After an early morning and hour drive to the race with Jeremy Thomson (Proactive) I was at the High school and getting my numbers for my race. Once I got myself pinned up and rolled out I found myself lined up with the other racers that I would be competing against that day.
After a nice neutral rollout the race was in full throttle with several attacks from all teams in the flat tailwind section of the course. Every couple minutes look at my speedometer and see that we were cruising at 35 mph+ in certainty sections. After lots of attacks from several different teams the pack let David Wenger (Supra Squadra) get in a solo move about halfway through the first lap before the hilly back section of the course. Once we hit the hill on the course the field was going at a steadier pace with few big hard attacks, in this time of calm riding I moved my self more towards the front knowing that the fast flat section was coming up soon. Once we hit this flat section again the field was back to full throttle and the pace was up and the speed was killer, there were a few more attacks but nothing like that of the first lap and as time went on so did the laps.
It wasn’t until with 2 laps to go on the flat section the real heavy hitters began to show their legs. The pace was way up again on this section of the road and I found myself losing a few positions from just the immense amount of speed that the pack was moving at. That is when I looked up and saw that the field was split and a large group of about 15 riders had gotten gap and where cruising away. I nervously looked around to see if anyone was going to bridge the gap and when I saw that no one was going I put in a hard jump to try to catch the leaders, I was able to get to a group of about five riders that where in-between the pack and the lead group, once I made contact with this group I could see that no one looked like they were going to try to close the last 20 seconds to the leaders. That is when I saw any chance of making the podium ride away from me in that select group of riders up the road. For the final lap I was in the second group on the road and was starting to feel the snap go from my legs after a long day of racing. With about 2k to go till the line I took a solo flyer to the finish from my group of about 15-20 riders and got caught at the line by 5 riders. I was able to get 20th place on the race
After this race I was slightly disappointed with the fact I missed the split. The race itself was really fun and I had a great time racing. Can’t wait till summer comes, that is when the real racing begins.
