Lea Valley junior winter series-road race

Today I had my first junior category road race, I had a great start and positioned myself well in the bunch, there were a few attacks early in the race but I worked hard with the rest of the Peleton to chase the attacks down.
On the 5th out of 12 laps I attacked.
I managed to surprise them and get 50 meters before anybody realised i wasn't in the peloton any more however without anybody to work with and with a group of 7 riders all of whom were both older and more experienced than me, the gap was soon closed.
up to the final lap the race was a game of cat and mouse between single riders and the peloton, there would be an attack and it would be closed then another rider would attack, it looked like it would come down to a sprint.
on the final lap everybody spread out coming up to the final hill i opened up with 300 meters to go, maybe a bit early, 3 people over took me just before the line and as i went over another rider snuck past me,
however for my first junior race and the youngest in the race i was very pleased with my overall performance. thanks to zone3 for my glasses and jwct for money towards the bike i raced on.