thank god thats over with

My apologies for the late recap, here's how it all went down this past weekend. Friday night, I agree to meet with the Rigbys (race officials) about approving the feed zone area. I agree with them to meet at 6 o'clock at roan state community college (that is where race packet pick up is.) They finally show up at 6:30. They get there and I say cool lets go check it out. They then tell me they must wait on another official to get there. What? I got crap todo, at this point, I still have to go to Knoxville ad overhaul my bike. So here we are, waiting for this guy to show up. Finally, 7:30 comes and he shows up. After they talked for 15 minutes we finally get going. IT took them roughly 15 minutes to approve it. In that amount of time, we could have approved and been back before the official even got there. So I am on my way to Knoxville and it is roughly 8:30. I haven't had dinner yet, and I still have to overhaul my bike. So I get to the shop and I then begin the whole process of cleaning, putting new bearings in, etc. I get on my way home around 10:30. Knowing that I have an 80 mile road race the next morning I begin eating pasta as if I were a vacuum. I finally get in bed around 11:45.
The next morning comes, and I have more stuff to do, therefor I have to get up at 5. So I get up, put everything in the car and immediately go out to the course and begin sweeping some turns. So here I am, outside someones house at 6 in the morning sweeping gravel off the road. This took me about 45 minutes and by the time I was done, I was dripping sweat. I head to the start area and begin to get ready to race. As I'm getting ready to race, one of my co-promoters begins sending people my way. If someone asks him anything, his response was go ask Jon Crowson. He literally sent 15 people to me in the span of about 5 minutes. THANKS ALOT. Thanks for screwing my warm up. So the race finally starts. The course has a one mile climb, right after the descent of the climb, there is a short, but supper steep roller. I get over the climb fairly well, towards the front. We hit the roller and I am dead. My guess is due to my lack of sleep I could not recover. I go out the back like a brick and I pull the plug to start volunteering. Due to pouring rain, less than half the expected volunteers showed up. It was a huge pain in the butt to find wheel vehicles and lead vehicles for the second heat of races. I could not have done it without my lead and wheel vehicles for the second heat. Thanks so much to those guys! The day finally ends, and I am beat. I skip the tt and take a good nap.
The next day was the crit. I decided to announce for the race, so whenever I got up, I headed over to the crit. I get there around 10 and begin announcing. My race starts at 3:55 and I announce all the way up to that point. I begin my warm up and my legs are feeling horrible. I start the race and immediately go off the front to try and get them going. That was a FAIL, instead of warming them up, it just put my in the hurt box for the rest of the race. I get in a couple of moves, but with no avail. Thee race comes down to a sprint and luckily enough Stefan was in good enough position to sprint to 6th. I am way back in the field and I cannot move up in time. I probably ended up getting 20th or something.
After the weekend was all said and done, I have decided to not promote the road race next year. I will continue to try and get a twilight crit for next year, but thats it. I have had it with this, I don't enjoy being part of screw ups, which is what the road race was. Was some of it my fault? possibly, however the fact that half of my volunteers showed up was the cause in my opinion. I was not head of the volunteering area.
So the next race is the Chattanooga crit on Sunday. Hopefulyl my legs with come back around cause a couple of Mondays from now is the 10K classic. Possibly the biggest race of the year. A super high speed circuit race with a 45+ mph sprint. I will give another update probably on Sunday. Until then,
The Crow