Norcal IC3 | A Bicycle Club
by: Ted Toribio
Early Bird, Feb 13,2011
P123, about 40 riders
Course: Flat, 3 corner with 1 sweeping turn
Conditions: Cloudy, a bit chilly about 60deg.
Teammatea: Bill L.
Other Teams: Yahoo, Clif Bar, AV, McGuire, SJBC, Form Fittnes and Garmin/Cervelo
Results: Ted 8th
Since this race started at 2:30 and only 5 mile from my church I was able to go after our morning service and still make it back for our evening service. From the gun Paul Penn attacks and by the end of the first lap I was at 95% of my max HR. and soon after Nathan English from Yahoo (winning solo) counter attacks and string out the pack for another 2 laps. Finally Nathan breaks off and take 2 riders with him. I believe Nathan drop his 2 break mates later and would solo for the win. So now we are sprinting for 2nd place.
From here the race would pick up super fast the slow down until Joel Robertson (AV) and the Garmin rider would keep the pace high till the end. With 3 laps to go I found myself off the front with a good gap. Not sure what I was think by taking a flyer with 3 to go. Then a Form Fitness and a AV rider bridges up and we start to rotate. It wasn’t long til the Form Fitness guys drops and now it just me and the AV guy. We rotate a few time and he pops off and now a SJBC rider bridge to me and we start to work together but with 1 to go we are caught so now I have less then a lap to recover for the finish. By the time we hit the sweeping bend I started feeling OK again and manage to finish 7th in the field sprint and 8th over all.