Mid Week Del Mar Crit

Well, I still had some leg stuff going on, but managed to snag my best result since trying my hand at the masters racing here in socal a year or so ago.

There was a midweek crit in Del Mar - pretty crazy to see what, about 50 guys??? toe the line at 3:45PM on a wednesday.

Don't these people have jobs? ;-)

Here's some in race footage I found over at http://www.delmarcrit.com/:





BTR forum member Chris Daggs gets some pretty good camera time in this race.

There's also some footage of a really scrawny and really white dood going across a small gap to join a dangerous looking breakaway at around 19:00-20:00 minutes into that clip.

You can see that effort (it's marked at about 17:30) in the srm screenshot below - I went kinda hard there to go across that gap):

I made it across and followed wheels in that break, which was quickly brought back into the fold. Not much really happened after that and watching the finish above was pretty funny - when you are pedaling the gaps don't seem that big, but damn there was a lot of real estate between third and where I eventually wound up in fourth. I'm not sure what was up in that sprint, but I actually passed people going to the line - that doesn't happen very often.

FWIW, the guy who won, I'm pretty sure his biceps are bigger than my quads - and I'm definitely sure that his tan is better than mine!!! LOL!