Here is her report from Panoche Valley Road Race (Junior State Championship)
Panoche Valley Road Race looked to be long and HOT as only one other 17-18
junior woman showed up.
We were just about to leave with the woman's 3-4 field when at the last minute someone remembered that it's a championship race and we had to ride on our own, yuck! The women's 3-4 took off and we left about 5 minutes later at a steady pace. After a couple miles I realized
that my competition was mashing with everything but we had a long way to go
and I felt great.
I decided to spin it up and attack and when I finally turned around she was out of site so I set up in TT position and found a good tempo (Thanks Johnny and Ron!). Shortly after the turn-a-round the women's 3-/4 peloton came into view and I decided to use them as my rabbit.
I was still feeling like I could go forever and was not able (due to rules)
to catch on to the 3/4's so I held my tempo and passed them and kept on
going until they too were out of site.
I was able to hold them off for fourteen miles, even passing a few men and junior boys until just before the final hill a wolf pack of four cat 3's women working together reeled me in
and finally passed me. Man I wish I could have jumped in, I know I could
have out sprinted them they looked so tired.
The wolf pack finished about five minutes before me and the remaining peloton about 8-10 minutes after.
The other junior woman I was racing with crossed the line 45 minutes later.
I'm proud to bring the junior woman's 17-18 CA/NV States Road Race
championship home for my team and will do my best to qualify for worlds
coming up in a couple of weeks.
Thank you ALL for your support as I could never do it without you. Big props to Ron, Johnny, Joseph, Bob and my Dad too!
As I'm gearing up for the World's qualifier, World's (hopefully), Olympics (long shot at one opening) and Nationals I could really use training partners that could help to push my pace and tell me what I'm doing wrong and right.
Jasmin
CONGRATULATIONS Jasmin, we are all very proud and hope to see you take the sport by storm!
Ron
