Gore pass/Swanky's

This weekend kicked off with one of the few Colorado Climbing races. It is a sweet race that goes up and over Gore pass outside of Kremmling and does of few out and backs after that. All said and done, there are 7 climbs--some a couple of miles long other 12 miles long. The drive up there didn't look very promising...rain, rain, and more rain and about 40 degrees. It had just started raining when the race started so we were all soaked from the get go. The first climb wasn't bad as nobody wanted to drive the tempo in the cold weather. Once we hit the top, Coyle from VC attacked and one of the Rio guys went with him. Nobody else was interested in a chase. I attacked with Ryan Hamilton from Colavita up the second climb to try to bridge up to the leaders, we got a 2min advantage over the field after the 3rd climb and were still 2+min behind. He had enough and i was solo hoping the field wasn't chasing too hard, but i was caught at the base of the 4th climb. It was all back together minus the 2 leaders who had 4 min for the second out and back. My teammate drilled the 6th climb and demolished the 25 remaining riders to a group of 8. I ended up 11th. .

Sunday was a crit down in the Inverness business park. Probably one of the cooler crits since it's wide open and safe. It's pretty hard since there are two gradual climbs in it and its usually windy. It was pretty quick from the start with lots of attacks until my teammate Jon Garcia went with Scott Moninger and a coupld other guys. All the major teams were represented so all we had to do was watch and make sure it didn't come back. A fun race, and hopefully the form sticks around for next weekend.