Jiminy Peak @ Marilla Weekend

I was a bad then good weekend that has past. Jiminy peak was on tray for the saturday as I traveled with Todd and Jeff to the far east of Massachusetts for a great day of racing.
The course was much better than last weeks "sprinter races" of Palmer/Sturbridge. Jiminy featured a great cross wind correlated with rollers and followed by 7 miles of 2% grade with a 1.5 mile 160 meter climb to the line. A great course for myself .
I raced the stacked Junior field at 35 riders. The race started with an early move on the 1st lap that got about 30 seconds... on the 2% section all hell broke loose as a massive pile up was caused as one rider after another hit the deck witch held me up and ultimately cost me the race as many riders used that as an opportunity to launch an attack and as I tried to chase back on I my as well have been with a bunch of senior citizens as no one was willing to take any kind of pull and when they did it was at about 19 mph which will get you no where fast. So with about 10 miles to go I nailed it and no one followed as I time trialed home for an 8th on the day which is not where I had wanted to finish at all.


MARILLA REPORT
I'm writing this report mainly for MR. Mesi who predicted this opon my arrival to the parking lot of the marilla Road race on the past Sunday.
It was a great day of racing with the biggest BBC turnout ever recorded with 70+ riders in attendance. The Marilla East course was the challenge of the day as a steady cross wind was in place to greatly decimate the field. I didnt make it easy on myself as I like aways in club races go from the zero kilometer mark. One other rider followed as I drove the break for 2.5 of the 5 laps gaining a max of over 1.5 mints. when I looked back to see fellow teammate Wayne Luther and another rider bridging I sat up to wait for Wayne when he just did the same and went back to the pack...so that move was shot as the pack was charging along and was within 30 seconds now i decided to go back and "rest", which entailed to chasing down the counter attacks. At the start of lap 3 a small 4 rider group went clear which I went after and made contact without any difficulty then then like clockwork sat up and I went right past them and off the fron of that group. Which caused a couple riders to latch on to me as more rides tried to bridge to the group. We finally settled with an 8 rider group. So we drove on and away from the dwindling main field. With 2 laps to go I nailed it and brought Jim Crowle (AG Edwards) with me as we worked off the front for the better part of the lap. before a now shrunk 4 rider chase group caught us.
On the final lap an attack of mine was countered by Steve Toorongian (reddoor) as I could now see everyone was tired as no one would chase as they all looked to me to close the gap.
I tempo ed along keeping the gap at a reasonable 10 seconds trying not to expend to much energy as I needed it for the final climb. On the final climb I ripped it and no one followed and I passed the breakaway rider and soloed to the win. I came in at over 3 and a half minuts to the good of the main field.