So third race of the season went down Sunday for me down in Winston Salem Sunday afternoon – second USCF race of the day, the field was pretty small. It started off fast – faster than I would expect. A guy from Wake Forest who had already raced in the collegiate race took off the front from the start whistle. I stayed on his wheel and the rest of the pack chased us for the first two .8 mile laps of the Winston Salem Downtown Criterium. It was a great course, with six turns, with turn number five being the only real technical one.

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