We were 6 countrys, Colombia with two teams, Brazil, Venezuela with six teams, USA (Colavita), Panama and us (Mexico), all the countrys were really excited because it was the last chance to get points for the Olympics at London.
The first day it was a hot day, really wet, the terrain it was horrible with to much holes but with my supersix Cannondale it was easy to avoid the flats, the criterium was flat with two little hills, the crit had 3 miles per lap, we did 46 miles for two hours, the average speed was 21 miles, max speed was 40 miles.
The race started with too many attacks from Brazil and Venezuela, we cover all the attacks and try to look the breakaway, so in the 7th lap one Colombian girl attack on the little hill and two teammates cober really fast, and there was the break with two Mexicans, the colombian, the brazilian, colavita girl and two venezuelan girls. Me and another teammete we stayed with the first group, we covered all attacks, as I mentioned earlier, the wather it was very hot, so I drank my super GU Tablets in order hydrated all my body because i did such as hard work. ""seriously it was hot"
The last lap I was so nervous because I was in the peloton, so I thought "OK.... I can do this, I race in the best Socal Team (Sc Velo/Empower Coaching)," in the final straight away one Colombian girl went in the front try to win the sprint, but the Brazilian took her wheel and I took the brazilian wheel and we started to pass the Colombian and I started to pass the brazilian the final 50meters but in the final I couldn't pass her, I got 2nd in the group sprint, but I was really happy for my result and one of my teammates that was in the break, she had a flat in the front of our coach and he had wheels, she was able to get back really fast to the break . another team mate that was in the break , help her in the sprint and we won the race.
so the first day we took 1st, 5th and 11 th, we make some points for London.
By Jenny Rios
