by Justin Brown

Well Shaw has left me to explain how the day went in New Jersey. Well, put bluntly we took 1st and 2nd. The course was just perfect, The pavement very smooth and because of this the lines were very fast. Shaw went into a break for about 5 laps or so and I sat back and monitored the front. Everyone was working for a sprint and because of this, the breaks were going to have a hard time. When things got back together it was pretty much status quo. It would string out for a lap or two and then come back together then string out again etc. During one of the primes Shaw found that he had position at the front and he

attacked and held it to take the prime.

Okay, so, coming into the last lap I got up to the front with Chris and he attacked. I grabbed a bridge of 4-5 guys. When we caught Shaw he took a quick breather, I got on his wheel and he upped the pace again. We dove through the last turn at 30+ mph. Things were totally strung out at this point. I did something that Mike Sherry suggests doing when in the lead with another teammate coming into the sprint. I let Shaw get about 2 bike lengths on me and then I started my kick. The people behind me were gapped as the sprint was flat (my kind of sprint) and Shaw kept powering to the line. I won and Shaw held second! As for the race itself it was awesome. Podium girls, lots of swag for winning etc….