Folsom two bridges circuit race

Elliot, Dylan and JD showed up for this really cool little circuit in downtown Folsom, which wound through the old timey part of town, where they used to put on a hilly little crit, and then proceeded to cross over lake Natoma on the main bridge through town, then hooked around ancrossed back over to the start/finish on the old trestle bridge. We need more interesting courses like this around here! It was so much more fun than your average four corner crit.
With my legs still feeling not so fresh from the SF Twilight the night before I was planning on sitting in for at least half of the race. Oh well. About fifteen minutes in to the race Tyler Dibble counter-attacked after a prime and got away with a rider from AC racing. I thought it was too early to go and since he was out there with only one other guy I wasn't too worried. A couple laps later a VOS rider bridged up to the break which was about 15 sec up the road by this point. One lap later I could sense the lack of firepower and interest in the pack and decided it was time to get to work. I sprinted out of the 180 onto the big bridge with only one other guy on my wheel. I pulled the two of us to within 20 meters of the break, before I pulled over to let him close the gap down the rest of the way. We all started working well together immediately and I was surprised when on lap later, Joel Robertson bridged up to us. I was a little worried about this, as Joel was sitting in 3rd place for the Omnium that this race was a part of, but apparently the Z-team guy who was in the lead didn't notice that third place was up the road.
The six of us worked well together and had the gap over 30 seconds, aided by Elliot and Dylan constantly sitting 2nd wheel in the field keeping the chase nice and disorganized. At about 20 minutes from the finish we started slowing down and the pack pulled us back to 14 secs. I hit it hard again out of the 180 and took a long pull which got rid of the VOS and AC guys. Another couple pulls Joel, Tyler, and I took cracked the guy I bridged up with and by the next time through the start/finish we had the gap back out to 30 seconds. The Three of us worked well together until the last lap when Tyler and I made Joel do most of the work since he was in a position to win the overall omnium. Coming into the corner with 250 meters to go I jumped hard from the back as I felt good and thought I could hold it all the way from there, unfortunately I pulled my shoe out of the pedal and had to slow down a good amout to get myself back together. I still had a good acceleration, but Tyler was able to get by me with about 100 meters to go. I started reeling him back in, but he was able to hold me off by half of a wheel at the line.
Elliot ended up rolling in for eighth after a good day of controlling the field, and I was able to finish just off the top step of the podium for a frustrating fifth time this year. Oh well. I'll get em' next time!