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Race Report: Turtle Pond 2010 cat 3: GG Bavolar Works The Break
The real race report is on the team blog. I have just a few short comments. Nonsense really.My job was to either get into an early move, and then if the early stuff failed to stick, sit in and sprint. As always, if we got a man in a promising break, I’d control the front, breaking up any chase efforts and sitting on and thwarting bridge efforts.As Gary states in his report, I expected
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Winding Trails Fat Tire Classic–How Many Ways Can RMM Suck in One Day?
I’ve been busy. Too busy to train. In fact, my training calendar was so sparse earlier in the Spring that I considered hanging up my road season instead of repeatedly wasting time and money in getting dropped out of easy races. More on that after Turtle Pond next weekend. Mountain bike racing is different. Even if you finish DFL, you still get to complete the race and feel like you did
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Sh– Happens–Thoughts on Crashing
The unspoken truth is that we all crash eventually. Some of us more often than others. If you race for long enough, dumb luck is going to run out and the odds are going to get you.Sometimes it is entirely your own fault, as when we overcook the final corner in the last lap of the local criterium. Other times it is clearly someone else’s fault, like when that idiot overcooked the final corner
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Race Report: Myles Standish Road Race Cat 3 Race 2010
CB had largely boycotted Battenkill, though our cat 3 teammate, Ryan O’Hara podiumed without the help of teammates. While Ryan was riding to glory, the rest of the CB cat 3’s were attempting to dominate the Myles Standish. We showed up with 4 rested and ready riders: Spaits, GG Bavolar and CB new jack Dave Montes. I was not meant to get into a big break. My job was to cover the early moves and
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Race Report: Miles Standish Road Race Cat 3 Race 2010
CB had largely boycotted Battenkill, though our cat 3 teammate, Ryan O’Hara podiumed without the help of teammates. While Ryan was riding to glory, the rest of the CB cat 3’s were attempting to dominate the Miles Standish. We showed up with 4 rested and ready riders: Spaits, GG Bavolar and CB new jack Dave Montes. I was not meant to get into a big break. My job was to cover the early moves and
