3/29 NWA Classic Road Race

NWA Classic Race Report;
Jay, Bob, and I made the last min. get in ur car decision to drive (bob did the driving) 4.5 hours and go to a one day Road Race in North West Arkansas. The course was for the most part flat with one decent hill and a few rollers, and the weather was a bit cool at first but warmed up nicely. This was the first time we have all three raced together and i must say it was a great experience. The first lap had a few break attempts that got reeled back in and the second lap was more of the same with bob doing a few solo moves that no one wanted to bridge up to him so he came back to the pack. There wasn't a breakaway attempt without either me, bob, or jay in it and that took alot of pressure off of all of us to try and cover everything. It was much easier than trying to guess what breakaway would stick and/or cover as many as you could before you were to tired to do it anymore.
On the third lap a fossil guy got up the road a long way and the pack went nuts trying to pull him back, and due to good pack positioning, and some great blocking by jay and the okc velo team a 13 man breakaway got motoring down the road with a nice rotation. At first everyone was working well together, but a group of three caught us and after there bridge sat on for recover which upset some of the break but with a little verbal encouragement we got it going again and everyone was doing there fair share of the work. Before the big hill i started sand bagging the break big time, so i would have enough energy to cover if anyone attacked the hill and bob took my pulls for me as i sat in the back. I hid to the left of the last guy rotating so he couldn't see me an just sucked wheel for a good portion of the 3rd lap and i think they confused bob for me and him as he was doing a lion's share of the work at the front. As luck would have it everyone was content to go easy up the hill (thank god) and we all stayed together but alot more people started hanging out at the back with me for some reason.
Bob put in a few attacks to try and get away as the others didn't want to burn up there energy before the sprint. It all stayed together for the end and i positioned my self about 4th wheel just before the big spin up for the sprint, bob got pushed a little farther back and got a little out of position for the sprint. The sprint started a long way back and i sat on an Undiscoverd guys wheel and was going to go around him but i thought it was way to long of a sprint still so i just waited until two guys came around me and i hung on there wheel but didn't have enough gas to get around them for 3rd. Bob made up for his lack of position and got stuck behind two guys that quit the sprint early, passed them and passed my Undiscovered leadout man to take 5th. Jay came up in the pack and won the pack sprint for 13th.
Its was awesome to have a teammate block and sacrifice his own results to help other teammates get up the road and try to win the race, even before the race racers where pointing jay out and telling there teammates that he was the wheel to watch for in the end for the sprint. It was with our ability to cover every break and Jays legend of killing everyone in the sprint and doing a great job blocking that we where able to get the results that we did.
Great job Bob and Jay! I look forward to racing more with you two, George, and the next 4's very soon to be threes as the season progress's.