Tuesday the 2nd

Spring Season was Short at SGR

The rain held off or stopped in time for the ride, depending on what part of the state you were coming from. It ended up being a normal-size crew out for the ride tonight. As soon as the ride started properly, Steve B put his head down and got to work. Once he had a gap, he put it into the next gear and sped away. Within a couple of streets, he had three for 300 to 400 m.

Behind him, his CW teammates did nothing to close the gap down. With everybody else seemingly content to settle in for the evening, the gap went up even more by the time the ride hit Mountain Road. Steve was well out of sight, and he would stay away for the rest of the evening. Kudos on scoring the first solo breakaway of the year. Behind him, it took until the intersection of Mountain Road to really get things going. Hacker tried to get a chase going along with Rusty and Sean Maher.

Later on Moss Farms, Turner F rolled off the front along with Hunter P. They held a gap until the route 322 crossing. They got the green and the pack just nabbed the red light, bringing it all back together. The ride down Mount Vernon was uneventful. Brian O, fresh off winning Battenkill the weekend prior, made a couple of attacks along with Steffen H and a couple of others.

Hacker led a group, including Steffen H, off the front in search of the sprint point, but Brian O was in there and was able to get across the line first to pick up a few points behind the solo breakaway of Steve B.

The ride regrouped on the backside despite a couple of guys trying to get in a position to get a chase group split off the front. Hunter P tried that as the ride came to the route 10 crossing. He attacked hard on West Johnson and got a gap with Evan W and VladZ. Those 3 made it under the light, and the chase had to stop for red, but then snuck thru when the coast was clear after 20 seconds or so. Up front, the three were working together. Behind, once the downhill on East Johnson was done, CW came to the front and chased hard. Turner and Aaron B took long hard pulls and brought the trio back to within sight by the Greenhouse climb. The chase was hard enough to split the peloton, with 5-8 guys not even starting the greenhouse climb with the pack. The break was absorbed with a hundred meters to the light, and from there, Little T was able to get to the line first from the pack.  

The finale into Hamden was fast but steady. A few guys were up front looking for redemption with the final sprint, but Chris C hit a hold on Tuttle in the final km and flatted. That took a couple of guys off the pace, leaving the Black brothers, Little T and Hunter P in place for the sprint. Aaron and Noah B led it off early, and Little T was able to come around safely, with Hunter P hanging on to third on the day. It was all behind the solo breakaway though.