We all have to make decisions on some kind of reasoning.

I raced Friday afternoon. My dad was partly right, I basically got dropped on the first hill. It was fun to be in a bike race again. After getting dropped I worked with a group of girls sometimes collaborating and pacelining and sometimes trying to drop each other. Pack racing is exhilarating. I also realized that doing a couple of long slow rides does not make you a very fast cyclist.

Then Saturday rolled around. Saturday was the start of the omnium (so you had to do all three races and then got an over-all ranking) and I had to make a decision. Because of, in my opinion, bad policy on the organizers' part one of my friends couldn't race unless someone else pulled out of the Women's 1-2-3 race. So she came to the TT start and was ready to race just in case she got the opportunity. So here's how I saw the possible situations (the numbers represent happiness levels):

Current situation: L racing, K not racing
L: 78
K: 54
ave: 66

Optional situation: K racing, L not racing
L: 75
K: 97
plus points for K's friends being happier when she's happier.
ave: 86+

So I didn't race. And don't even try to accuse me of being altruistic because this is just the reality that I live in. I did get to thoroughly enjoy seeing a ton of friends in Walla Walla, riding up Tracy Rd on Saturday, running the Walla Walla College half marathon on Sunday, and the delightful hospitality of Sophia and Michael Scholar.