A race from my perspective:
Right from the roll out, I missed my cleat, and found myself off the back of the group, but with a little effort, I found my way back on. The group was in pretty much single file, with a few bulges, not because of pace and high and everyone needed a draft, more because they were saving energy. This was a perfect opportunity for me to move up to the front with a little burst effort, fortunately Geordie (pro city) thought the same thing, and I was able to draft him not only to the front off the front of the group. Then I took a little jump, taking only Chuck Detheridge with me. This was good, if a 2 man break could get clear, my teammates wouldn't do any chasing and discourage the group from doing one of there own. Then I noticed Emile dart passed me, Chuck in pursuit and hopped onto Chuck's wheel. We were soon joined by Steve Bachup, after about 30 seconds of watching the other two pull me around, Josh came rolling up to make the chase a little bigger. My only thought was "hm, I don't like these odds". So as Chuck and Steve sat up a little bit to wait for Josh, the road pitched up a little bit and I took off in a bridge to Emile.
That was far and away the most pain I've put myself through lately, catching Emile, who was trying to establish his own break was fast. Fortunately by virtue of body weight, he slowed on the climb, I accelerated through and caught him half way up.
From there it got much easier. We both established a steady tempo, taking pulls where either of us were strong. From there team tactics came into play, Raph had joined the chase group and sat in, acting like an anchor, discouraging the from working too hard to tow him up. and the rest of the team was on the front of the pack, marking everything that moved, knowing that if the race didn't come together, we would take 1-2.
Off the front we worked hard to increase the gap between us and the chasers, getting time splits every lap. 40s, 57s, 1m15s, 2m, and after that it became an exercise in managing the gap. Emile wrote a good blog post about it
http://emilederosnay.com/2011/04/26/ont ... breakaway/. For those of you who want the shorter answer, a breakaway is not a time trial, you aren't racing for best time, you are trying to manage the gap to the point where you stay away to the finish, because a road race isn't for the fastest time, just to cross the line first.
All that aside, there was a great tripleshot presence out on Sunday. I noticed Peter, Steve, and Evan in the a's, and lots and lots in the b's. Let's keep it up throughout the year!
). Also to Dylan and Kevin with 2nd and 7th in the A race.