LONG BEACH

Yes this is the same picture... no good one from the LBC

What up in the LBC... Well to recover a a bruised ego from the day before I attempted to go crush a nice and flat four corner crit. Well to make a long story short the race went very well until the end... with one lap left to go I was exactly where I wanted to be, in the front tucked behind a few wheels. Then out of nowhere this guy shoots out mouthing off to the peloton about being slackers and charged off on a break away. Well being the complete idiot that I am, I charged of on the chase. It really was one of those moments you know your making a mistake but its to late... I used a grip of energy closing the gap, while sprinters stayed on my wheel and then of course the inevitable happend... the guy pulled off with half a lap left to go and I was left out to dry in the wind on the front of the peloton... SHITTY. Well I tried to get back into a good position and I got taken on the inside by a swarm of well rested sprinters.

As we opened up for the bunch sprint any real contention was over... I finished in 9th place overall... again not bad for a field of 71... and yet again

"IF AIN'T FIRST YOU'RE LAST!!!"

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