Cedar Mountain Road Race

Um. I may be a little over trained. Either that or I shouldn't have eaten so many Cheeto's the night before a 66 mile, 3 hour road race. Either way, I sucked today. To start, I never saw a convenience store on the way to the race and I thought I'd just be able to water up in the school's bathrooms. But no one came to unlock the school so I had to make do with the liter of water I had in the car. For three hours of racing. I warmed up by riding around the area looking for a gas station where I could buy something to drink. No luck.
Race starts with about 45 guys. It's cool out, as the sun hasn't really come over the mountains yet. So i'm not worrying about water too much. I made it through one lap (11 miles) with the group fine. I was a little chicken coming through one of the corners on the descent and wasted some energy chasing, but stuck with everyone coming back into the climb on the second lap. I got gapped towards the top and combined with my crappy cornering, I was a minute back coming through the start/finish. I chased solo until I caught up to one rider from the Colavita development team. He and I rode the third lap together, staying in sight of the peloton up until the climb. We started to catch popped riders, as well as drop them. I ran out of water somewhere around here. On the last lap together, we became a group of four, until the climb when I popped, and he rode away with one of our catches. They finished at least a minute ahead of me. Ouch. The field? Even further ahead. Anyway, I was given 17th out of 29 listed racers, with 10 DNF's.
I don't know if it was the bad pre race dinner, a bad pre race breakfast, not enough water, or not enough recovery from a near ten hour week. I raced really well on Tuesday, held back on Wednesday and rode nice and easy Thurs/Fri. We'll see how I fare tomorrow night in CT. In any case, I think I still have some hill training to do!