As for this weekend, I have heard some people calling this part of the season "crit season," so I'm calling this weekend my crit season. I did BikeJam on Saturday, doing the Juniors in the morning and the 3/4 a little later. The Juniors was fun, being my first time this season doing a local jrs race, but in the 3/4 I felt like I rode a little too conservatively.
Today I did my favorite crit, the Tour of Somerville. The juniors race is short at only 15 miles, but there are always good riders and it is fast. I followed a few moves in the first few laps until Justin got away in a breakaway for several laps. I followed a move across when the gap began to shrink and then countered but was brought back. With six laps to go I countered a big attack during a small lull and got away in a four person breakaway. The race was beginning to slow down, so I was able to stay away until about 2.5 laps to go. We were caught just before the third corner and by the fourth corner I had attacked again, thinking that maybe they would let me go. I was going over 30 miles an hour down the long, wide finishing avenue and a Hot Tubes rider bridged across to me and went flying by. I couldn't get on his wheel and was pretty quickly reabsorbed, so I just sat in and gave it one last burst on the last lap to lead out Justin/Andy. I pulled off at about 250 or 300 meters left and went just slow enough to finish exactly last place. Justin and Andy did great finishing 4th and 13th. Steven was 3rd to Baranoski and Semian.
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