{"id":7308,"date":"2014-04-24T07:06:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T13:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=7308"},"modified":"2014-04-24T07:14:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T13:14:39","slug":"tiger-lane-crit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=7308","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Lane Crit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tiger Lane training crit series is a Springtime staple of Memphis put on by local team 901 Racing<\/a>. Historically, if you’re female and want to race, you slot in with the Cat 4 men. It’s not terrible- the course is pretty open, and the local guys (with the exception of a few that are easy to ID\/avoid) aren’t sketchy to ride with. It does make it very much just a training effort, though, because being a solo woman in a men’s race that 99% of the time ends up in a sprint doesn’t give you a chance to be competitive unless you’re good at sprinting.<\/p>\n

Side note- I’m not terrible at sprinting, but I’m not a sprinter… especially so now that I don’t really road race anymore. It’s a skill that definitely takes practice, and I have more important things to practice with my training time… Important info for the rest of my story.<\/p>\n

This year, there was enough interest following the first two of four races that the promoter added a women’s race to the front end of the schedule of race days three and four. Sandwiched between a nutso hard training week and a 150 mile gravel grinder billed as being “harder than Dirty Kanza,” I wasn’t 100% sure that it was the best Wednesday activity, but it was kinda like…<\/p>\n