The Show Goes On.

Everyone seemed a bit better today after Sunday's tragedy. The vigil Monday night went a long way to helping the community heal. I wasn't sure what to expect at PR (FKA SIR) but turnout was good and the weather was nice despite some early sprinkles.

Stangleland rolled away at the start and prompty beat us into submission. Actually, he rolled off with Andrew Martin and a team mate (I should know the guys name, he races all the time.. bad PDog bad PDog). I wanna say one of the BRI guys bridged with me, it may have been Robert (Valley). Anyway we got a good gap but then the WoW guys started working us. I saw jamie go and went after him but then started playing games with Martin... I think we both realized too late that Jamie actually was going to go for it. So we stopped screwing around and started chasing in a 2-man TT...

I think after a lap it got comical as Andrew was yelling at Jamie to wait and I was driving and Jamie was still going away from us like we were sipping Banana Daqueri's on the beach. Oh well... a bad tactical decision but I guess one that worked since he stayed out all day and won by hours.

I knew we were hosed because 2 of the 4 or 5 strongest guys were on the same team and one was upt he road. I later foudn out Richter didn't know Jamie was still gone...

I got 4th in the field sprint behind Richter, Martin and Joltin' Joe. I should have done better but as Joe noted I waited too long to launch. Actually, the much maligned WoW team did it exactly right and the lead out train was amazing, right there with BRI of 2 years ago. I stayed too long because the leadout man (who I had gotten on the wheel of) took it so close to the line I got greedy.

I'd say both Andrew and James are solid, solid riders. I hope that this means WoW will move up into a strong local team (and I mean team, not 2 strong guys and a bunch of guys in teh same jersey) for weekend races as well. They certainly rode better last night than I've ever seen and it's the first time I think you can say the entire team made their other guys better.

Good job.