Team BISSELL rode great in the RR on Sunday in Merced.
Although we didn't come home with the win, it wasn't for lack of effort.
I thought with most guys a bit tired and still under the weather from ToC we had a good showing and rode really well as a team. We covered attacks all day until about 25 of us went clear halfway into the race. We were fortunate to have 3 riders from BISSELL: Morgan, BJM and myself all made the group.
Attacks started with 2 laps to go which was still 50 miles to go.
Half of the guys were working, the other half looking for a free ride.
Ben Jacques-Maynes decided to try and split the 25 man group into a more select group, so we started to counter each other and slowly got the group down to 10 by the finish.
Eric Wohlberg rode away with one lap to go, hats off to him for a great ride!
I managed to get into a group on the final lap with 4 guys behind Wohlberg, we were caught by a remaining group with Ben and Morgan with half a lap to go and then started the attacks again.
The group split into the final 10 of us and with 3km to go split into two groups of 5, Ben in the front group and myself in the second group of 5 about 10 seconds behind.
With 500meters to go, our group caught the first group.
Ben jumped on my wheel and I was able to take him to about 250 meters to go where he took the group sprint for 2nd.
We ended up with 2 guys in the top 10 and Morgan showed he has lots of talent today. It was good to see.
-Aaron Olson
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