Day One Wrap-up

Great weather and competition were on tap today! The circuit race at the Longsjo Classic is always a tough day of racing. The race is 3.1 miles long with a double kicker hill each lap. This is a super fast course overall and if your not paying attention, you'll find yourself quickly dropped, even on the downhill sections.

My goal today was to stay at the front of the peleton and motor hard up the hill each lap, this is always the safest place to be and with the fast downhill section turning at 90 degrees to the right as you go straight into the hill at about 32mph, you want to be up front. The hill would prove challenging with every couple of laps being a sprint for the Green Jersey.

The race unfolded as typical with many attacks, counter attacks, and bridging attempts. I took a shot at attacking the field with 3 to go. I got a couple is seconds but I would quickly be shut down. With 2 to go, Johny Bold from Corner Cycles and Max from Target Racing were able to gap the field by a couple of seconds and hold it to the finish. I put everything into staying at the front coming into the last corner, this proved to be a good move. We charged up the hill hard, stayed in the big ring and powered with everything I had, I would secure 8th overall and get a few seconds on those behind.

Time to rest and recover for tomorrows race.