Tuolumne Crit
Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007
I owes you all a report.
Simple 4 corner course that kinda bowled on each end. Coupled with some wind made it for an easy course to make moves on. Small field, in the 20's and the usual double race masters sprinters. Safeway had a few and a sprinter, Chris Black was there, and some EMC guys. For the youngins we had another 4 Lombardi's, Todd and Andres from Delta, 3 Herbivores (organic athlete) and Kevin "Age is only a number" Klein. I rode out there from Sonora in the morning and did a bit more climbing on top of that so the legs were nice and warm. With the small field I just wanted to dump the masters sprinters quick and then ride it out with a small selection. This worked perfectly except for the 3 Lombardi's that made it with us and both Delta guys. The group had all the players but the masters and with the 3 Lombardi's I knew it would be a long 45 laps. Looked like we had a non friendly negative racing pack and started into it right away. From there we just attacked and pulled back and sat up and bridged but never worked well together, I was happy with that. With about 11 to go I started looking for the perfect time, everyone was starting to hesitate too much in frustration, and Lombardi kept pulled back their other team mates solo moves. Todd from Delta did a few 4 laps alone moves and could really make them stick so I knew that was the way to go.
Sure enough with 7 to go Lombardi was watching Andres, Kevin was watching Lombardi, Todd was just came back, the EMC and Vegan guys were cooked and I happened to be on the back. I almost slowed with the group when I changed my mind and just kept going around. They happened to have really REALLY slowed playing with each other and then they played some more when flipping the coin for who would chase. Instant quarter lap that I hammered into half really quick, I guess the officials knew I would be pulling that off at sometime because they saved two primes for me, such nice guys. I caught the actual pack with about two to go but had to ride through them and then pulled them to their sprint, still gave it a lil go with Safeway but he got me when I had to raise my arms across the line for the real win.
Fun times....
Jesse or Andy
Simple 4 corner course that kinda bowled on each end. Coupled with some wind made it for an easy course to make moves on. Small field, in the 20's and the usual double race masters sprinters. Safeway had a few and a sprinter, Chris Black was there, and some EMC guys. For the youngins we had another 4 Lombardi's, Todd and Andres from Delta, 3 Herbivores (organic athlete) and Kevin "Age is only a number" Klein. I rode out there from Sonora in the morning and did a bit more climbing on top of that so the legs were nice and warm. With the small field I just wanted to dump the masters sprinters quick and then ride it out with a small selection. This worked perfectly except for the 3 Lombardi's that made it with us and both Delta guys. The group had all the players but the masters and with the 3 Lombardi's I knew it would be a long 45 laps. Looked like we had a non friendly negative racing pack and started into it right away. From there we just attacked and pulled back and sat up and bridged but never worked well together, I was happy with that. With about 11 to go I started looking for the perfect time, everyone was starting to hesitate too much in frustration, and Lombardi kept pulled back their other team mates solo moves. Todd from Delta did a few 4 laps alone moves and could really make them stick so I knew that was the way to go.
Sure enough with 7 to go Lombardi was watching Andres, Kevin was watching Lombardi, Todd was just came back, the EMC and Vegan guys were cooked and I happened to be on the back. I almost slowed with the group when I changed my mind and just kept going around. They happened to have really REALLY slowed playing with each other and then they played some more when flipping the coin for who would chase. Instant quarter lap that I hammered into half really quick, I guess the officials knew I would be pulling that off at sometime because they saved two primes for me, such nice guys. I caught the actual pack with about two to go but had to ride through them and then pulled them to their sprint, still gave it a lil go with Safeway but he got me when I had to raise my arms across the line for the real win.
Fun times....
Jesse or Andy
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