In the words of a wise man, "Sometimes you eat the bar; sometimes the bar eats you." This race falls into the former category. Pretty much everything went my way. Although I had a few minor mess-ups, none of them slowed me down too much. Luckily I was able to get my first win of 2011.
After a few laps it became a battle between me and one other rider--we had gapped the rest of the field by a pretty good margin. After putting in several digs, I could see that I wasn't going to open up a gap on the rider in second. Instead, I let him come through on an open section and just followed him for the final 3-4 laps of the race.
Throughout the entire race I bunny hopped a set of small barriers. The other guy always ran them and was about 2-3 seconds slower. I decided to jump him right before the barriers in the final lap. After attacking him in the section leading into the barriers, I had a big enough gap to cruise across the line uncontested for the win. Hard race--but fun.
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