Goodbye Pennsylvania....

In the past few weeks I've been doing shed loads of racing but none have been interesting enough to bore you with. However, this weekend's racing has had some noticable moments of brilliantness!

Saturday 9th July - Iron Hill Criterium - West Chester - PA

This race is on the US National Crit Series calander so I would return to the 'hang on for dear life' tactics I'd previously used at Dairyland. I was quietly confident the day before as the last one of these races I did all was looking great until I crashed with two laps to go. But it wasn't to be. Spending the day surfing the 20's in the blood sugar department (not a clue why?!) meant that my hopes disappeared down the drain at an alarming rate. So quickly in fact that I barely broke into a sweat. No matter how hard I pushed on the pedals, the response was the same - nothing.

But...the best thing of all - prize money went 30 deep. I finished 26th. So for sucking BIG TIME and lasting 10 mintues in the field, I, Kate Evans, made £30! Yes...that's right 30 of your finest english pounds or 45 of the not so fine American Dollar, for failing. This is more than I've ever made in the UK. Ever.

Although pretty disheartening the race was fantastic. Held in West Chester, the course was rammed. Spectators were two deep around the entire course, so it was pretty awesome (I know it's an Americanism) to have so many people watching my epic failure!

This race was my final race in Pennslyvania. Straight afterwards I changed team-mates and headed in the direction of New York!!!!!!!