Summer time is in full swing here in Costa Rica, and the first few races of the year are already happening in Costa Rica. One of them has a big name The Clasica Palmarin, on its 15th anniversary attracted all the best riders from the country as well as a huge number of cycling fans. This race happens at the same time as the Fiestas Civicas Regionales in Palmares, witch happens to be only 20 minutes away from my house in San Ramon. The ride to the start line made for a great warm up, being that this was the first race of the season all the riders were anxious, which made for a super fast start. My legs did alright considering the high volume of miles I have done in the past 6 weeks, but not enough to challenge the eventual winner and silver medaliest at the Pan-American games Paolo Montoya. I ended up 5th overall out of 65 pro riders. Taking 4th was Marconi Duran, 3rd Enrrique Artavia, 2nd Federico Ramirez and 1st Paolo Montoya my time was 2 hours even, the course was 23 miles with 7000 feet of climbing.

I had a blast at the first race of the season and I'm looking forward to more in the upcoming months. Some of the events coming up for me are the US Cup and the Pro XCT as well as the Pan-American games to take place in Guatemala this April, more detail on that to come in

future updates.