Race Report: CBR Carson, 6 of 6

Race: CBR #6

Date: 6/1/25

AVRT racers: Thialor Mize, Roz Patterson

Top Result: Thialor Mize- 2/23

Course: 4 corner crit. Course reversed from usual. Downhill after T2 into a rolling straight, uphill T3 to 4, then a long sprint section. Crosswinds.

Nutrition: Rice/jam/yogurt for breakfast. Two SIS gels.

Report: I knew coming into this day the chance of a breakaway was likely. It was quite windy, and the course lended itself to breaks. Morgan was securely in 1st for the BAR omnium, so it was logical that A Faster Me would want to load the podium for social media as much as possible. As expected, a break with two of them went with about 10 laps to go. Roz inspired the peloton to work, with the closest the group getting about 5-10 seconds to the move, before it began to falter. AFM understandably had started to interfere with pulls. We didn’t give them any time to respond when I followed a blistering attack by Jasmine Naea of Mamis to bridge across to the break, and that was the last we’d see of the peloton. I knew AFM had a sprinter and a time trialist up there, and was guarded for the eventual moves the TT rider (Elisa) would make. Sure enough, almost every lap had her testing the waters to see if she could break away solo. I made sure that didn’t happen. When it came down to 1 lap to go, she tried again, but I also knew the solo rider for LABC was not willing to lose, so I let her chase it to set me up for the sprint. It worked, but I had a bit of a monkey wrench thrown in my plan when AFM boxed me in. C’est la vie, I’m quite happy to bring home second for our team in what was one of the most animated CBRs I’ve participated in in a long time.