Took my first win of the season yesterday in The Swamp Classic RR (also my hometown race). Race was 66 miles (6 laps of 11 miles) with a lot of bumpy chipseal along with some false flats and wind (one small hill). A few miles into the second lap got into a 5 man break. We had to kill it at the beginning to get away and one of the guys got dropped quickly. The break consisted of 4 of us until 1.5 laps to go when they neutralized us due to the p1/2 field and the 3/4 field repeatedly passing each other and the 3/4 field being on their last lap. Was quite hard on the legs but at this point we learned we had a 4 minute gap over the first chase group. After we got going again the group reduced to 3 (Darren - 3rd place, Shawn - 2nd, and I) as the 4th guy couldn't hold the pace after stopping. With about 6km to go, the break was down to Shawn and I as Darren couldn't hold the pace. I attacked at the end of the small hill with about 1.5 km to go but got shut down promptly. I knew that I was still feeling decent enough to crack out a good sprint (well for super skinny guy) so we both pretty much looked at each other and coasted in the final km and then took it to the sprint in the final 200 m.