White Rock update

with three of our breakaway. The photographer, Greg Descantes, says our breakaway was nearly 80km long, though I thought it a bit less. Nonetheless, we were out there for a good long time.

It appears that my breakaway compatriots (Shawn Morris of Rubicon-Orbea, and Allen Krughoff of Rio Grande racing, both American teams) didn’t end up finishing. In retrospect, because I was still feeling fairly good for a continued steady pace in the break and, while I’m happy how it went, there’s a part of me that feels we should have buried ourselves to stay out longer. But the other two were definitely cracking, and we wanted to save something in the tank for the catch and the inevitable attacks that would follow. There was probably more potential for the break to work, or at least remain out until the final circuit and miss the pack shattering attacks over Magdalen, had the it been about 5 strong. But then perhaps the pack would have chased sooner, especially had there been any really dangerous riders in the break. Granted, much of our success , for what it was, was must be attributed to Morris’ hard pulls on the flats, which caused him to crack on the climbs a bit.