friday crit, sunday race

So the friday night crit was the 2nd crit iv raced since iv been in france, it was 60 laps of a 1km circuit dead flat.Oh and it started at 8.30 pm so was pretty weird racing so late. start of the race i missed the break but kieran got into it so i just was following attacks. then it started raining and i lost all motivation and was just rolling round in the bunch making sure i didnt crash.

the race on sunday was another hot day and it was only me and 2 other team mates racing as kieran, matt and the rest of the team were off at another race. the course was real cool through heaps off small towns and roads wide enough for 1 car. it was 6 laps all up 120km and had a decent 2km hill in it. on the first lap a break went and i just sat near the front waiting for a good moment to bridge up, i attacked at the bottom of the hill and got up to the break solo pretty easily. we had 6 in the break but one guy just sat on the back not willing to pull any laps. i drove the break pretty hard and we got a decent lead and until the last lap i was just cruising waiting for a good time to make a move. but right at the start of the last lap a group of 5 bridged up to our group and 3 guys attacked straight off the front and i followed them easily and it all seemed so easy to make the winning move, but then i got a puncture and the wheel wagon was behind two groups behind so i had to wait forever to get a new wheel. got the wheel got motorpaced up to the 3rd group, attacked straight off the front, got up to the next group and tried to get a good chase together but the leaders were to far ahead by now, so a couple kms from the bottom of the hill i attacked and went solo and ended up 4th 30seconds behind the 3 guys up the road. pretty pissed as i was feeling really strong and would have had a good chance for a win.