Never have I been around a group of such unheathly sounding fit people...

Well, track nationals has started and on the first day several of us raced in either the kilometer or the 500 depending on our age.

In the morning session Vic Copeland won his 500. Huge surprise since Vic has only won the kilo/500 about a million times at Masters Nationals and/or Worlds. He was hanging around during the evening session and it was great to catch up after not seeing him for seven years or so.

In the evening session, Larry won the 500 by .6 seconds in the 50-54 group. Another huge surprise... :-) On the other hand Craig and I are kilo novices and not really suited for it. Both of us did it mostly because we could and because it sounded "fun". I also had the alterior motive of trying to snag a few Best All Around (BAR) points with the hope that it would make a difference later in the week. It turns out that we both had pretty good rides (for roadies at least!) I rode a 1:13.2 and Craig was something like .1 seconds behind. That was good enough to put me into 4th where the winning time was a low 1:12. Unfortunately for Craig, the 40-44 group was FAST. Bobby Walthour won in a 1:08! That is a very fast time at Hellyer!

Afterwords, we all had "the hack", hence the blog title. Everywhere you walked in the infield it sounded like you were surrounded by a bunch of hard core smokers! I've done many a brutally hard road race or long training ride and they hurt a lot. But these short track events are a whole different level of hurt! Ouch...