The Breakaway Wins Again
Another hard fought battle up front leads to an elite ending for the ride. Turner French started it on Mountain Rd. Hunter P and then Hacker responded and up the ante, leading to a break of 10 guys off the front. That group cleared the light at the end of mountain and that was all she wrote.
Dan Smith, Tom Krol, Little T, Brothers Black, Stefano P, Sean Maher, Hacker, Hunter P and Turner French.
The chase behind was ummm, disorganized. Some guys took the shortcut, some peeled off early, others got dropped. Without the usual horsepower up front, there was no more steam in the engine.
Up front, after a bunch of attacks, regrouping, and sitting up. Turner French gave up trying to break the group up. Dan Smith and Tom Krol were allowed to roll off the front before the turnaround. They caught a couple of lights and had the gap, and took mucho points to the bank.
Behind, it was the aggressors vs the guys just glad to be there vs the old-timers. Big old stalemat! There was one point for up grabs at the turnaround and Little T nabbed that.
After that, as the chase rolled thru the I84 interchange zone, Turner French pushed off the front using the pinch point caused by stacked traffic at a light. A couple hundred meters later he was clear of the pack that was negotiating the cars, and he got to work covering the gap on his own. He would eventually catch the two leaders near the end, making it 3 to collect the final points on the night.
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