race win #4

(i rused this blog, sorry for any typos. I wanted to post this before i board the aircraft)

CBR Crit

With scattered dark clouds hovering above and three other races going on in southern and northern California 90 riders set out to race a 100k crit at the Dominguez hill race course.
I was so excited, I had 5 teammates. Pate, Creed, Huff, Lucas and Taylor where all in town training on the track preparing for track worlds next month in France.

So we set out to race and to give the local guys a bit of a heart attack (jokingly) if we could. Also attending the race was the Polish National team. So after seeing those guy we new that the race would be between “us” and “them”. After the quick race instruction the gun went off and the race is on. Someone attacked and I followed. Before we even got to the 3rd corner, we had a nice little gap. What made this move even sweeter was that I had 3 teammates in the group. I had the guys go to the front and just to try and keep the pass up so no one else would come across to the group.

A whole lot of things happen and it would take me 3 pages to explain how I road on to victory.

Skipping to the halfway point in the race, my group of 12 slowly grew to 20, then 25, the 30. Now my whole team is in the lead group and they decided to keep tempo and keep guys from attacking. Well I thought we would be better off if we started to attack the group split it and make it more of a selective group. First attack went…. and came back. Second attack went…and came back. Third attack went and I followed and the next thing I knew, I was off the front solo and the group set up. I put my head down and I went for it. After 2 laps of a solo effort, the “young” Thurlow Rogers bridged and we lapped the main field, which in turn, got that group of 40 guys kicked out the race. 3 laps later, local rider Carl Bodine from Helens bridged and I immediately stop working. Between Thurlow and Carl, they are stronger and can go TT mode on me. I said to myself, “this is a local race, but I still want to win, so ill take a pull every other pull”. Carl didn’t like that so he would take me off the back and attack me. He did it about 4 times and on the last time I told him “ if we get caught by the group, you wont get top 3 and ill make sure of that”. If you work you will get second. So I guess I talked some sense into him and we eventually lapped the chase group. With 3 to go Carl had Jason Bauch start the lead out while my two guys followed with me behind and Carl behind me. One to go, my guys took over and got me to the last turn in second (Carl attacked before the corner) him doing that was like giving me the race win before the line.

I passed him with ease with 100m to go. Capping my 4th win of the season.
I leave in a few minutes to Spain and ill keep you all posted on what’s going on.
Feel free to leave some encouraging comments on the blog, I could use them.

Cheers