Mens cat3 criterium, 17 or 18 riders in the field.  VeloCity, Cumberland Transit, Mellow Mushroom, BBC, Jittery Joes and a few other were represented.  Jacob and I were the only Tria riders.  The first laps rolled fast with Tim Heard and a Cumberland guy getting off the front for a lap.  This was brought back and another small attack was covered by Jacob.  As we rounded corner #2 going into #3 the field had just made the catch and was sitting up.  I jumped wide and shot through the corner and opened up a gap.  Cumberland Transit and Jason Donaldson of BBC bridged up.  Jacob and BBC controlled the field to let the gap grow.  The three of us worked well together and got over a minute by the finish.  With a lap to go I attacked into the wind between corners 2 and 3 but they were on me.  We came down the back side three wide across the road.  I heard Donaldson rub his brakes and that was the signal to hit the gas.  I went into the last corner hot and put a gap on him that he could not close.  The Cumberland rider was better at the corners but was in bad position.   I got up to 34 mph in the sprint, 26.4 mph average for 20.25 miles.

This is a great course, downtown!  The corners are like fly paper!  Thank you Mayor Langford for repaving!  I hope this race is around next year.