Been a long while since I posted, but my fitness hasn't recovered super fast from my separated shoulder, so I haven't wanted to do a lot of traveling without having complete confidence in my racing.
Anyway, I knew a front row start would make my life immensely easier last night, so I track-standed till the follow moto came around and I full-on sprinted onto his wheel and straight to the front row. TP rolled up behind me and, Nemo was behind him. I floated in the top 10 for the first 10 laps because I knew the carnage would happen then and at the tail end of the race. Right when I slipped back they started ringing primes. I missed them all, as there were only 3(?), then I started seeing lightning.
When we had 16 laps to go the lightning was getting dangerously close. After seeing 10 laps to go, we saw 5 to go. Game on. I was on TP's wheel, but he said he was out for the finish, so I floated in the top 25. The rain started with 3 to go. People just started falling down, or sitting up. With 1 to go, I was in ideal position, top 15 and feeling fresh enough to jump with 3 turns to go. Then, going into, not in the turn, but going into the 2nd turn 6th-20th fell on the ground. So I slid on my asss for 15 feet across the street. Race over, I hopped up and rolled through to the finish.
Today's crit in the Brady District should be fun, and again, I'll get a front row start to keep my life simple for the first part of that race. Off to wash bikes, and go for a coffee cruise.
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