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I was praying so hard today that it didn’t rain on us. We had some dark clouds hanging around the skies and that made me a bit nervous.
I got a call up to the line so that gave me a chance to start in the very front.
The race started off very fast with my teammate Bard Huff taking a flyer and staying away for 10 laps alone before another rider joined him. Those two stayed away for another 10 laps before Hinton Clark (navigators) joined the two. As the gap grew pass 25 seconds all teams came to the front and started to chase. They chased for about 30-45 minutes and the gap didn’t come down. Not until late in the race when the now 2 riders are getting tired after the third guy crashed himself out, the gap started to come down. With 10 laps to go the field is down to 24 riders and I have 4 teammates in the group. Perfect right? Well within the last 10 laps 3 of my teammates tried solo attacks and went for primes and that killed my chances for a killer lead out from my team. With two to go I’m sitting pretty and Mike Freedman takes a flyer for a???? So now it’s just Brad Huff who spent the whole race out front and myself. I yelled, “I’m on your wheel” Brad gave me the nod with one to go, so I thought we had the race won. Well Brad mental said yes, but his legs said no and I didn’t get a chance to win the race. I finished 7th. It was very disappointing to have it so close. Beside my guys going for solo attacks, there were a few other factors that added fuel to the fire and gave me a less chances of winning. I’m really upset in myself for not putting myself in a better position to win. (I mean because if I were there alone with no teammates, I would have been in the right position). We also didn’t use race radios, so there was limited communication between the riders and Voughters during the race. With radios, the situation would have been totally different because the team would have been aware of what exactly was going on.
It was a good strong race for the team and it clear that we can race our bikes against the best guys. Now we just have to build out blocks the right way.
I was praying so hard today that it didn’t rain on us. We had some dark clouds hanging around the skies and that made me a bit nervous.
I got a call up to the line so that gave me a chance to start in the very front.
The race started off very fast with my teammate Bard Huff taking a flyer and staying away for 10 laps alone before another rider joined him. Those two stayed away for another 10 laps before Hinton Clark (navigators) joined the two. As the gap grew pass 25 seconds all teams came to the front and started to chase. They chased for about 30-45 minutes and the gap didn’t come down. Not until late in the race when the now 2 riders are getting tired after the third guy crashed himself out, the gap started to come down. With 10 laps to go the field is down to 24 riders and I have 4 teammates in the group. Perfect right? Well within the last 10 laps 3 of my teammates tried solo attacks and went for primes and that killed my chances for a killer lead out from my team. With two to go I’m sitting pretty and Mike Freedman takes a flyer for a???? So now it’s just Brad Huff who spent the whole race out front and myself. I yelled, “I’m on your wheel” Brad gave me the nod with one to go, so I thought we had the race won. Well Brad mental said yes, but his legs said no and I didn’t get a chance to win the race. I finished 7th. It was very disappointing to have it so close. Beside my guys going for solo attacks, there were a few other factors that added fuel to the fire and gave me a less chances of winning. I’m really upset in myself for not putting myself in a better position to win. (I mean because if I were there alone with no teammates, I would have been in the right position). We also didn’t use race radios, so there was limited communication between the riders and Voughters during the race. With radios, the situation would have been totally different because the team would have been aware of what exactly was going on.
It was a good strong race for the team and it clear that we can race our bikes against the best guys. Now we just have to build out blocks the right way.
posted by Rahsaan Bahati @ 7:22 PM
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