Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Graham Howard Wins the Tokyo Joe's Spring Crit!


From Graham Howard:

This past Sunday Garrett and I attended the Tokyo Joe's Spring Criterium held near Golden Colorado. The course was a simple 1k loop with half the course being slightly uphill and the other half slightly downhill. Garrett and I were active early and about 15 minutes into the 75 minute race were both off in a group of about ten others, including Frank Pipp of Health Net, Henk Vogels of Toyota United as well as riders from Vitamin Cottage, Slipstream and Team Type 1. The break stayed out all day, but was never very clear of the field. Attacks started to go from within the break with about five laps left in the race. Slipstream had numbers and they did the bulk of the chasing. Inside the last lap the break was all back together just dangling in front of the field, and as everyone let up to set up for the sprint, I took off. I came around the last corner knowing it would be close and just held off Vogels and Pipp at the line. Ohhhhhhhhh it feels good to win. I'm off to Seaotter this coming weekend with Joao, Burke and Morgan as the rest of the team heads to Georgia. Hopefully we can keep the momentum rolling.

2 comments:

Derek Graham said...

Well done, Grahamo. Looks like your escape from the Michigan winter is paying off.

Anonymous said...

must have been all the loaf....