Six V's in a Day... that's special!

Six victories in one day... you're kidding? No, please read on!

# 1) You've seen Jeff's win on the final day of the Mt Hood Classic (read the next post if you have not)
# 2) Davis Bentley (15) won the Junior 15-16 Northern California/ Nevada district time trial championships... wanna share your ride Davis? Maybe after school is out!
# 3) Dave Bailey romped to a M35+ win at the Steve Dunlap time trial. The elite and masters Nor Cal/ Nevada Time Trials are this coming Sunday so it looks like Dave is tuned up!
# 4) James LaBerge (14) bounced back from his .75 second loss in the same time trial to take the 15-16 sprint later in the day at the EMC Criterium. Joel was 2nd and took every prime. Marcus was there too. Great teamwork!
#5 and #6) I scored rare double wins yesterday at the EMC Crit by taking the M45+ and M35+ races. In the M45+ event Greg Betonte (Reno Wheelmen) and I countered attacked a two-rider prime that pre-race favorites Bubba Melcher (Clover), Steve Gregorios (Morgan Stanley) and Joe Saunders (Spine) went ballastic for. Greg and I worked well together for the next 25 minutes and I took the win. In the M35+ race, the wind picked up (15mph) yet the speed was still high on this incredibly smooth (newly paved) Pleasanton industrial crit course. Teammates Dean LaBerge, Billy Innes and I were active at the front, but it wasn't until half way through this one hour race that the break was gone (I followed Chris Wire of Safeway going strong for a prime). Fortunately I made the 7-man break. Unfortunately, so were Brian Bosch (June 2 WOT winner) and Eric Easterly (both CVC), 35+ District Crit Champ Steve Reaney (Cal Giant), 30+ District Crit Champ Andres Gil (Pacific State Bank), Joel Robertson (Trumer Pils) and Chris Wire (Safeway). With Dean and Billy's speed in the sprint I didn't need this break to stay away like others did (Brian was working A LOT) and Steve had no teammates so he was the workhorse. The final attack came 1000 meters out from Brian which Chris and then I latched onto. I jumped Chris with about 500 meters to go (long, but it was the tailwind section) and I held on for the win. Dean and Billy took the field sprint for 9th and 10th. Great teamwork!

Larry