss-and-Out fun ride. Lingwood made sure to sit on the front of the pack and avoid his previous mistakes in the "out" race series. The Gentle Lovers played the devils beautifully, putting racers down low and sending them to the infield. Lingwood and Kic sprinted in for a match with Lingwood getting the official call to come on in. Kic fell out the next lap leaving Beardsley, Hartley, and Blackwelder to race the last two laps. Blackwelder tried to take it long out of turn four with two laps to go, a bold and yet unsuccessful bid. "Ka-ching" Hartley led out with one left and managed to hold off Beardsley and take first place. By the end the rain had turned back on and the day was called done.

Some ideas for things to do with the surprise extra time off:

• Finish that novel you've been putting off. You know the one where a gutsy mustachioed bike racer keeps his terminal illness from his "unstable" brother and has a stroke or something while riding in a big race leaving his brother to finish and beat the dickheaded competition. Oh wait, that was something else.
  
  
  
  
• Watch every episode of MacGyver (I highly recommend looking at this site. It is incredible)
• Or just get some sleep.