Six Day-Day Four

Tonight was pretty blah for me in the mass start races, but my awesome teammate kept the points rolling in. Andrea had a great 3rd place finish in the scratch race.

Scratch
1 Abers, Brian Team Rubicon 10
2 Murray, Mike Team Oregon 9
3 Fisk, Andrea 8
4 VanValkenburg, Heather Team Rubicon 7
5 Hughes-Godfrey, Lynn Bike Cental 6
6 Bjesse-Puffin, Amelia Bike Cental 5
7 Curl, Darien Team Rubicon 4
8 Bihlmaier, Jeanne Specialized/RCB 3
9 Charboneau, Emily 2
10 Mautner, Meg NoMad Sports Club 1

The progressive points race didn't go so well, but we were saving ourselves for the Madison.

Progressive Pts
1 Abers, Brian Team Rubicon 10
2 VanValkenburg, Heather Team Rubicon 9
3 Curl, Darien, Team Rubicon 8
4 Murray, Mike Team Oregon 7
5 Hughes-Godfrey, Lynn Bike Central 6
6 Bjesse-Puffin, Amecial Bike Central 5
7 Bihlmaier, Jeanne Specialized/RCB 4
8 Charboneau, Emily 3
9 Fisk, Andrea
10 Mautner, Meg NoMad Sports Club -1

Our Madison started off great with some interesting exchanges, but they were powerful enough to keep us with the 3 teams in front of us. It was awesome to be riding in a paceline than by yourself. There were some small gaps that opened during our exchanges, but nothing that we had a hard time closing. We were also going to listen for the bell laps and try to get some points. Our strategy was to keep the person that was on the track on for the spring instead of trying to exchange before the 200 meter line. We can't wing it good enough to do that yet. At one point we got in front of Heather and Emily and I was up with the Abers and Murray who were duking it out pretty hard. I knew I would stay there very long since we can't exchange as fast as they can. Then we had one really botched exchange and we are not quite sure how it happened. Heather and Emily passed us and we were in 4th, again. I will say we had some awesome exchanges and we can't hardly wait to race tomorrow to get to try it again. Once you have felt how it is to have everything go perfect you just can't wait to do it again.

Madison
1 Abers, Brian Team Rubicon 20 Bjesse-Puffin, Amelia Bike Central
2 Murray, mike Team Oregon 11 Curl, Darien Team Rubicon
3 VanValkenburg, Heather Team Rubicon 7 Charboneau, Emily
4 Bihlmaier, Jeannie Specialized/RCB 4 -2 Fisk, Andrea
5 Hughes-Godfrey, Lynn Bike Central 2 -3 Mautner, Meg NoMad Spots Club

Overall
1 Abers, Brian Team Rubicon 182 Bjesse-Puffin, Amelia Bike Central
2 Murray, Mike Team Oregon 153 Curl, Darien Team Rubicon
3 VanValkenburg, Heather Team Rubicon 93 -2 Charboneau
4 Fisk, Andrea 83 -6 Bihlmaier, Jeanne Specialized/RCB
5 Mautner, Meg NoMad Sports Club 55 -14 Hughes-Godfrey, Lynn Bike Central