yeah, right.
it was good seeing Paul M, David K, Jimmy (crash & I've flatted again) N, Matt O , Michael L & JV. We all raced Bs with Gary B "manning up" to keep racing As along with Tom K & Dr John. (did i forget anyone?)
it was for 7-8 laps pretty fast for the Bs at over 25 avg with the spin guys....we all got up there to keep the pace going.
brad, mitch and pete from spin were working on staying together and leading pete out for primes. i don't think they were trying to start breaks or win the race by doing breaks....it was more of a training secession for them was how it looked to me which is what the B group is supposed to be doing....training at speed.
what am i doing in the Bs? getting my legs back or as i like to call it racing back into shape. well that and trying to help out some of our newer guys with team tactics and try to get a bunch of them winning primes or advancing in the "points race". i'm not a "know it all", i try to pass on what john has said/done in the past. most of the folks that have been racing Bs are folks that haven't been able to put in the hours/miles that the A group racers have been able to due to family/jobs etc and just like to have some fun with a good group of people.
speaking of tactics.....I'll never have any of my guys mark someone before the As come around us again. dumb, dumb move on my part; sorry about that JV and Michael...you guys are really doing great this year and what is good for a road race or normal crit doesn't work in a training race where the group gets lapped.
I can't think of any race ever that has attacks based upon getting lapped by a faster field. There is a huge difference between slowing down/maintaining your speed and going full out when the As are passing/have passed.
it doesn't really matter; i had a good time, a few laughs and got some fast miles in.
sure the after race time wasn't much fun (until Brett, Gary, Michael, Matt O & i hit the Lizard), but people get emotional after riding hard and quite frankly i'm not going to spend a bunch of time arguing something when someone is emotional about it. the rest of the Bs saw what they saw and that's it....it may not be right but that's what we saw....not just me. so if bridgette and chris decide something i have no problem with whatever they come up with. i'm just glad they put up with all of us and keep putting on this series.
let's just ride our bikes.
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