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you've got nothing really to think about but
doing everything right. It's a little heavy
when you're not used to it, but the crowd
aetually kept me really enthused. Once I
could get the noise out of my head, I could
pretty much ride pretty smooth."
It took Windham until lap seven to
advance his position from fifth to fourth, as
he and Ramsey both went around Wey.
Then Windham immediately put Ramsey
back a spot.
"I got luckywhen I was passing Nathan:'
Windham said. "I almost landed on him. He
messed up in the whoops, and it was really
close. I tucked my head and figured I was
about to eject off, but Igot by him."
Amazingly, by that point on lap eight,
Reed was already running seventh after putting on a tear through the pack.
At the halfway point, LaRocco had over
three seconds on Vuillemin, and he was
beginning to feel quite confident as to the
eventual resu lt.
"The first I0 laps are tough, because it
takes about that long for everybody to sort
themselves out:' laRocco said. "I was kind
of lookingaround at about the halfway mark
to see where these two guys [Windham and
Reed) were, and I saw that I had a distance
on them. At that point, I kind of went from
really trying to put my pace on to just riding
without mistakes."
Itwas also just past the halfway point that
Vuillemin began to fade fast.
"I just rode behind laRocco for a long
time, and he was running really good, but I
just got tight," Vuillemin said. "My arms
were pump ing up and swff, and I couldn't
hold on good . I faded so bad, so I'm kind of
embarrassed to show that ."
Windham caught Vuillemin first, making
the pass on lap 15 in the turn before the
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