I went back for more ~~pain~~ fun at the Tuesday night road crit. There was no cloud cover this time, so the temperature at the beginning of the crit was 102. Yes, you read that right, 102. I would take a drink (of Carborocket) and immediately my mouth was dry and I needed more. However, on lap 3 my thirst suddenly was of no importance. There was a 4 person crash in the front of the peloton and body, bike, and water bottle dodging was the key. It looked like an explosion had occurred, stuff (and bodies) was everywhere. All 4 men were bloodied and banged up. Needless to say the peloton stopped. One guy's head was bloody, there was one guy that possibly broke his elbow and they all had nice road rash and ripped kits. It made me rethink wether I'm going to keep going to these. No commitment either way today.
After a few minutes a couple of us realized that we weren't needed anymore so we went a few blocks west and continued on our own crit. We did 10 laps up there. My garmin file shows the whole story with beautiful graphs.
Jason D. Miller photographs these events, but he may not put any up for this week's crit due to the crash.