4/20/2019 Matt Addessi Races At The Lake #1 Munroe Falls, Ohio

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4/20/2019

Races At The Lake Race #1

Munroe Falls, Ohio

Criterium Bike Race

Finish Place 12 / 26

Race Recap By Matt Addessi

Criterium racing (Crits) is like something I’ve never experienced, it’s basically a drag race, and chess match at 30mph shoulder to shoulder. I wasn’t sure what to expect being my first but I knew I needed the race to be fast and strung out to play to my strengths as a TT guy. But due to really wet course and a few very tight corners no one wanted to really hammer so the group stayed bunched the entire race which meant a hectic group sprint at the end. And that’s exactly what happened. Sprinting isn’t a strength of mine yet so I went early with about 500 meters to go hoping to confuse the group for a few seconds, but as soon as I went, 3 others followed and I was swarmed at the line ending in 12th. I made good decisions to stay clean, upright, and towards the front but I think I burned to many matches and had nothing left for the sprint ending. So much fun, so hard, and I can’t wait for the next one.

3/16/2019 Michael Homula Louisville St. Patrick’s Day 5K Louisville, OH

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3/16/2019

Louisville St. Patrick’s Day 5K

Louisville, OH

Michael Homula

Finish Time:  21:20

Overall Place:  19th

Division Place:  4th

Race Recap By Michael Homula

There was a good turnout of 298 runners given the colder temps. The course was mostly flat but there were some challenging hill sections that didn’t look like much but were sneaky tough and some 10-15 mph headwinds made the course tougher than it might normally have been.

I did not have as good a day as planned thanks to coming down with a nasty flu 2 weeks ago and missing several important training runs (those tempo/lactate threshold runs are so important for 5k races).

I finished 18th overall and 4th in my age group with a time of 21:20 (20 seconds slower than my last race a month ago).

There is much work to get done in the next several weeks to get that time below 20:30.

As always, I am grateful to run as part of Ohio Team-ER and our outstanding group of sponsors.