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Island View Classic Crit 3/6 Part 2

March 9, 2010 · Posted in Uncategorized 
Island View Classic Crit,  Goleta   3/8
(Cat 1,2,3 race) Written by Platinum rider Mark Fennell
I’m pretty sure you cannot view the islands from Research Park, and I doubt you can even see the ocean… But you could definitely see a sea of Platinum jerseys in the P/1/2/3 race on Saturday afternoon. Now usually we’re spread over many different age groups and categories, but this was a rare opportunity for a bunch of us to race together since there weren’t any Masters or separate cat-3 races.
This wasn’t exactly anybody’s “A” race and nobody felt any real pressure, so we didn’t make any complicated plans in our pre-race meeting. Instead we decided to just keep throwing people off the front with the rest keeping control of the main group behind. All the big hitters were up at MERCO so that plan should be pretty straight forward. Our field was only 50 riders, mostly all solo guys other than multiple LaGrangians and StumpGrinders.


…and basically things went according to plan. There was almost always a move off the front and it always had at least one Platinum rider represented.

Adrian was very active as usual.

Zach and I tried our hand. (I don’t think he gets much draft from me!)

Cookie worked with CWalk in a number of moves.

Meanwhile, multiple Platinum riders always had control of the group.

Eventually Gary got clear with another rider, and soon Adrian bridged up with four more. Their lead built up to 20-25 seconds thanks to big pulls from Adrian and CWalk. In the end, the LaGrange rider uncorked a speedy sprint for the win and Gary took 2nd. Adrian dropped off and rolled in 7th after a hard day’s work, and Cookie and I rounded out the top-10.

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