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My goal in this race was to make it a hard race. I decided to attack from the gun, which I did and then spend the first 3 laps out front on my own. I had a racer bridge up on lap two and help for about a lap then he fell off pace. Shortly after, the main group had made up enough ground to catch me. But the precedent was set and racers kept going off the front to make the pace hard. A few laps later, I took another dig and went off for another lap. From there, my teammates Jeff and Brady took several flyers off the front keeping the pace high.

The course was a great one with only two sharp corners and a small rise on the back of the course. We also had full use of the roads and no traffic, which is unusual for any race. The avg. speed was 26.7 mph and matched that of the 1/2/3 race which was cool. The Bike Throw Racing team brought 4 or 5 of their guys to the race and with the likes of Don and Frye, I knew which wheels I wanted to follow. With about 10 laps to go I slipped onto Frye’s wheel and just sat there.

As the front changed a bit, Frye would drift back and then move up. I was able to keep on his wheel and not give up my position. As we got down to the last 5 laps, Frye got his team to the front to keep the pace high. With 2 to go, it looked like Frye’s team would control the front right up until the last corner of the race. That is until my teammate Cobra miscalculated the laps and went for the sprint with 2 to go stringing out the group and breaking up the rhythm of Frye’s lead out train. Ben launched to chase down Bryan and a Flanders guy and Frye chased their wheels. Cobra was pretty pissed when he realized he went for the sprint 1 lap to early…

As we entered the last corner, Frye started to open up his sprint and we dragged to the line for about 300m. Someone came between Frye and I and I over shifted and my chain started to skip. I shifted again and got my traction to take second. I was pretty psyched with that after being out front and on the front the whole race.