This would be the hardest crit this season and the most technical one too. This crit is in the center square of the Sugarland shopping center. I came in to this race expecting it to be the hardest crit I've ever done and boy was I right. Well this was the first race I was going to do with the 3s of my team, meaning I was going to race with Rich and Dan both on the Pearland Racing Team. once me and Rich got there we heard that Dan had another one of his crazy plans, start hard and fast right from the gun. this meant we had to get a good warm up to be ready to hammer from the gun. As Dan warmed up on his trainer me and Rich both went into a parking garage and did circles for ten minutes. After this we strolled to the start line, however me and Rich got there a little late and was separated from Dan, not good. Well as the announcer said "go" Dan was at it before I could clip in, owe. Instantly the whole field was thinned out into a long single file line. And both me and Rich had to use both alot of strength to get to the front of the pack but once we did it was time for Pearland to put the hurt on. Basically the three of us had some rotation going waiting to get on the attacks of other riders and that is what we did for almost the whole race. However toward the ending half of the race it was the Pearlanders who started to get a little more crafty. A little too crafty. I crashed at about ten laps left in the race and shredded my skin suit, but not just any Skin suit. It was my favorite! My personal sponsor TRIALTIR USA got me this sweet Santini Skin suit, which is now shredded beyond repair. I got a little bit of road rash on my elbow but got a crater in the side of my hip. However the officials where able to get my # and give me the free lap rule, so I was able to get back onto the lead group of the pack and race as if nothing happened. First I started to get back in the rhythm of things, and with six laps to go Travis Troxtell, a San Jose guy attacked, so I started to close the gap and all I heard Dan say was "bridge it" so I did. Little did I know that the field was getting blocked by Pearland and San Jose (thank god for teammates) and my and Travis got a 10 second gap with 5 laps to go, as we where going the pack was making very little ground which was good for us. On the final lap me and the Travis held onto the break till the end of the crit. I was able to get second thanks to Rich and Dan.
Go Pearland Cycles Racing
The Jrs
Long story short,
I blocked for Blake giving him the win and I rolled in for third
The recap
This was another good day for me and a good day for the team we even did good with Tom in the 4/5s. I now have enough points to cat up to cat up to the 3s, but I'm going to wait till after the Racing Rapids Omnium in Alexandria Louisiana to do that.
