Go Fatty Go!

Fresh off his win at the legendary Five-Points Road Race in Indiana, PA, Fatty has notched up another win! This time at the track. Woo-hoo, go Fatty go! Here's his take on it:

As I pulled into the track last night I noticed LOTS of cars and bikes.
"What is going on here tonight?" I wondered. I was looking forward to the published schedule that included all of my favorite races and figured the perfect weather brought out a big crowd. Well, it did. Including all the friday night guys that had their race canceled due to rain last week.
Turned out the track made a last minute schedule change and tuesday night became the National Championship 60-lap Points Race qualifying race. Great.
That means the lowly cat 3's only got to race 2 events instead of 4 before the big boys came out to play.

Of course the 2 events picked were my least favorite. Win-Out and Miss-Out.
Great. Maybe I should have stayed home...

Win-Out: I figured I better come up with a plan quick if I wanted a chance.
We had 25 fast cat 3's lined up on the boards. I put on a big gear as my plan was to let the big fat guys kill each other for the first sprint win and I would counter hard for a solo 3 lap move and carry it to the next 2nd place sprint lap. So, I did just that. Held on and took 2nd place a half lap ahead of my chasers. Sweet.

Miss-Out: Always a bit stressful making sure to NOT be the last to cross the line each lap. I hovered about 5-6th wheel for the first half of the laps, just keeping out of trouble. On one non-descript lap I suddenly found myself at the back of the 8 or so riders left and all boxed out. But wait, the seas parted and I quickly shot a gap at the line. Still safe. The announcer was jazzed about that move and the crowd cheered. Fast forward a couple more laps and I made it to the final 3. We get 1 neutral lap to set up for the final sprint. Remaining were a 230 lb pure sprinter, a TT/pursuit guy and me. I jumped the 2nd wheel behind the sprinter and we took off for the line. As I started to come around his wheel in the 4th turn he throttled the gas and left me in the dust. 2nd place again.

2 second places gave me the overall cat 3 omnium WIN for the night. Not bad for my (formerly) 2 least favorite events. Now I only need 3 more upgrade points. Barring disaster I should be a cat 2 after next week. I shouldn't talk about disasters though. The cat 2's had a big crash last night.