Saturday, August 05, 2006

Charlotte Coliseum Cat 2,3 Crit

Today was the Charlotte Coliseum parking lot cat 2, 3 crit. It was a pretty tough course with 4 corners, and it was about 1k long. It was uphill from turn one to turn three. Then it was downhill to turn four and about 100 meters uphill to the finish line. There were about fifty starters, and the race was supposed to last fifty minutes. For the first twenty minutes I just sat in the field. Then I started to get tired, and other people were attacking so I figured it would be a good time to attack. I was off the front for about three laps with different people coming up to me and dropping back to the field, and eventually two guys got with me that stuck. We immediately got a gap of about 10-12 seconds. We were told we had 18 laps to go. The gap remained the same to the field until about five laps to go when it went up to twenty seconds. A fourth guy bridged up to our group at around this time and with two laps to go attacked. I wasn’t expecting it and hesitated, so that was it for first. During the last lap I tried to bring the guy back in vain. Then another rider attacked on the downhill, and I just followed him thinking I could pass him after the last turn. But I couldn’t come around him and rolled in for third. All in all it was a good day, but we’ll see what happens tomorrow because I am riding well, and the course is supposed to be tough.

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