Saturdays race I have a hard time remembering what happened. There were a bunch of moves, nothing stuck, there were never a good mix of riders, finally a group of 9 were off, every team was represented, but none of them wanted to drive it.
Eventually Stolte and Mills got a way, team from tulsa had 3 really strong riders but they couldn't get away comfortably. Kent, was riding really good, in almost every move but this one. He ended up riding the front, for 3-4 laps, super hard, we were strung out single file. After he was done the break had gone from 40 seconds to 10 seconds, they were within reach, but no one was ready to finish the work, guess they were tired.
A fast man from Snapple jumped, made it to the 2 man move and left Stolte with Mills on his wheel. Mills won, snapple guy 2nd, and Shadd Smith won the field sprint for 3rd.
I was going ok, I was in 10th position or so coming out of the circle drive, with 100 meters to go I stopped sprinting because I new I wouldn't have been able to get by the guy in front of me, bad choice, 3-4 guys passed me at the line and I got 16th.
Sunday went better, Kent drove a break with tilford/Vinton for a lap. Then they started working together and built a huge gap. The course was backwards with 2 90d corners before the hill. So it was harder to get up the hill. With a headwind coming down the hill it was pointless to attack up it. Position was crucial going into the final 2 corners, I was about 10th going into them and only got by 1 guy by the finish line, it was a really fast finish with the line at the bottom of the hill. The promoters could have moved it 200 meters further down at least, that would have made things a little more interesting, maybe next year.
I ended up 12th with Kent getting 2nd. Good job Kent.
Gonna be a tough weekend coming up.
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