Chris, Greg, I were up in Mount Pleasant, MI for the criterium on Saturday. Greg experienced some bad luck with his seatpost early in the race, so Chris and I shared the workload of covering threatening moves. Racing in Michigan seems a bit different than other states… tentative and Cat 3-esque (if that makes sense), which can become very frustrating when you only have 1 or 2 teammates. Anyway, there were several moves with either me or Chris in it that looked good but always came back. It came down to a field sprint and I had Chris on my wheel with 1 to go (in the top 5). After the last corner there was some bunching and Chris couldn’t open up his sprint. I think he ended up 6th.

Greg and I started the 104 mile RR on Sunday. The two of us were heavily marked which made things quite difficult on the 2 of us. Greg put it some big efforts early on to bring back a fairly threatening break but his bad luck continued with a crash in the feed zone (due to some rider who couldn’t handle his musette bag) Greg was stranded by the wheel car and his race was over. I eventually got into a good break with 4 and 2 bridged up to make it 6 (maybe 45 miles from the line?). The Bissell rider who won sat on the whole time. I was in the hurt locker for the last 20 miles because of a missed feed. Ended up 4th, which was bittersweet considering the win was certainly within reach. Hopefully a good build up to success in WI and at Hyde Park.

-Vince Roberge