Where the bulls run Wild…
We, being Katharine, Dotsie, Tina, Kristen, Andrea, Jim, Frank, Chris, and I, are in Spain right now where we have been racing the last couple days mostly up hills. Well not all of us just the six of us, being everyone but the boys. Yesterday was the beginning of our late racing Stage Race here in and around Bilbao, not pronounced Bill_bay_0 like I thought. We started off with an up hill team TT, which was kinda interesting because there is not much drafting involved… and the best part about a team TT is the drafting…
And then today was a road race where we were flying down auto routes along these awesome mountains at fast speeds to get to the downhills just in time for it to start raining… Now I like slip and slides but not on hard grounds so I was a bit scared to slip and slide. And I haven’t been on one this summer so I knew I hadn’t perfected the manuever…
So today, Katharine got the most aggressive rider (called something else, but close to that name) because she put in a super super super strong attack, not once but twice pretty much back to back. Since she was my buddy I moved up to the front to counter her and after Andrea countered, I jumped and found myself off the front with some buddies. We came to the bigger climb with about 20 seconds and then headed up to come down the screaming fast slip and slide downhill into town where Dotsie got second in the field sprint and 3rd for the day!!! Wahooo… she is speedy!!
So tomorrow we have another climbing day, but the good news is I think it is suppose to be nice out so I can start working on my biking tan line again.
We are on a tight schedule for internet time so I may or may not be able to update here in Spain where the bulls run wild, but for sure in Italy.
Katharine got a super cool award so pictures will be up for sure in Italy!! and maybe videos we have been working on if we can figure out how to get them up…
Have a good night,
:)Chrissy
ps… we did actually see bulls on the road the other day