Georgia Cup Lagrange

Last weekend was the Georgia Cup race in Lagrange Georgia. It started off with a 5.9 K prologue. When I first checked out the course I thought it would suit me well. There were a few short hills, a longer gradual climb and a fast descent. There were a total of three fast turns I think. There were also a few other turns that were at the top of hills and slow, so they didn't matter that much. When I was going up the first hill I realized I wasn't on a super day, so I just told myself to rail it as much as I could and I'd still probably do well. I ended up ninth on the stage with a time of 6'42" which was 20 seconds behind the winner. My teammate Tim Henry was 8th about one second faster than me.
That night there was a downtown crit that took place on some of the same roads as the prologue. It had six 90 degree turns and was about one k long. We did 50 laps. It went left for the first three turns then a right and two more lefts to the finish. There was also a short 50 meter climb between turns 2 and three. The Subaru team started 6 guys: Rob Gable, Tim Henry, Wes Garland, David Guttenplan, and me. It was a really good race for us because at any given point one of us was off the front. David was off the front for quite a bit with another guy at the begining of the race. Then shortly after that Tim was off the front from about 20 to go to 10 to go. As soon as Tim was caught I jumped and rolled pretty much solo from then even though I was very tired and cramping. Another guy bridged up to me, worked with me for two laps, was slowing me down, so I just jumped him. By this point my calves were cramping like no tomorrow and I was really tired, but I just tried to keep rolling with the effort with the group ranging from 8 to 20 seconds behind me. With about 1.5 laps to go the group was on my heels and swallowed me up. Tim ended up our best finisher as 6 and David was 14th I think. After I got caught I rolled back through the field like a cannonball floats in water. But I was happy with my aggressive race and maybe if I keep racing like that I can win solo some time.
The next race was the road race which was to be 3 laps on a 30 mile course, but all these guys complained about it being the last road race of the year and they shortened it to two laps. This really annoyed me and was probably a sign of things to come. Tim was sitting 8th in the omnium points at this point, so we wanted to work for him. The race was on a rolling course and there was more or less no wind. The race was very negative all day. Groups would go up the road and groups would be chased back and then nothing for a while. That is how it was all day. Then Tim and David got in a big group with about 20 miles to go that looked promising because all the teams were represented. Then Eric Murphy from Aerospace dropped out of the front group and that break was doomed from then on because Aerospace started to bring it back with about 10k to go. I was just sitting too far back and being dumb. I planned on moving up with ten k to go and the group just remained bunched up and slow until the sprint. Therefore, I couldn't really find any holes to move up and probably ended up around 15th in the race. This weekend was pretty good for the team, but we really never got anything together in the end.