I barely knew this was on the calendar. Wasnt an A race really. Didnt know anything about it. A few loose emails within teammates, I got the impression a few would show up, and a few would stay behind. Something about a bachelor party for Aric. Synergy ended up with 5 in a field of 13 total..for the 1/2.

In fact, there was a total of like 36 racers for ALL categories. The schedule for the weekend started off with a 84 mile road race on saturday, and a TT and circuit on sunday.

 Synergy had Joe Lewis, Chad Christenson, Stick Lavick, Adam Hanson and myself. An early attack from Adam, Mark Brone, and Rick Laliberte left them off the front for about 3.5 laps. The course had an inner loop of 16m(x4) and a 10 mile out and back. With some power from an unknown racer from Utah, the 3 man group was caught with about 30m to go. Adam and Mark couldnt latch onto the group and dropped back as we passed. Another group formed with Joe Lewis, Brian Dahl and ? just after the catch. So these 3 were away for maybe about 15m or so when again, 3 guys in the pack chased hard to bring it back. The 3 that worked all weekend were the guy form Utah, a strong cat 3 GP guy(Nicholas Vetter) and Josh Roeser(penn cycle). 

After they were caught, I made a hard push off the front and had a small gap. Lavick told me to just keep on goin. I had maybe 30sec on the now scattered group. I was in the homestretch with about 5m to go. I was out of water and I had cramps forming. Not good. I was caught. We were now a group of 6. Chad and Rick dropped off, and Adam and Rick were a little ways behind too. A good sprint from Joe gave him the win, followed by GP and Great Plains(Dahl)

An 8 mile tt sunday morning shuffled the leader-board a bit. The Utah guy, Josh and the GP dude all were top 3 in the TT. This bumped Joe down to 4th. Joe and lavick were without Tt bikes. Headwind out, a nice tailwind back.   The rain came for the Circuit race. We decided on 6 laps. Adam again made an early effort and got away. Mark Brone bridged up and they were together for maybe 3 laps. Joe made a mid race solo attack and was able to eventually bridge to Adam and Mark. Those 3 worked hard to the finish eating up all the time bonuses. Time splits were delivered from Matt Anderson. Joe won the overall by one second! Sort of pure luck in that we didnt know how things were playing out exactly. 

A fun weekend in Viking country. We stayed at the Viking Motel.