2nd's!

Saturday I went racing and the race was held in Menomonee Park, Menomonee Falls. This is more like a circuit course than a criterium. It was a bit cool only getting up into the mid 50's and the cool wind coming out of the north. I went very early to watch some other fellow team mates race. Team Extreme had racers in Cat. 4, M4/5, M3/4, Cat. 3 that I know of. I had a lot of fun hanging around and watching everyone!
On to my race. I had some team mates that were willing to help me out (Brian,Jeff, & Travis). That being said, I was really relaxed and didn't get to excited if someone tried to go off the front. The race was relatively uneventful from my perspective at least. It had parts where it was fast, but not crazy fast that I ever felt like my heart was going to explode. Then the times that it was going slow it was really going SLOW. Travis chased down a break easily and Brian chased down 2 or 3 breaks.
At one point I was talking to Travis asking him if he wanted to do a tandem attack. He was all for it, but this didn't happen because of the make up of the rest of the race. Ok, 3 laps to go, pretty slow, 2 laps to go Brian get on the front and pulls for the entire lap, 1 lap to Jeff gets on the and pulls for 3/4 lap. Then people started going through the "S" curves with the little rollers. I went with and then on the final roller I drilled it and went into the last corner first and I know it is a long way to the finish. I kept going as hard as I could, and then past just before the line. 2nd place, I am happy very happy with that. I was marked by the guy that past me, but oh well, that is racing. Again, I would like to thank my team mates for their hard efforts in the race. It HELPS!
Sunday, Tammy and I went back to Madison for the GDVC #2 race. The weather basically the same as Saturday except for the wind. The wind was much stronger making it feel very cold if you were just sitting around. We were early and were able to catch the end of the Cat. 4 race. I met most of the Osborne family and looking foreword to seeing them more often.
I have no team mates helping today, so I know I need to be aggressive and smart. It is hard to do both along with managing your matches. This race was much harder than Saturday's race, with attacks and then more attacks. Finally a small break was out there, but it was eventually brought back. I put in plenty of hard efforts, but managed my matches well. I was on the front at 2 laps to go and knew this is not where I would like to be. I rode on the front very slow, but ready to go if someone was going to launch. It did then pick up a little, 1 lap to go, around corner 1 into the head wind, pace to really fast at all. Around corner 2 up the roller through the curve nothing to crazy so I start moving up and finding a opening. Over the crest started sprinting into the last corner way ahead of everyone. Again, a long ways to the finish. Now, what not to DO! I looked back and so I thought I had this huge gap and I started celebrating early hand off the bars and everything and then I was passed! 2nd place again, I wasn't gassed I still had more and I should have easily won the race. That is what I get for being cocky I guess. Not to mention the officials didn't like it either and they made sure to let me know. I am glad that they didn't DQ me. Time to move on!