It seemed like a good idea at the time...

As you all know, Justin had won the last stage of the Tour of Ohio last week. To say that the team had a few beers afterwards to celebrate was an understatement.

It was the bottle of champagne, however that led to the idea that we should race a small criterium on the way home to Connecticut. Hahaha, we all said. Wouldn't it be funny if we pulled up and raced a local crit, we all said. Genius' all.

Well, as fate would have it, there was a small criterium in Bloomsburg, PA at 2pm on that Sunday. It was 2 miles off of I-80 and we were going that way anyhow. So we went and did the race. There were only 20 local entrants and this one guy from Rite-Aid. Clayton Burrows. Is he fast? I wasn't sure. It was the beer talking.

We started off pretty strong with 8 green guys patrolling the front at all time. The attacks and counters were constant on this flat 4 corner course. We went five for five with primes until finally Justin got away by himself. Surprise. You may have read about this scenario before. However this time, the Rite Aid and another bridged up to him. This was not good. Justin sat on the break and the team chased from behind. Will He's A Monster Nowak and BFD were at the front just killing it until the move came back. Phew.

Then, Nate jumped off with 6 laps to go and held the hard chasing field for 5 laps when Lee and BFD Dave made some last minute jumps and moves while Justin and Will set up Stylin Ben Zawacki for the sprint. Unfortunately, the beer and that EXTREMELY FAST Rite Aid guy beat him and we had to settle.

Oh well, it was still a good race and they were awesome. I guess 7 races in 8 days was a bit too much. We got back in the car and continued to drive East. More on that later.

Kyle Wolfe
Manager, TARGETRAINING Racing Teams
www.targetraining.com