…all within a span of 24 hours!
Last Friday night was the final race of the Ohio Road Cycling Calender, finishing up under the lights at the Milford Sunflower Classic on one of the tougher criterium courses in the state, featuring six corners, a tough uphill section, and a blazing fast downhill to the final corner. A small, but strong, field showed up to race for 60 minutes and the $1000 purse.
Cool sequence of the downhill, all photo’s from Jeffery Jakucyk.
The race started fast, and a strong break of three took off on the 3rd lap. The field was blowing up as the break went up the road,and we were left with a main pack of ten riders for the remainder of the race. The next time we saw the break was when they lapped us about 35 minutes into the race. This was expected because once they were gone, there really wasn’t anyone left in the group that could take up the chase. RGF had a guy in the break and three guys out of ten left in the group, so they did an excellent job neutralizing any would be efforts to bridge or bring it back. I wasn’t willing to do much due to the fact that I had to dig deep a few times just to stay in contact! It was a little tough out there at times!
In the end, it came down to a field sprint for 4th. I put in a huge effort on the hill with one to go and passed everyone, lost one spot going into the downhill, and was able to hang on for 5th. I’m pretty satisfied with the result, as there was some tough racing going on throughout. Adios.
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