Mothballs Criterium -Goleta, CA By Holly Breck

Mothballs is a short, flat, fast, "D" shaped course. Windy on the front straight and fast on the back side. Its exactly a 1k course and most the time if not careful breaks can stick and lap the feild. There where quite a few strong, fast women in our feild. Lisa, Amber, Pc and myself all had a plan, which was to watch and counter any attacks that had went, which we did beautifully.Lisa, Pc and Amber did a great job attacking and countering anyone who would try to go and Amber got out in a break soloing with some prem pick ups for a while. I was just trying to slow down anyone from trying to catch any of my teammates up the road. I guess my legs where a little dead after the RR the day prior so I did the best I could to help out. On the last lap is when it got a we bit hairy. Everyone gets all excited to sprint for the line. So around the first corner la Grange was on the front with Amber on the inside of  her,Pc to the left of Amber and myself on the other side of Pc. La Grange jumped Amber grabbed her wheel and I jumped on Ambers wheel.  Just before the last corner Amber attacks on La Grange, La Grange fights back and pinches me off of Ambers wheel, pushing me wide on the last corner sqeeking in a surf city girl in the mix as well. Now theres four of us barreling into the final straight,Amber doing all she can to lead me out so i swing out and sprint as hard as I can with Sruf city taking first La Grange taking second and myself taking third, Amber ended up fifth and lisa and pc pack finishs but with excellent attacks and counters throught the race. WOW!! Was I worked after that sprint. Though we didnt get the top spot on the podium we sure had alot of fun, worked well together and came away with some pretty awesome stuff. Thank you so much everyone for your help and the support. Until next time, keep the rubber side down