The Spring Fling officially opens the cycling season in the Southeast and the Ball Watch Cycling Team was there in full force. With newest team member Curtis Long setting a blistering pace. The course is designed for early season fitness thus making it hard to get any splits in the group. Curtis would have none of that just roll along and field sprint. Around the half way mark Curtis set out alone to test the waters. Shortly after 3 more riders would join him to set up a strong breakaway. GS Palm Beach felt nervous with Curtis up the road and sent one of their sprinters after him allowing Kurt Phillips to tag on and bolster our numbers in the break. Now with every strong team up the road it was just a matter of rolling off the last few miles and start attacking each other. One small detail was over looked. Even though all the teams had strong numbers; some teams did not like the idea of both Curtis and Kurt up the road and started to chase. With about 5k to go the field would come back together. In the end and massive group sprint would see the boys all roll in the top 15 and take the team lead in points on the first day. With the weather heading down hill Sunday's RR would loom as a critical race.
The Train Rolls on!
The Spring Fling officially opens the cycling season in the Southeast and the Ball Watch Cycling Team was there in full force. With newest team member Curtis Long setting a blistering pace. The course is designed for early season fitness thus making it hard to get any splits in the group. Curtis would have none of that just roll along and field sprint. Around the half way mark Curtis set out alone to test the waters. Shortly after 3 more riders would join him to set up a strong breakaway. GS Palm Beach felt nervous with Curtis up the road and sent one of their sprinters after him allowing Kurt Phillips to tag on and bolster our numbers in the break. Now with every strong team up the road it was just a matter of rolling off the last few miles and start attacking each other. One small detail was over looked. Even though all the teams had strong numbers; some teams did not like the idea of both Curtis and Kurt up the road and started to chase. With about 5k to go the field would come back together. In the end and massive group sprint would see the boys all roll in the top 15 and take the team lead in points on the first day. With the weather heading down hill Sunday's RR would loom as a critical race.
