Santa Cruz Classic Criterium

From Ben Jacques-Maynes:

Four team BISSELL riders participated in the Santa cruz classic criterium on historic beach hill this weekend. The action started quickly and Andy J-M was immediately in the move of the day, with super-sougneur Jono, myself (BJM) and Timmo covering moves from behind. The race dragged out over 2 hours with some serious attrition, and when the front group split in the last 5 laps Andy was caught behind. I jumped into action, bridging the 45 second gap to the front of the race with a few others and then immediately hit out in search of the lead quartet. I had them in sight but the finish came a lap or two too early, and so I finished a solo 5th position. Andy sprinted in the diminished chase group, finishing 9th, while Tim blasted to 11th out of the pack. Jono pulled the pin but backed up the team with info from the sidelines.

Santa Cruz Classic Crit

From Scott Zwizanski:

Raced solo again today. About 75 riders lined up for 50 laps of a hard circuit with a little climb every lap that was made extra hard because of a big headwind. Several breakaways happened throughout the race, but none got further than about 15-20 seconds up the road. I got into a breakaway of 9 riders with about 12 laps to go that finally got a big gap. There was lots of attacking out of this group but nothing getting away until i launched an attack at the 5-lap to go mark. Finally everyone was out of gas and no one wanted to chase, so i was gone. I started catching groups of lapped riders with 2 laps to go. And i held on to win solo. It was cool crit course, super hard. And the course has been used since 1970, so it has some history too.

Also, here is the newspaper article:
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/sports/ci_8837205