Oh so close

Crits my least favorite of all the races at stage races, but I will rant about that some other time.  Today was the crit. The course was not bad at all only 75 minutes  with one little steep hill and nice long sweeping turns.  Since we have a couple of pretty good crit racers on our team we wanted to try and get them into a break and maybe the big teams would let it go and we could get a result.  Well all of that came true except the result.  Paul jumped across to an early break that contained some big names but then it was quickly shut down.  Not too much later Phil got into a great move that contained  riders from Colivita, Successful Living, Tecos, Arenas.  Phil being a great sprinter and the reigning coliget national champ we had high hopes for him. With Bissel on front riding tempo it became clear that they were not going to pull the break back.  Then with about two and a half laps to go a Vitamin Cottage guy try to jump across and didn't even come close to making it, but in doing so drug the rest of the field with him and shut the break down.  Our hopes for a win gone.  While Phil was grinding in the break Paul, Ian, Brad and I were safely surfing the the waves at the back of the main group saving our legs for the mountainous stage that tomorrow will bring us.  110 miles with 2 cat 2 climbs,  1 cat 1 climb, and finishes with a cat 4 just for good measure.  Tomorrow will definitely separate the men form the boys.  Oh yeah not to mention that the GC lead is less that 2 seconds.   It time to kick the tires and light the fires!!!  Wish us luck.

photo of Phil in the break sitting third wheel...

Jarred