Sizzling Summer Series Race 1

Okay so it's been a while since I posted last but I do have lots of excuses. Anyway I managed to get to Race 1 of the Sizzling Summer Series held at Crestmead. A big thumbs up to the Logan Cycling Club for organising the series, the organisation was top notch. I raced Masters B which had a rather large field of 72. There was pluses and minuses with such a big field. The plus being the ability to sit in for the majority of the race. The minus being that some of the bike handling skills are questionable at best. As someone so succinctly pointed out during the race its probably preferable to learn to corner well before entering a massed start event.

The course is great as a crit track. Very safe, excellent surface - perhaps not the best for breakaways due to the high average speed.

The Ord Minnett team were by far and away the best organised of the teams including having earpiece radios. Unfortunately, I think the radios did them a disservice. The team was so strong that in my humble opinion if they had just kept attacking the whole race they would have been able to get a strong breakway going rather than waiting for a bunch sprint. Only my opinion of course but if they weren't going to chase then they would have got away.

Anyway as it turned out it was a bunch sprint. As I'm certainly no sprinter my job was to try and help my sprinter get to the front with a couple of laps to go and then let the rest if the team finish off. I was too busy just enjoying riding and when we got the 2 laps remaining board I was mucking around on the inside of the bunch while my srpinter was on the outside of the bunch. Given there was 72 riders I couldn't get to the outside to help. So I did the next best thing and got to the front and rode as hard as I could for as long as I could (not very hard or very long).

It ended up being a big bunch sprint and I didn't get to see the winner and had to leave straight after to get ready for work.

I miss the next 2 races due to other commitments but have entered the final race of the series.