Today comrades Joe, Josh, Scott and I participated in the first race of this year's Greenbelt series of training races.  Our executariat raced with the A group and the rest of us with the C proles.  There, Joe quickly established himself at the front and I hung on for a while until a split formed and I dropped off the back.  As far as I could tell, the field was too thinned to form much of an organized chase (if we could even organize such a thing).   Josh and I later found ourselves in a small group with a couple of other riders, but by then the leaders were well ahead.  I thought the pace was a little slow and rode away for a lap, but couldn't stay away on my own.  Joe and two others lapped us just before the final lap.  Although Josh and I pulled off, I somehow missed seeing the finish, but Joe reports that after his heroic efforts throughout the race he had to settle for third in the sprint.  I'm confident he'll be a real force in the remainder of the series.

We watched the A & B races from the sidelines.  In the A race, a break formed quickly and gained a lot of time on the main group.  Scott reports he barely missed getting in the break, and we could see him valiantly trying to organize a chase, which regretfully never really came together.

To the future, comrades!

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--roy