Mcdonald's tri state crit, 5's

Also posted the other place.

I'm tired of being a 5, so I made a long drive so I can upgrade after next weekend. For a flat, 30 minute 4 corner crit. Course was right downtown, at least 4 lanes wide everywhere, not technical at all, and had only a gentle breeze, so I figured it would come down to a field sprint. My plan for the day was to keep attacking until I went otf or otb for good, even though I didn't think I'd get anywhere.

Started and slotted in 3rd wheel or so, stayed in the top 6 wheels for the first few laps until it settled down, then threw in a speculative attack. Looked back and had a gap, so settled into tt mode to wait until I got brought back. A few laps later I see someone behind me, assume I've been caught, then look more closely to see he bridged solo. Stayed away with him for another few laps until we got caught slotted back in near the front to recover, and decided I was going to try to go again after the prime.

The prime came sooner than I expected, and I was still feeling the effects of my foray off the front, so I held off. Looked back a little while later when I was sitting 5th wheel and only saw one guy behind me. Did a bit of a double take trying to figure out how we lost that much of the field on this course. Had 3 guys from the same team in the group of 6, then 3 guys in there alone (including yours truly). Sat on as much as I could, covered when one of the teammates went and the other 2 guys didn't look like they were going to bring it back, and decided I was going to take a shot at a kilo attack.

After the lap cards came out one of the 3 guys attacked, I got into his wheel, then started to get a little worried about getting ridden off his wheel. Fortunately he died, it came back together, we rolled around until 2 to go, i tried to get to the outside going into the last corner, planning to attack and gutter people. Got caught w/ 2 guys outside of me, oops. Blew that. Jumped as hard as I could on the left side, flew through the corner, took the next corner, looked back and saw I still had a gap. Drilled it as hard as I could hurting like crazy. Made it to the line solo, so: