March 24, 2007 Branch Brook 45+ "The Winning Continues!!!"

Masters 45+Results:
1st Dave Melchior
5th Brian Rafferty
6th Chris Castaldi

Distance: 20 miles

Report:
This week there was a much bigger field, so our normal barrage of attacks didn't seem to have the desired effect and every time we got someone up the road the guys from other teams just seemed to be covering and not inclined to work, though they seemed to have a lot of enthusiasm for chasing people down. On the early part of the third lap Chris went and got a gap Brian and Ken quickly bridged but the group of 8+ didn't seem to have the organiaztion to make it stick. With one lap to go it was clear we were facing a field sprint, Dave sat on Chris' wheel while Ken, Will, Brian, and Damian made various moves designed to stretch out the field. Damian took a very long and hard lead followed by Ken and then Chris with Dave right behind, In the final 100 meters then Dave saw a guy go who looked dangerous, got his wheel and kicked past him in the last twenty meters. The team functioned perfectly and put its sprinter up right near the front of a stretched out field at 150 meters without his having done any work for the last lap and a half, which is exactly the goal.