#166: BMW Omnium crit
Today I finished out the omnium for the BMW Omnium. I was pretty tired after the double climb road race on Saturday, but still managed to hang on okay. Unfortunately, there was a crash in the middle of the field that split the Masters 30+ race apart. I was towards the back and by the time I dodged the flying bikes, there was a good gap to the leaders. I remember thinking it odd, but the racers put out by the wreck were just riding and not chasing hard at first… we could never close the gap and we were racing for 20th+ place… Because of the various teams represented in the lead pack, we never got closer than 10 seconds and generally were not going that fast. I worked pretty hard a couple of laps (along with some others), but they were gone. In the end, the chase group sprinted and my legs were junk…40th place (yuk!). I ended up 15th in the omnium due to omnium points in the road race and the crit. It was a disappointing weekend, but I sort of expected it given my recent work trip putting me off the bike for over a week.
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Andrea put in a great effort to solo lap the field in wet conditions (it started to rain again in her crit, it was basically dry for the M30+)..
