a nice day out.

Burlingame 35+ race. This was raced back to back with the p1/2 field, and I couldn't decide if I should take one more seriously than the other? Must admit that getting finishes in the p1/2 races are more important to me these days. I mean, why not be a cat 1 rider? Sounds good doesn't it? 35+ races are tough and satisfying but those officials just won't give me any points for it. Most, if not all, the guys winning the 35+ races have been 1's for a long time, so they have nothing to prove.

Anyway, the race started quickly enough, but was pretty managable. I can't remember if there were some breaks early on, nothing dangerous. On the first or second prime, I went to the front with half a lap to go and drilled it hard, just to see what would happen. I drug out an AMD and Big Bosch with me, before you know it we had a gap. Should have gone harder cause we let on six other riders for an overly big 9 man break, including LeBerge. I'm learning that I don't HAVE to work for a break that isn't working for me, but the lesson wasn't finished cause that's work I did. Neither AMD rider was working much, and even Bosch wasn't pulling his normal monstrous pace. There was an unattached rider in red that was working hard, and me. Bosch also counts even at 75% power. The rest weren't doing much.

We got close to being caught near the end, with the break under 10 seconds. I hear from the sidelines though that the chase wasn't working well. I didn't know this, and continued to work hard to keep the pace high. AMD didn't really need to work since they had others back in the pack.

With 500 or 600 yards to go I tried to gap the other riders which at least shed two or three riders, but the rest were able to take advantage and pass me with 50 yards left leaving me in sixth. I should have been more patient, but that would have meant settling for second or third behind sprint man LeBerge.

Next time I'm going to attack the break hard in a situation like that. If I can't get away, I'll sit on and let it get caught and try to reshuffle so as to loose the Berge, or at least make them work. I WILL figure this stuff out.

More on the p1/2 later.