San Luis Obispo Downtown Crit

Wow, this crit was a blast. It's the most fun I've had racing a four corner crit in a long time. The course was a little less than a mile long, had a slight up-hill on the back-side of the course, and a slight down-hill on the finishing straight. The only sketchy part is when you went through the courtyard of the mission. There was a slight chicane that pinched riders on either side.
The race started off fast. Right after the whistle blew they announced we were on our first prime lap. It didn't take long for the usual suspects to launch off the front. I tried to bridge up to one break, but decided to sit up instead of towing an additional teammate of a rider that was already in the break. Anyways, I'm not sure my legs could have made it that far. I have to stop second guessing myself and just go for it. The worst that can happen is I pop and have to sit in for the rest of the race. I really need to try and be more aggressive.
After my half-assed bridge attempt I drifted back towards mid-pack to recover. Then some how I ended up at the back of the pack. I slowly worked my way back up. The best place to do this was on the down-hill. Most people wanted to stay out of the wind and recover.
I didn't do much until we had 10 minutes left in our race (it was a 75 minute race). I slowly started working my way up to my teammates who were towards the front for a majority of the race. I did a good job of holding my position near my teammates, that is until I almost got stuffed in a barrier going through the mission on the second to last lap. I had to slam on my wussy breaks and lost about 10 spots.
I almost got back up to my teammates, but my legs were pretty tired going up the slight-hill on the last lap. I don't think I could have done much even if I had made back to them.
I foolishly started my sprint out of the last corner, which was probably 500m from the finish line. I made it halfway before I had to sit down. I probably would have kept going if I knew that prizes went 20 deep -ooops.
I ended up finishing 26th. Not too shabby for my 3rd p1/2 crit. I'm slowly learning.