Leah Halloran and John Willse both saddled up for the Races at the Lake (RATL) and Covered Bridges training series.
John raced both the Men’s Cat 4 and the Masters race at RATL, marking his first road race ever. Needless to say, he loved it. He finished in the field in the Cat 4 race, and got himself involved in the Masters race to take 7th place in a typically strong field. Nice job, John!
Leah has been bitten by the bike racing bug this year, and raced on Saturday at RATL and Sunday at the Covered Bridges race. By being patient and choosing her efforts carefully, she ended up in a breakaway of 6 riders at RATL. Leah is, shall we say, not built like a sprinter, and knows it. So, she tried to attack her break with 800 meters to go, but got caught in a blaze of glory with 100m to the line. Next time, Leah!
For anyone thinking of trying bike racing, there is one more RATL race next Saturday. Both Leah and John have fun race reports below.
Also, Brian Stern returned from Duathlon Nationals last weekend and raced a 5-miler in Chardon called the Maple Sap Run, where he finished 2nd. He said, “The course is an out and back through the hills of Chardon Ohio with a steep quarter mile to finish. I had not run this race since High School and could not remember why… until pushing my tired body up that finishing hill.”
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