Several years ago I did a crit during BC superweek. I'd missed the entire season before due to a serious injury and was training and racing my way back into fitness. I was probably at 80% of what I had been at prior to having a **** brown Toyoto crush my lung.

There had been a world cup track event canceled in the US so Victoria (with it's new Commonwealth games velodrome) stepped up to cover the event (even though it technical didn't qualify as a suitable venue).

So a bunch of the track guys stuck around to do this crit, Gastown and a few of the road races.

It was an 80 lap crit and a total clock puncher.

I have NO MEMORY of the first 40 laps. When I could finally look up from the rear hub I had been staring at for the last 40 laps, there were 40 more to go. I was the last guy in a long, thin line of riders. The pace was so high that there was no yo-yoing. It was full gas all the way around.

Apparently there had been some racing going on up front during that time and guys were ATTACKING from this!

That's fast.