BVC Friday Racing - 5th in an AB race!

Opening night for the BVC Winter Series....

Combined AB, 5 A's, 12 B's... very fast...

The first race was Elimination to Scratch, which when done with the A's, and with a big field, is about my least favourite race (right up there with Unknown Distance..) If it's B's only I can push up to the front and do something. But that simply doesn't work well with a bunch of A's up there :-( And with my big gear it's really hard to do much at the back.. Tonight I ended up getting locked out on the first sprint... 

Next was a 45 Lap Scratch Race. Crazy fast, averaged 48km/h. I managed to hang in at the back, and luckily was at the right point when the group split. Followed Bruce Denis who followed Ben Cowburn who pulled us back up to the front group. I think about mid-way. There ended up with about 12 riders in the new front group. Again managed to stay with them and get a reasonable position for the final 3 lap sprint. Managed to pull over and get a fifth. 

The last race was a 5x10 Points race. Not quite as fast as the Scratch race... But still hectic. I wasn't able to do anything except hang on for dear life for each of the sprints... My speed was > 55km/h for each of the first four and I was at the end of the group ... But managed to get to the end of the race and would have finished in the final sprint (maybe 7th or 8th), but Mike and Boris had a minor crash on the back stretch and everyone behind them pulled up track. But still a good result for me for this race.