Robert Winder

Both M123 & P12 at EBC Crit were won by CalGiantBerry.

M123 had a good break of 4 including CalGiant, Joel, Rich Juarez and Chris Carscadden from Adobe/HDR pb Lombardi Sports(!).  I got there 20 minutes after the start and the break looked strong, so it proved with all 4 riders working well and getting a 35second gap at the most.  The bunch was disorganised and MS had the numbers but not the horses to get the gap back.  Little moves kept going off the front, but never enough to make a dent on the high-powered break.

The 4-up sprint was easily taken by ? from CalGiant with Joel, Rich and Chris following in that order.  Nice way to get the team BAT points up, Chris - great ride.

Then it was off to Bestbuy for a new camera, just back in time to get photo’s of the proseys race.

The beauty of the camera is it lets me take 250 photos in focus - but then most have the composition of a 3 year old with a Polaroid.  Sorry for you Flickr friends - you have to see more than your fair share of air and focus on the grass shots.

Back to the prosey race, we had Darin Devine, Paul Sumner, Shaun Harless and Chris willing to work it out.  Paul got in the early move for V for Viktor, and all was well until a prime unleashed some Belarus sprinting prowess and the break disintegrated.  Joel and Viktor rode together for a few laps before succumbing.   Darin and Shaun went on the move, but the rest of the race was made up of BPG launching attack after attack, well it was more like Viktor after Viktor…

With 3 to go Viktor disappeared up the road and it looked all over, until CalBerry setup the chase.

With one to go my new camera caught Vik and ? from CalBerry in chase and field a way back.  By the finish, ? was replaced by Briggs and Viktor was gone.  It looked like Briggs from Bosch and in the closing field I think that Paul Sumner took somewhere 5-8th - results TBD.

As we left the parking lot the BPG team looked in deep thought and discussion, they dominated the race, but ended with only 3rd and CalBerry with their small team punished the tiring Viktor.

Nice riding by all today… although a special mention for Alice Pierce from Metromint who came down in the W3/4 race and broke her elbow.  A nasty injury that Mex had a couple of years ago and will need some time to heal.  Get well soon Alice.