More Bad Luck for Me

This last weekend was the first big race of the national calendar and it didn’t go so well for me, but my team rode great. For me I was riding well in the crit and was at the front of the race in the final 10 laps. But coming into the final lap a dumb ass didn’t back off and got half of his spokes riped out of his wheel and the pack yelled at him to slam on the breaks and go back but he didn’t. Instead he moved further up and cause a big crash that split the field right at the front. The good thing is I was in front of it. The bad thing is that I wasn’t far enough in front of it. In the chain reaction of guys sliding out in the turn someones bike slide under my rear wheel and pitched be to the ground at 30mph. I hit the ground pretty hard and then slamed into the bariers. It really sucked because I was getting lead out and the teamate who was leading me out got 4th. I will get my chance to prove myself in the coming weeks and all will be good.

Also big props to Josh Thorton for being in the 2 man break that only got caught on the last lap, and for picking up all the primes in the process.

After the crit on Saturday I was sore and sat out the RR on Sunday cause we had 11 guys and only 10 could ride. Since I was injured it was logical for me to sit out and heal up. So I spent the day in the feed zone helping out our new soineur(spelling ?). I did okay with feeding the team, only one bottle got swated away.  Then for the last lap I hopped in the team car to  see what I was missing. It was good for me seeing what goes on from the directors standpoint, but it would have been much better to have been in the race and not watching. While I was in the car the team went to the front with toyota united and brought back the break. In the finish Dom got caught in trafic but fought it out for 7th place.

In all the team rode  very strong this weeend and I hope we will get the next win soon