After the all seeing, bike hating mother nature laid wrath to everyone’s plans for mightiness on Sat (spoiler alert: I was totally going to win anyway), people persevered and showed mother nature a thing or two about the insanity bike racers possess come Sun.

At the Bethel CDR Gold Race – Aetna Nutmeg Spring Series race, Jake Parton (no relation) of team sherpa won the cat 5 race, Tom Evelein of CT Cycling Advancement Program won the Juniors race, Tim Willis of CRCA / KH-Pactimo p/b Century won the cat 4 race, Cassandra Maximenko of CRCA / Stans NoTubes p/b Velo Classic Cycling exacted revenge and won the women’s P/1/2/3/4 race, Chris Crowell of  Stage 1 / fusionTHINK won the masters 45+ race, Michael Markowicz of Cycling Concepts Racing Team won the 3/4 race and finally local boy Chase Goldstein of CRCA/The Weather Channel Giant Cycling Team makes good and wins the men’s P/1/2/3 race. Full results here.

Meanwhile, in a far off distant land call “Queens”, there was track racing and day 1 of the Lucarelli and Castaldi: 6 Days of Kissena series. On a velodrome. Lots of people showed up. So many that field changes had to take place and the cat 5s had to be split from the cat 4s and put into two separate groups. Jose Guzman won men’s cat 5A group while Michael Pelletier won the men’s cat 5B group. Rosael Torres Davis had a decisive victory in the women’s cat 4 group and Rozzie Patterson won the women’s 1/2/3 field. Ros Knopov took the men’s cat 4 title and finally Erin Young, who flew all the way from MN to race track bikes, won the men’s 1/2/3 race. Full(ish) results can be found here and pictures can be found here and here.

Finally, FU mother nature: