...Hello Connecticuit

After a three hour drive I arrived in Brooklyn, NY. It was 2am and I was exhausted and I had to be up super early to go to a race in Connecticuit.

Becca's boyfriend Alex had already informed us of our tactics for the race. With a slight incline 600m before the line I would attempt to 'drill' it up and over leading Becca out for the sprint. The first 45 minutes of the race went like clockwork. No one really made a break for it and, as seems to be the norm in women's races, it looked destined to be a bunch sprint.

With 1 lap to go I headed to the front. Just before the incline an attack went and I jumped on the wheel. As we hit the bottom of the incline, the girl I went with started to blow so I lauched it as planned. I just put my head down and kicked. A few moments latter I heard 'Kate'. Becca was on my wheel, but I had a problem. We were still 300m out and I was dying. I made it round the final corner first but swung off straight after. This was a mistake. Having never led anyone out before I didn't know that I'm not meant to swing off. Unfortunately, Becca ended up having to sprint the last 250m into a head wind with two other women on her wheel. Result - 3rd. Me 14th!

It transpires, however, that my attack was not in vain. The entire field was obliterated and only Becca and the two others had been able to get back onto my wheel. This guarenteed Becca a podium, prize money and upgrade points. Whoop! But I didn't realise how few people were behind me and I could have finished a lot higher up had I just kept going.

For a first attempt I think we rocked. It could have been better but we've got a few more races to finely tune the Evans Schepps lead out train!!!!