UCSD Triton crit, cat 3 - rolled in at the back of the pack.

Small race with 25 or so riders, and we had a good presence. We only managed a 3rd, but I feel good about my race personally. The race was very fast, at ~28mph for the 45min duration. Our small field featured more than a few seriously strong guys that attacked repeatedly; it only bunched up like two or three times briefly. I ended up with an IF of around ~1.

I took a few flyers off the front to neutralize small breaks or just take the pressure off of our guys in the pack. After one of these near the end, a seriously threatening break (without us) went up the road and the remainder of the race was just strung out, from about 7 to go on. I re-joined near the back and never really moved up as I was trying to recover and it was just lined out. A gap formed in the back of the pack before the last lap, with me and two teammates behind. I turned around and asked if they wanted a pull back up and it took everything I had just to get them back, so I rolled in behind the sprint.

Up front we had some serious presence chasing the aforementioned break down, and setting up Mason for the sprint.