Weather: Pefect for once. High 70’s with a stiff breeze
Course: About a .8 mile course around a baseball stadium. Has a nice little short uphill with an sharp skittish “S” curve.
Warm Up: Screwed up and came two hours early because I thought the race started at 10am. Oh well, finally got in a decent one anyway.
Race: Very big field of at least 70 guys. Lined up in front next to the 18 year old kid who won two race last week. I hate kids. 
Figured to stick to his wheel like glue since I knew he had the gas to run the entire race by himself. I was right. He was at the front most of the race and I did my best to stick to him whenever I could and when he broke I went with him. Twins! I was never not top 20 except….lap 6 or so, in the S curve some do do brain loses his line and pushes into the UVM kid and that pushed me into the grass. Luckily I was in the front and within a couple laps of killing myself I was back up front. Last lap, Green Line Velo came to the front and I hitched on. I was forth coming up the hill and I was in perfect position but…the three guys in front of me couldn’t pull up a small hill on the last lap and the swarm came. Unfortunately, the hill is before the S curves so I had to sit in thru them so as not to die from skittish riders. However, coming into the finish stretch I pulled back into the front bunch and I think I finished top 10. Who finished first? The 18 year old!