Looking forward to this weekend. Two crits: Napa and Santa Cruz, both on the technical side, which should be good for me. Hoping to make up for some recent bad luck and tactical mistakes.
This photo sums up the Brisbane crit for me. I was very active early in the race, driving the pace up with a few other guys, which shredded the pack from 77 down to less than 40 in the final laps (33 finished). Used a bit too much energy really, but still had pretty good position at the end, good enough to sprint for an upgrade point. But I took the final corner slightly to the outside, looking to move up, but when the crash happened, the pileup was on the outside, so I just coasted over into the cones and checked out the guy who got the worst of it. Result: DNP.
The weekend prior, I missed the decisive move at the start of the second lap at the windy Zamora road race. This photo shows me near the front with Josh and Ryan on the climb at the end of lap 1, but I must have lost a bit of position right after. Then there was a classic windy RR move: attack at the front on the leeward side of the road, so there wasn't much room to echelon before hitting the edge of the gutter. That didn't stop us from riding through the grass in the gutter. But I was 10 back from where the gap was forming between the first group (of 8) and the second. Made it to the front of the second, wasted too much energy trying to get the 2nd group working, and got popped when fighting to get back in line. Huge training day nonetheless, and I stuck it out to put in PB 1 and 2 hour power numbers, including a break from my group in the last 3k. Ryan work hard to score 3rd and Josh top 10'd as well.
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