PRIX DE COLLIGNY and prix de Velesme Essart Challenge Credit Mutuel N°8

PRIX DE COLLIGNY
first race of the weekend and was real hard and i didnt have the legs for it. the race was around a circuit with 2 decent hills in it and being a cat 1 race with heaps of good riders the pace was always on and i was always having to go into the red zone following attacks and staying near the front. there were always groups getting away and a couple of times i would make them but they always got pulled back or most of the bunch would bridge up in small groups so there was never a time where you could just sit in the bunch and chill and that really took its toll on me as on the last lap about 7km from the finish i cramped up real bad and could barely pedal which was really odd as i havnt hardly had cramp all season so i dont know why i would be getting it right at the end of the season. so really annoyed as felt i hadnt really run out of gas. kieran ended up 7th in the sprint at the end.

prix de Velesme Essart Challenge Credit Mutuel N°8
Sundays race i wasnt really looking forward to as my legs were real cooked from the racing on saturday, but the race was part of the credit mutuel series which im in 2nd for the cat 2 riders so i needed to move up. The race was a bit different to normal as cat 1,2 and 3 all raced together, but the cat 3 riders goin off first then cat2 3minutes after then cat1 1minute 30 after. so this made for a bit of a confusing race, i started with the cat2 riders and we had a pretty good tempo for most of the first lap as kieran sat on the front but when no one else wanted to work everyone just attacked each other until keiran and a few other guys got up the road. on the 2nd lap my group was caught by cat1 and that started more attacks and i was feeling shit and just sitting at the back so i missed them all, so i was rolling round with a smallish group with everyone just looking at each other, until finaly everyone started working together and eventually we pulled in the front group which i think had caught the cat 3 riders but was hard to tell. then more groups got off the front and i had 2 team mates up there so with 2 laps to go i was starting to feel a bit better so i had a go at trying to bridge to the front i managed to get away from the bunch solo and i caught a guy just up the road a bit and another small group bridged to us.
We ended up catching the front group in the last km which was slightly up hill and i ended up midway in the group at 12th. Also luckily the guy leading the cat 2 in the series was in the group behind i got the blue jersey back.

Also i have small problem i have been accepted by a top team in france the problem is in france you get points throughout the season on top placings and so the team say i need 1500points and im in and im only on 1470 and next week is the last weekend to get points so basically i need a top 5 placing, hopefully all goes well.

thanks for reading (especially Jude)
Sam