Season kick off (or not)

So saturday was supposed to be the first race of my 2010 season. problem was that i woke up friday morning puking and then the rest of the day just lying around. This was really disappointing because i've been real motivated this spring to do well this year. As a result i'm already below my lowest weight of 2009 and have put in great couple of months of training and was really excited to see how that would translate to an actual race. Oh well. It's looking like my next race will be the Leland Kermesse which will be just a plain old suffer fest for me. I'm toying with the idea of maybe doing the Fraiser TT or seeing if i could sneak up to Madison to do one of the Great Dane crits but most likely the Kermesse would be the next race.

I have found what i think is a great industrial park for practicing cornering or a tuesday night practice crit series location. It's a newer park in carpenterville that i have been checking out the last couple of years. Like many new developments in the economical climate, construction has stalled and the problem in the past was that the paving of the roads wasn't completed. they had just layed down the first layer of pavement so you had the rougher surface with lips at the curbs. When i went over last week i found that the paving has since been completed. The industrial park is only about half built and it seems that a lot of the buildings that are built are still empty. Therefore traffic is light and most of the corners have good visibility so you can see if there are cars.

The loop is exactly 1k. Turns 1, 2, and 3 are sweeping turns with turn 4 being the only real turn. All i'm saying is that i'd love to see a tuesday night crit series here.