Dade City Crit

The Dade City Criterium was the day after the San Antonio Road Race. It is a fun 6 turn course with a brick section between turns 1 and 2. I felt good after my 51 mile breakaway the day before with Derek Bennett and wanted to try to win. The race was very aggressive from the gun but it just never seemed like a break would work. Finally after about 30' of racing a group of 13 formed that took a lap on the field. This group contained Phil Gaimon (Kenda), David Guttenplan (Chemstar), Ken Vida (Floridavelo), Joey Roskopf and Ty Magner (Team Type 1), myself and some other riders. The group more or less just worked together until we lapped the field with a few laps to go. There was never really a good oppertunity to attack. With three laps to go Phil launched an attack and everyone was on him like glue. With 2 to go I decided to go for it and killed myself but didn't really get a gap. I held on for seventh place. Maybe I should have waited a lap later and I would have gotten a better result. But it was a good first weekend of racing for the year.