Well another race weekend and I came into it with some real hard training. At the training crit on Thurday night the team worked really hard. We spent much of the ride with either someone in a break off the front and/or guys sitting on the front of the ride pulling breaks back. I also got some good advice from Trey that really motivated me. At one point during the crit I was out with him and several others trying to breakaway from the field. Trey and Dean from the Alliance team both made mammoth pulls at 35+ mph and I was next in line.. We had about 50 meters on the field and the break would have stuck except I couldn't pull thru.. The pain was too much and I sat up.. Trey came up to me after the ride and told me basically if I had pulled thru we would have kept that break going. He said when you feel the pain that's when you gotta push the hardest everyone's in pain you have to remember the pain is only temporary.. Your not gonna feel it tonight when your sitting on the couch.. He's right .. When I think back to the breaks or winning moves that I see work its always after a very hard effort when everyone's tired an the spirt to chase is at its lowest...
So are you wondering how the Millport race went for the team? It was a great race for all and personally one of my finest days of racing as I placed top ten in both the 4/5 and 3/4 races...(A double). The course was fairly flat with one big ring climb in the middle. We had racers in both the 3/4 and the 4/5 and our results were very good. Some real nice pictures to look at with bunches of IH riders at the front in total domination :). Best finishes come from pushing the pace right after hard efforts!
