Road Race #2

So today was my second race of the season and turned out being very different from RR1. First, I was called by our team's gen. manager and was told that this was one of the most difficult racs of the season because it consisted of a large climb. This intrigued me and got me wondering a little. I decided either to race of show up and watch the race, but after getting myself mentally prepared on Saturday, I was ready for anything on Sunday. Once I got there, I saw these girls warming up with pretty known sponsors and began to reconsider....but then as I got my stuff ready, I got my mind ready and I had made up my mind that even if I was dropped off the pack in the very first minute I would finish the race.
After the warmup, which was doing 1&1/2 laps of the course, I knew it would be tough. I got dropped in the first second of the start. I don't even think you can consider it being dropped because I never actually was part of a moving peloton, only a stationary one....but after fighting the strong gusts of wind, I finally caught up some girls, even dropped some and held on to this OBC girl. We worked hard to keep a strong pace. On our second to last lap, we were lapped by the women's peloton and we had to finished fighting our way through the men lined up for the next start.... I wasn't too happy about that because we waited in the cold for all the men to finish before we started.
But I finished and was pretty proud of it...but I think we were DQ'd because we got lapped, but we'll find up once the results are posted.
Surprisingly enough the girl who won, actually recognized me from last year. I felt pretty good about that but god knows what she remembers....
So this race totalled 49.5 km.