oh yikes RE: the women's field.
Ya I was fairly close to VC in GC after the RR, but let myself get gapped in the crit which I sort of regret, just for ego reasons haha. I latched on at two to go after my second and final attack, and it was hard having to go around gapped/gassed riders just to get the pack time haha.
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