How are you feeling Quentin? Anything really hurt or bruised bad beyond all the road rash? How'd your slackers kit make out? I was in the lead A pack coming up behind you when your tire blew, sounded like a gunshot. Did it roll off the rim?
I had a good race tonight. It was a fairly quick A pack, maybe slightly slower than two weeks ago, but close. Lots of slowing down, then hard accelerations, then slowing down. A couple of guys, including Emile, did way more than their share of work at the front. I just tried to stay within in the first 10 riders to avoid the elastic band effect in the corners. I even took a couple turns leading the group, and bridging gaps. My confidence is definitely increasing.
Caleb is all about positioning into the final downhill. If you are top 5 or so coming into the transition to the uphill sprint, you have a chance at the win, otherwise you are going to get stuck in the group. I started down the last downhill about 10th place, and decided it was time to start burning matches to get a better position, so I did a big pass of about 6 guys on the outside coming down the hill, and came into the start of the sprint in 3rd place. Unfortunately, the effort of getting around into position started to hurt me in the final kick up the hill, and I got passed back by 1 or 2 guys. I think I ended up 5th place.
pics are up: (check out rolands finish.....awesome
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