Brossard crit

Well this week was interesting...a little laryngitis on Monday...I 'm still not sure if it was more allergies, but whatever...then a little calf pain Friday, I think my set was just a mm too high, then Saturday I was riding at about 45km hr and was stung by a bee right below the eye. Eesh.

So never a dull moment in C wall.

Round 2 of Quebec Cup racing this weekend for a crit in Brossard. The tactic was simple...attack our brains out and win. Well we didn't want to make the same mistake(s) we made last week and we wanted to get the first win out of the way to make room for more.

We had a new addition to to the team as our Teammates Shaun and James landed from Australia earlier in the week. We let them know that although there was not 10,00$ on the line, the racing level is intense in Quebec that you would swear there was 10,000$ to win the race. Sometimes you can say allot without saying too much.

As we really haven't had that much opportunity to race together, it's a little bit of a learning curve, but JS Perron made sure that we weren't firing all bullets in the first 5minutes.

The pace was high and Garneau Club Chaussures was the main protagonist of the race, initiating , covering and blanketing the race in a sea of white, black and pink.
Our hard work payed off as it cause a split of about 13 guys off the front. We had 3 guys in this move, but so did Speidertech as they had their sprinters contingent there.

We were relentless in our attacks and forced them and the others into chasing and covering.
Hugo , myself and JS were in the red zone countless times. I was able to get off the front and do 6 laps but I could not manage to get more than 7 seconds advantage. I was caught and we kept on reshuffling , attacking and countering until Hugo and Kevin Lacombe slid away.

We were very confident in Hugo and although he would have his work cut out for him, it was a good hand to play. Hugo made us proud and took the sprint.

JS fired a well timed attack a steal the third spot. I covered the last digs as they tried to catch JS and barley missed 4th spot by a few cm's and had to settle for 6th.

When we found out Hugo got it was very satisfying to see the team successfully execute tactics and take two spots on the podium.

As it turns out our Australian teammates took 1st and 2nd in the bunch kick as well, so great day for Garneau Club Chaussures in Brossard. The whole team rode awesome, way to go boys!

As well, Jeff Schiller won the Springbank Road Race in Southern Ontario, good job Jeff and the Ontario Boys.