Gila--Day 4 Silver City Downtown Criterium

A few mistakes made, a few lessons learned. Lack of communication was today's mistake.
Early on, a break of 2 went up the road, and Cole was one of the guys. I know that everyone on the team was aware that Cole was up there, and we sat in the group, expecting the win. Where we went wrong was when two more guys jumped, we just let them go. Some of our guys didn't even know who had jumped, and it turns out that Walker (team 5280) was one of the guys, and he is a serious threat in the GC. A couple of us knew (including me) that Walker was up the road, but a couple of us didn't. The ones of us who knew, assumed that the rest knew, and failed to talk. Several of us where at the front of the group, but never made any formal chase, thinking we were ok with Cole up the road. Seeing that we were not gaining on the guys off the front, I was planning on jumping off the front at the start of the last lap. I was sitting about 5th wheel, and about 2 corners before the start of the last lap, my chain jumped off my chainring. The roads are very rough everywhere in Silver City, and my only explanation is that the chain jumped when I hit one of the many bumps on one of the slight downhills. This put me from the front to the back of the group, which was incredibly dissapointing. Steve, Kris, and Alex made sure I didn't get dropped, which was once again a great show of teamwork (despite our other mistakes). We all finished in the main group, and Cole ended up placing third. It turns out, however, that Cole had missed the lap counter, and had not realized that it was the last lap, and did not sprint for the finish. Bummer. Walker ended up winning the race, giving him the 15 sec time bonus, plus however much time he made on the group. I've yet to see the final results so I don't know the amount of damage he did. I do know that he will be ahead of me in the GC now, as he was only 3 sec behind me after yesterday's race. It will be tough to make up time tomorrow, but it is still possible. The most important thing will be to uphold Hamilton's lead, which is a lot smaller now.