Well when I got there, there was a long time till my race so I decided to watch my Dad's very first crit. All I can say is that he rode well for a newbie. and coming into the last turn my dad was put in the ditch. well, at-least he did his first crit and didn't get dropped. Well after this race I talked to Eric about our race. We realized that we won't be able to animate this race
as the race started I was near the front for the first couple laps till I saw James attack. After the attack I moved to the front and I started to do some pretty bad blocking. Once James was caught I did a hard counter and got a few seconds on the Field. well I was quickly caught and was back in the pack getting ready for any more counters. There where non. soon Bryon from bike sport attacked. we caught him after 3 laps. well I don't remember every thing but on the second prime I tried to go on this but I was half a wheel off >:(. well after that I decided to sit in the pack till the sprint. going into the final lap I was in a good position, but after I took my pull I pulled off to the outside. At this moment I was overtaken by the rest of the pack meat and went all the way to the mid area. at the hair pin I stared my last effort to win. as I moved up one of the bigger guys ran through the cones scaring the other racers in front of me and opening a hole. I shot through this hole as fast as I could and went from 20th back to around 12 back. I got around twelve in this race. there way no way I could have gone to the front of the pack after I pulled off.
The next race was the 5s with Tom and Paul. as I was watching this race I noticed that there was very little attacks but I noticed that Tom was 3rd wheel for almost the whole race with Paul only a few wheel lengths behind. with one lap to go Paul started his lead out for tom. With 100 meters to go for the 5s tom was in a 1 on 1 sprint with a lone-star rider that he just beat by less then a foot getting him a first place.
The next race we had two woman racers in the field. BillyeJo Sanders and Christine Callander. As the race started they where both doing well. Long story short- BillyeJo got fourth in the sprint and Christine finished in the pack.
Recap
Pearland rocked today!!! Ok... we did good in the 5s well today was an awesome race in terms of pack skills and breaking the barrier (for Alex, he did his first crit today.) well now I'm getting ready for the Houston grand and hopefully a good result there. Till tomorrow
