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Yep, That's Mine!
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That's Jed's
Almost there. Headed to the Paint shop in Colorado (Spectrum Powder Works)
Yep, That's Mine!
That's Jed's
Almost there. Headed to the Paint shop in Colorado (Spectrum Powder Works)
If you’ve ever wondered what is takes to beat a Pro in a one up sprint check out the power file from Jed’s winning sprint.
After a great nights rest at the Hotel Eldridge where the race promoter placed us, we were game for our race of choice in the Saturday evening criterium. The field was stacked and included reasonably large team in TradeWind Energy/Trek, Mercy, Team Hotel San Jose with “pros” Sean Sullivan and Health Blackgrove. Team Champion Porsche was in attendance with crit specialists Frank Travieso, Yosvany Falcon, and Seth Hansely.
Considering we had a small three man squad with the addition of composite rider Bryan Fawley, we decided to employ late race tactics and not worry about the super aggressive teams at the beginning of the race. With about 25-20min left to race Bryan and I were riding up front when we realized that Jed was riding in the back of the pack (I asked him to get some rest and surf some wheels for a while), so as not to waist our sprinters legs the duty goes to me to fall back and bring him up to the front of the bike race. It was a relatively easy effort and it was back to patrolling the front.
Jed on Front pushing the pace. Photo courtesy of Craig Sparks
Two riders were off the front, so with about 5 laps to go I gave good hard pull to excite the pack into working to bring them back.
Joseph on Front putting in a dig with 5 laps to go. Photo courtesy of Tom Soeteart
The effort was to no avail and the larger teams (to our utter amazement and disbelief) did not go to the front to bring the dangling break of two back, only 10-seconds up the road. Ubber-pro Health Blackgrove took the victory.
Jed and Bryan had solid finishes coming in 7th and 8th overall respectively.
Bryan finishing 8th. Photo courtesy of Tom Soeteart
It was then on to the local pub to celebrate and give back to the local community.
Sunday presented a brutal course to the riders as we lined up for the final race of the weekend. Jed and Bryan got call ups as did all top ten finishers of the previous nights crit.