Day 6: Tour of Holy Hill road race

Eric and I were both looking forward to this race after our strong showing yesterday. Its a fun circuit with several power climbs. The country is beautiful and the parking lot is next to a lake that we jump in after the race every year. There needs to be a lake at the finish of every hot bike race. Overall, we went pretty hard most of the time. There were a lot of hard efforts on the hills with attacks and breakaway attempts. I attacked with one rider with 1.5 laps to go, but they brought us back with one to go. Then Eric counter attacked and nobody went with him. Soon one rider jumped up to him and they started to ride away. The field just watched, it was great. We kept riding along and nobody did anything. We came to the first hill of the final circuit and a rider put in a stinging acceleration up the hill, but after that, nobody wanted to do anything. 5 minutes later I heard somebody say 'it looks like were racing for 3rd'. And we were, because the field just gave up. I put in some big efforts to get to the front near the finish, but I kept getting swarmed left and right. It was hard to keep position near the front. They changed the finish this year as well which didn't help, and before I knew it, we were make the right hander with a K to go. I was about 30 back with no room to move up, so thats where I finished. But hey, Eric got the win!