Superweek returned to skinsuit racing this morning with a criterium in Milwaukee. The course was a .7 mile circuit with an acute turn leading into a moderate climb, descending on the finishing stretch. Very similar to the Albany crit, only with less wreckage in the turns.

I got dessed in the parking lot adjoining the course and was already sweating profusely. The heat index became bearable when moving, but was pretty nasty when just standing around. Our crit was 25 miles, and while I did an ace job holding my ground near the front I didn't have enough power to hang in with the 40 mph (no joke) sprint at the end. I was going as hard as I could, but everyone around me was going 1-2 mph faster and I came in with an unimpressive 19th place finish. I'm still sitting at 13th in the series overall, but if I want to move into the top 10 I'll need to figure out a better crit strategy.

Tomorrow is another race. It took me and some other guys a couple of minutes to figure out what day of the week it was today. We finally settled on Day 6 and decided that that was specific enough. I'll be spending the night at a the house of a new acquaintance, a self-described Superweek Geek who lives in Oconomowoc.

Town names like this make me mildly concerned with the toll that this trip is taking on the predictive text dictionary on my phone, the place where I write race reports and jot down peoples' addresses. I'm looking forward to the time I can stop fumbling and stuttering anytime I need to type in the name of a city in the Midwest.