Tour of the Depot report

Congrats to Dave C. and Kevin P. who both had podium finishes in Saturday's circuit race. Kevin took 3rd in the cat 5 division and DC redeemed his TT dropped-chain time with a 2nd place finish in the Cat 4s. We had a good-sized group racing the cat 5s with Brandon J. putting in a good circuit race finish as well, and John P., Don B., and Mike R. also racing.


In the cat 4s we decided to race an aggressive race and try to get a break or soften-up the field since none of us are too strong in the sprint. From the first lap of the circuit race we attacked on the short climb and kept it up on the 2nd and 3rd laps as well. Seeing that nothing was going to stick we put ourselves in good position for laps 4 & 5 and tried to be in place for the final, downhill sprint. It paid off for Dave who found a good line right into 2nd place.



For Sunday's road race we decided on a similar strategy: attack, attack, and counterattack and hope something sticks. Matt got off the front with a couple of other guys going up the slight ascent on the back side of the lap back into G-ville, and they held it off for a while, but eventually the main group reeled in the leaders and despite our best efforts we couldn't get an attack to stick. The sprint finish at the end of sunday's race was similar to saturday's circuit race: downhill and fast. Unfortunately neither dave nor matt had it to pull in a podium, but we both felt good about our efforts and we're looking forward to east canyon with a little more climbing.