David Gazsi, Tour of Catskills race report

Monday August 08, 2011

Tour of the Catskills, with the impossible-to-overhype Devil's Kitchen, took place this past weekend. It was harder than last year, both parcours and field, and I was hampered by having spent much of the last 3 weeks on the trainer due to a crash and some soft tissue damage mostly in my wrist. Never mind, we're bike racers, !#$@ happens... and the race goes on!

The preamble is that I've been pretty quiet this year, with many near misses... a 2nd and 3rd at Bennington (TT/GC), illness at Killington, 5th at Whiteface, 3rd at Nationals TT... I've felt like I had great fitness all year and either no race luck, no form, or both... both of which are all on me, no doubt, its just been a season of wouldacouldashoulda... unfortunately this weekend was a continuing theme, but the racing at ToC is just so damn fun, I decided to write a report despite another near miss outing.

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