Short Track Saturday was fantastic. I got in a longer warm up than usual since I’d been sick for almost 10 days and hadn’t had the chance to open up my legs or lungs since motor pacing the previous Thursday. In the end they had the Pro Women race with the Cat 1 women. I missed my pedal at the start (again, why?!?- I’ll be practicing this a lot) and ended up in about 10^th. I was almost at the back. On the first lap I was riding behind a girl in a skirt! I fought through traffic by the end of the first lap and was racing with the other pro women by the second lap. Erica Z went off the front for then Caroline then Pua moved up and I sat on her wheel. Then she attacked and I didn’t respond quickly enough, she had gotten away, but I kept chasing! We lapped a few of the Cat 1 women, but they were really great about letting us pass. We raced 15 minutes plus one lap (approx 17 min total) I ended up in 2^nd place and earned $75!

The men’s race was heated with Jeremiah, Todd and Ryan T. They shuffled around most of the race. When they called one lap it wasn’t really loud so when they came around for the last lap Ryan T didn’t know it was the last one. Additionally they lapped someone so 4 of them rolled through at the same time and the announcers didn’t say anything about the sprint or what was happening so the men kept racing for another half lap when someone stopped them. Jeremiah won and Ryan T was very upset (understandably).