http://www.velonews.com/article/82006/bahati-miller-claim-pro-crit-crowns-in-downers-grove
Tibco’s Brooke Miller again outmaneuvers Tina Pic (Colavita-Sutter Home) to add another jersey to her closet.Last corner, last chance
Two weeks after winning the road race national championship, Team Tibco’s Brooke Miller again outmaneuvered Tina Pic (Colavita-Sutter Home) to add another jersey to her closet.When Pic jumped heading out of the penultimate corner, Miller jumped too, figuring the race was now a race to turn eight. She beat Pic to the corner, took a wide turn that had many convinced she was bound for the hay bales, and then held the lead all the way to the line.
"I went up the left so I could take the inside of the [final] corner and so [Pic] would have to take the longer line and couldn't take it as well," Miller said. "She slowed into the corner, and I barreled into it. I felt pretty confident when I was first out of the corner that I would be first to the line."
(L-R) Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Verducci Breakaway), Brooke Miller (Tibco), and Jenn McCrae (Advil-Chapstick).Miller counted on Saturday pro-am winner Lauren Franges to lead her through the final laps. "I'm always completely relaxed when I'm on her wheel because she knows exactly where to go. She just weaves in and out of riders. I feel like I'm on a little trailer dragged behind her."
Defending champion Pic, who finished sixth, said she hesitated heading into that crucial turn because of the memory of a last-lap crash here.
"I had visions of 2006," she said. "I braked. There was just nowhere to go. I thought she was going to crash into the barrier, so I just backed it up and three or four people came on the inside.
"I guess it's just crit racing, isn't it?"
Click here to read about Brooke's win in the National Road Race or here for a great shot of Brooke on the front.
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