First Stage of My First Stage Race

 I began my first stage race by competing in this mornings B4K criterium around Daybreak.  I've been recovering for the last week from the flu so I was really worried about how I would feel but so far so good.  My goals were to get through this opening race finishing in the lead pack and not crashing.  All goals accomplished though there were several very close calls and 1 major crash that I was able to avoid.  The course was interesting since it used the roundabouts in Daybreak with the intent of making the corners safer but they had to it to reduce it to 1 lane which made the turns tight and fast.  Currently I'm about 7 seconds off the GC lead and with the road race portion tomorrow I'm hoping to do even better.  I feel like I've got plenty of energy left over so we'll see how it goes.  The time trial portion will be tomorrow night and it's the final stage and since I don't have a time trial bike I'm pretty sure I'll loose a lot of time, but still, it's worth the experience.