#3 (?) and Falling OR "Now that BARR event was worthy"

State Omnium. 3 races, three chances to score points or be crushed by the competition depending on your legs.
While I had some questions as to if the event would take place at all, it did, and while there were only about 30 riders in the 1/2 and most fields, the 1/2 field contained all the top-ranked guys.
Hopes of points in the TT were dashed with a mile or so to go when Nick Clayville put :59 seconds in to me. You can't expect to have done well when you've just been pac-manned by your minute-man. So yeah, got smoked, 0 points. And the State TT Champ Chris Teufel honored the gold by crushing, and staying on course, and making his start time, and getting 1st place.
Things got really fun for me and everyone in the crit when 1)Andrew Pinfold and one of his B.C. mutant-henchman-crushers showed at the race and 2)my shoe retention system busted 10 minutes into the race. Did I mention the course went up and down a small mountain? Turns out I had good legs anyway but couldn't really use them too much due to the shoe, but threw in a few digs for fun and in the end went for the sprint and got a top-10, my minimum goal for most races.
Luckily I was able to borrow my host's shoes and pedals and take the start in the RR where Pinfold added two more mutant crushers to the mix. I don't know how much the change of footwear affected me, but I wasn't too great on the hill, but at least I didn't lose contact of the second group. But seeing that I was in the second group each time and that I had a whole 3 points so far I had nothing to lose and put in a solo move for 10 miles that put me in the company of Pinfold, McKissick and Clayville at the top of the climb. Unfortunately, not only did the rest of the front group get back on, but later, the whole rest of the field--15 guys, some with lots of points, caught back on too.
So it was gruppo compatto into the hill (another solo move got mowed down by Mick W.) and it was 2nd group time, at least this time I lead the 2nd group up to the top of the hill. But....that was it. Too few dudes with too little horsepower, too late. And me being alone and a sprinter was left to take the 2nd group scraps in hopes of a few omnium points should there be any left.
The three other dudes I was travelling with all DNF'd so they were itching to leave the venue so I didn't see the results. I have the feeling the B-ham crew that put the event on are so relieved that the nightmare is over that they will never post the results to their website and it will say "coming soon!" forever. Hopefully they'll send the results to WSBA.
McKissick was definately a deserving and classy winner: going 3rd, 1st, 1st, and 1st Rate rode super well and probably ended up 2nd and 3rd in the overall.
I'm looking forward to racing in my own fully-functioning shoes at Criterium Nationals this Sunday.