prix de Montrond

we were greeted with a real hot day today about 30 odd degrees so was good to see that summer has finaly arrived. the race was cat 1 and 126km over a 18km circuit with a 3km climb which wasnt that steep, you could go up in the big ring. i wasnt really expecting much of a result this race as iv just had the last week off as my grandparents came to visit me in morteau which was cool to see some family and to see some of the attractions around the area, probly the best would have been going to the Olympic museum in Lausanne. Any way the race started out different to normal as the first lap was really slow with barely any attacks and wasnt till the 2nd lap when the pace went on. i got into a good breakaway of about 15 riders but it wasnt feeling to good at all had no punch in the legs, but after a few more laps i started to come right and i was making all the good moves, then with 3 laps to go at the top of the hill the bunch caught us and i went with an attack over the top and got away with 4 guys and a few more bridged up. all the top teams were represented so i knew this was the winning move but our bunch was still to big so the attacks kept comming, on the last lap a group with the three main teams got away so it was left to me and one other team mate to chase them down. but it seemed i was the only one chasing then the last time up the hill my own team team mate who was 'to tired to work' dogged me and attacked and took 2 guys from our group. it was stupid as by this point the group in front was way to far ahead to catch and maybe if he helped me work to catch them then we may have caught them, but it seems the french dont like to do work on the front so not much i can do about it. i ended up 13 or 14 but i got a blue jersey for being the lead cat 2 rider in the challenge credit mutuel which is a series of cat 1 races and this race was the 4th in the series.