Originally Posted by mattm

That's super hardcore man!

I drove to said crit (Oakland, Elite district champs), and didn't win. 9th, but meh, might as well be DFL in some ways.

There was a split of ~10 guys up the road for 20 mins or so of the race, and the pack didn't seem interested in chasing, with the big teams already up there.

My plan for the race was to mark the winner from last year, who wins most things locally. He wasn't in the move but had team mates up there.

So I figure I'll give it a shot and bridge up to the group, with someone from defending champ's team on my wheel. We made the bridge (me pulling with no help from him, of course), but our group was caught about a lap later... FML

Hectic last few laps; I was 'up there' but got swarmed with 1 to go and didn't make up ground.

Fun race though! Sad race season is over. I want more.