Tuesday July 18, 2006 Cedarburg Superweek Race #7

I was a bit worried today as yesterday at un Holy Hill RR I find my self as Paul Sherwin would say “in a spot of bother”. Well the pace started fast, was fast in the middle and also fast at the finish. We started with around 50 guys and in the end there were about 20. I had decided early that I was going to be the lead wheel sucker and did a good job of it. Scott P went off the front, which was a relief because I had my excuse why I was unwilling to work. I found that the guys were racing very sensibly and though it was very hard to move up I was able to go forward and back. With about 10 laps to go I figured I would do a turn on the front which really felt good as it is great when you have the open road ahead. Towards the finish with 2 laps to go a guy on my outside got into the curb and freaked out and crashed superman style into the grass. One lap to go and I was in decent position for the final sprint. I had Ryan F on my outside of the final turn and my plan was to use him as a lead out, except he crashed. I had a gap I had to close to the next guy up the road and was pretty spent. I was able to get out of the saddle and catch several in the sprint. I ended up 11th for the day and no skin lost.