Bristol Bristol bristol was on my mind after awaking way to early (6;00) to a plate of Spigetti and numerous PB&j sandwiches on the 2 hour speed limit cracking drive to the Bristol mountail ski resort for a 75 mile trek through HELL. Hell as I call it is a 17 mile loop that we had to complete 4 times...easyer typed than actuly done as the loop contains a 1 mile climb to start the lap then an ascent over the renound 2.5 mile Egypt road climb to finish your lap in hell off. Nah in my opinion a flat crit is more hell than Egypt rd (hurts alot less though) as I'd rather race up a hill then race on a flat road.
The race started with an easy roll out and the pace remained group ride easy until the 1st ascent of Egypt. The pace was lifted and may cracked... This would be the case for the whole day but on the 1st 2 laps many riders were able to latch back on... But on the 3rd lap all hell broke loose as I easily made the stupidest move of my cycling career as I attacked at the bace of Egypt the adventual winner and tough guy of the day Cheyne Hoag bridged to me as we climbed past the half way point I gazed back opon the pack that was only 30 yards to the rear. Being the engegy conserver that I try to be I went back to the pack figuring we would be caught anyway. WRONG! Cheyne hit the top and was flat out gone I played my cards a little bad there as I unnoingly was surrounded by guys who were more woried about making up the climbs than actuly winning the race as the chase went nowhere. Well there went a chance at the win... So my trusty teammate Jeff and I went to work on demorilizing the remaining riders in the chase groupo. Several attacks and counters later and were were 5 riders strong going down the final decent of the back side of Bristol Mountain to the finish line... coming up to the line down the hill at speeds of 48+ mph i timed it a bit wrong and ended up getting 5th on the day with Jeff slotting in right behind me in 6th.
It was overall a good day of racing and Congrats to Cheyne on a great ride.
Peace out computer geeks
Ry Nye
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