Was a pretty successful weekend for me which was really good as both races suited me really well.
PRIX DE PLAIMBOIS DU MIROIR
this race was a Morteau hosted race and was also held in the town of the president of the team so was really important for the team. the course was 7 laps of a circuit which had a 3km hill with the start finish at the top the rest was rolling. the first time up the hill the break got away and it included me, 3 other team mates and 5 other guys. we rolled around with a few attacks coming and going but my team dominated always having someone with the attacks. it wasnt until the last lap till it got interesting. about half way round the lap i got off the front with a group of 4 including one team mate and the guy who won this race last year was behind so he was chasing hard, we were about 4 km from the bottom of the hill and i attacked off my group just as they were caught by the chasers, and i got to the bottom of the hill with a about a 15second gap and managed to hold of the group for the win so was pretty stoked our team also got 2nd and 3rd.
PRIX DE VALFIN LES ST CLAUDE
this was another hilly race, it included a lap of 39km which had a 7km hill in it and then 2 laps of 22 km which had a steep 3km hill each lap. the first lap was pretty easy as i was just waiting for the final 22km laps to do anything. a group of 3 got away and built a pretty big lead but none of them were very good climbers so i knew it would eventually be caught. the first time up the steep 3km climb i was caught at the back and had to work hard to get to the front but managed to get over the top of the climb with 2 other guys and we caught the break out front just after the top of the climb. so we rolled around the rest of the lap untill we got to the hill again and the three guys from the break were droped straight away so it was down to me and 2 other guys we set a hard pace up the hill and attacked each other a bit but we stayed together over the top of the climb. it wasnt untill a flat section about 9km from the finish where i got caught out after doing a hard turn on the front when one of the guys attacked and i just didnt make it onto his wheel and the other guy jumped me to get on so i was stuck on my own. it was a pretty ameture mistake not leaving enough in the tank to cover an attack so close to the finsh. but anyway i ended up rolling in 3rd so not to bad.
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