Metro Crit P123heading up to the metro criterium in Sugarland gave me some mixed emotions, the reason was that this was a fast technical parking lot crit and it started to shower. I wasn’t too worried about the rain. Wet weather usually plays out in my favor.
The race started out very fast with attacks coming out of the first turn. It was obvious that there was going to be an early break especially with all the gaps that were being opened around the wet turns. I was able to easily move up to the front of the strung out field using the other racers cautious riding to my advantage. After I got to the front of the pack I looked back and saw that I was in a small group of riders including Kevin Kremke (Bike Barn), Lawson Craddock (Hot Tubes), Alan Ting (Supra Squadra), Cody Foster (San Jose), and Russ Walker (Metro Volkswagen). In this select group of riders we kept things pretty smooth most of the way without that many attacks. Once we were 20 minutes into the race it was apparent that we were not going to get caught. As the race was going I put in a few surges in the technical section to see if anyone was getting fatigued but I was quickly brought back into the fold. On the final lap of the race things really slowed down as the cat and mouse games began. Me being the inexperienced on in the break launched the first attack to try to go with a half lap fly through the technical section. I was quickly reeled in by Kremke as we hit the last 250 meters. Kremke and Lawson lit up the sprint and I was barely able to hold there coat tails in the sprint getting my self a third place. A very good result considering who beat me. ;)
