Last two Sundays
Down at Red trolley in the pissing rain. Jeremiah Wiscovitch (rock racing) and Petter Dawson (rock racing) broke away in the first 10 min of the 90 min crit and stayed off the front even with the hard chase by the 7 man Kelly Benefit Strategies team. Jeremiah and Peter finished 1-2 while Sterling and Justin cleaned up the field sprint giving us 1-2-3-4 in our first crit of the year. I just rolled around and finished.
Jeremiah continued his good form as we rolled into another weekend of racing at the late Roger Milliken Crit formally known a the St. Valentine's day Massacre.
This race always have a curtain buzz around it being the first real local race of th season. This crit is know for tons of crashes, high speeds and exciting finishes.
Represented today was local homiw Tony Cruz (BMC) three Toyota United guys and bunch of 5 star bitches and a few jelly belly guys. And of course cant forget the strong local teams that will always give you a run for your money.
Jeremiah, Clinger and Sterling did a outstanding job "racing" the whole day. each one of the guys road like true champion and scarified there own result for the team. Jeremiah and Clinger covered almost every single break and even going off the front a few times solo just to keep the race interested.
Late in the race, a group of 5-6 I believe got away and we only had one guy represented.
Haldane rider/staff was riding in the break just trying to hold on and once we got the right away from our director Mariano the boys rolled to the front and between Sterling, Clinger and Wisco with Justin and I sitting on, they started to bring the break back with about 8 to go. Each lap those three guys chipped off a few second until the last lap when they made the final push to catch the break and deliverd me for the win.
This was a total team effort and it was no way under the sun I would have won without them. Brock, Justin and even a Jr kid on the Jr rock squad (Freddie Cruz) helped out on the team victory.
Next is Valley of the sun.
see new photos of Roger Milliken Crit