My next adventure took me to Houston for the Track World Cup Qualifier on March 26-28. I stayed with a friend from high school for a few days, which gave me a chance to catch up with her and meet her family. My parents decided to come and watch this event, which proved to be a huge blessing. I was planning on doing three events: the 20km points race, 3 km pursuit, and 10km scratch race. However, at the last World Cup in Mexico, Erin Mirabella won the point’s race, so we were not supposed to be able to qualify for the points race at this event. That turned out to be false (I have decided that the federation does whatever they want). Due to the points race being closed, I decided not to race it and save my energy for the pursuit the following day.