Turns out Symmetrics showed up

Who would be at Enumclaw? Svein and crew, yet again. This year their domination was just silly. Crushing his own TT course record of 12:44 with a 12:25 ride. I thought I was fast by shaving 5 seconds off my time from last year that got me 12th. Nope, too f-ing slow kid. Good for 23rd. Maybe okay if it were a timed race, but not so hot on top-1o Omnium scoring.

Luckily, or rather, without needing any luck, Matt Weyen did a good ride to take 4th.

Then, the shit really hit the fan when it rained cats and dogs for the first 10(?) minutes of the crit. and the top-1o selection ocurred in the first 2 laps. Matt again rode strongly, but for 11th and no points. Probably the most destroyed the race has ever been at the event, and Mr. Tuft won his second stage from a 3-man break. Ollerenshaw and Ecker were there too with him. Nice ride by Ecker who was also with Ollerenshaw in the break at Piece of Cake.

Then, in the road race Symmetrics pulled back the Bob's-inspired break where we had Brandon and Justin Mayfield. They had 30 seconds at base of the climb and were reeled in 3/4's up. Then it was panic stations throughout the field as 17 dudes rolled away. Again, Matt made it and was set to go high in the standings since he would probably get some good points and Tubbs and Ecker among others didn't make the split.

That was it for the rest of the pack. All points up the road, and we weren't going to help chase even if it would have done any good. Then, to make the somewhat tenuous situation nearly hopeless, Matt went down before the final climb and limped in in 14th place to secure 11th overall. Really a good ride, but overall a shellacking for the team, and pretty much everyone but Symmetrics. McKissisk did a good race overall and took 2nd in the road race, and Washington's road champion Chris Daifuku took 4th I think. I guess he is worthy of the jersey and title then.

So, now we see if the 8-man star-studded Bob's squad can produce anything at Mt. Hood. Our biggest race of the year with our best line up. It looks like the weather will good, so that is one less hardship to face there.

See you at stage 1.