Tour of Virginia Stage 2 Criterium

4/24/2007
Tonight was the criterium. This was an absolutely crazy course. There was a 50 mph left hand turn onto a really narrow road. There was also a hill that took the racers through the last two turns and it was about an 8% grade. With 175 riders starting this made the hill even harder. As the front of the group would hit the hill the back of the group would have to slow way down and then re-accelerate on the hill.

After call ups where done the race was on. Jame stayed on or near the front the entire first half of the race. This appeared to be the safest place in the pack. The rest of the team stayed in the front half of the pack for the entire race. The only crash that we where involved in was Joe. He wasn’t hurt. He went down on the hill when another rider crashed into him.

For the most part the race was pretty uneventful. All the guy’s finished with the same time as the pack. Tomorrow is when the real racing start’s.