My first NRC criterium.
It was a 1Mile+ coarse with nice big wide roads and the corners were not too tight so the bunch carried a lot of speed. We had 42 laps, with a Field of 220 riders, with teams like, jelly belly, navigators etc.
The race was fast from the start it took me a while to figure out the best places to ride in the peloton to save energy but i soon settled in and got the hang of it. The raced stayed together from 10 laps out we had to start moving towards the front so when the pace went on we did not get caught out, about this time was when things started to get pretty hairy a lot of guys fighting just to be in the top quarter of the field made for some close calls and nasty crashes. considering the size and speed of the field there were not a lot of crashes, which was great.
In the closing 3 laps it was like no race i had done before, moving up was almost impossible, people were bouncing off each other everywhere and teams were trying to move there trains up to the front. I was up towards the front sitting in top 20 hoping for a top 40 finish but i kept getting swarmed and loosing places rapidly. the last few laps you just have to run on adrenaline, I was to far back on the last lap and got caught behind a nasty crash so i ended up rolling in in the top half of the field. it was a blast of a race, I learnt a lot and i cant wait for the next one to do better.
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