4/5 Masters 40+ Race Report

Where: Dominguez Hills
Event: CBR- Dominguez Hill Crit #2
Race: 4/5 Masters 40+
Who Raced: Me, Barry, Jen's, and WES!!
Place: 3rd with a points prime win


I just have to preface after yesterday's mess I came back STRONG (HTFU)!! To make a long story short yesterday's course(Long Beach Grand Prix) was a bit on the technical side and very narrow cornering...with 4 laps to go one of the Sho-Air guys tried to make a move and by doing so took me out!! I went down on my new Fuji!! I've been fortunate enough or unfortunate however you want to look at it were I've been in so many crashes that it's no biggy for me anymore. Fortunately it was more of a slide than a crash...I ended with road rash on top of my road rash as well as a nice raspberry on my ass...Linda took pic's that will be floating around sometime soon, so keep an eye out. Anyway I'm a little sore and the bike has some character now but all is good...

CUT TO: THE PRESENT

I went out today for one goal and one goal only...to retain the yellow jersey by winning the points prime. Thanks to the help from my fellow teammates we executed to perfection!! It was textbook...Before the Race Jens, Barry, and I knew what had to be done...Wes on the other hand being his first race of the year came to me and asked...Hey Lawrence "What's the plan" I explained to him that there will be a points prime in the middle of the race that we have to cue up for..and just deliver me to the 4th corner, I'll do the rest... and he said..."DONE!". And so we were off...the race was nothing out of the ordinary...comfortably fast, fairly safe and always challenging...Wes is extremely strong and was upfront for the entire first part of the race...as the clock hit 20 I knew the prime was coming up in the next lap...as we popped around the 4th corner I moved up to Wes and said "bro...this is it!" as we hit the start finish the announcer called the prime...THEN IT WAS ON!! All of a sudden the textbook train formed...Wes up front, Barry in second position, Jens third, and me in the caboose...It couldn't have been more perfect!! Wes immediately cranked it up around corner 1, then he pulled off, and Barry did his thing around corner 2, and lastly Jen's "the BULL" domestique extraordinaire delivered me exactly and I mean EXACTLY where I needed to be...As we cranked it around the 4th and final corner I put the gas on and exploded to the start/finish for the points...It was an AWESOME display of true unadulterated team work!! If it wasn't for our group effort it would have never happen...As we got to one lap to go I cued up ready to try and nail it all....got on Barry's wheel until the 3rd corner where I jumped on the inside and made my move!! I came around corner 4 in pole position but unfortunately the legs just couldn't hold it...2 guys ended up passing me. No worries...we executed what needed to be done. Yellow baby!!

THANKS GUYS!!
L

BTW- Being old men Barry and can do multiply races...well today we did 3!! Which is a first for me...4/5, 4, 3/4. I'm TOAST!!