It isn't SuperWeek...

...but since I was in Boston for the week, I was able to find a race to keep the legs open over the weekend. The Wells Ave. training crit is a Boston institution, running every Sunday morning during the Summer for over 25 years. I rode the 10 miles out to the course and joined the A race (cat. 1-3). With over 50 riders, this turned out to be a fast, aggressive 32 miles of racing. Promising breaks slipped off of the front 4-5 times through the race, each lasting at least 5 laps. While racing on the front for most of the race, I was never in any of the moves that stuck. Just missing a bridge to the threatening 8 person break with about 10 laps to go in the race, I was forced to drift back to the pack and wait for the finish. Fortunately, the break quit working well together with about 4 to go and were caught on the last lap. In the chaos that followed on the last lap I was behind a gap that opened on the back stretch but was able to bridge across and pass a number of riders before the line to finish in the top 10. It was great to show of the Black and Green in another part of the country!