Another even quicker recap

Another even quicker recap:

This one involved a little bit of travel to just outside of Paris. UCI 1.12 Saint Maximin. It was a 5km circuit done more times than I want to count. The circuit involved a climb through the finish line of about 1k and was fallowed by a false flat and a turn into a cross headwind, fallowed by a downhill section back to the climb. The "hill" was big ring all day, which really wasn’t that awful. It just made the rest of the circuit feel really good, especially the false flat immediately after.
A break of about 9 went after the first couple of laps and that was THE break. I’m still trying to figure out how this race got the "UCI" sanctioning it did…or maybe it was pulled at the last minute?? There were two teams in there that were fairly decent and had about a million guys in the field, and also had men in the break, so things were controlled by them, at least for the most part. There were few moves that looked as if they might have made a solid chase group. I know Sean and I did too much work to get ourselves in one of these…really I thought it was solid, but I guess I was wrong.
By the end the "hill" had taken its toll on all of us. Three of us remained when we rolled the final lap. The finish was an uphill bunch sprint…well sort of. Aron, Sean, and I ended up 28, 32, and 44 respectively. Nothing horrible, but nothing to get all excited over.

Other comments:

France has a larger discrepancy between classes than I would have imagined. We spent a little bit of time driving around to find the race. In that time we drove through a seemingly private town that included its own polo club and golf course, and we drove by some little shanty towns (tin lean two’s and all)…literally.

About 100 meters past the start/finish: All of us rolling out for some good ol' fun.

Post race, getting ready to head out. Left to right, myself, Aron, and Chris.