Hello Gang,
I want to start off with some past business. First I found out that last
week I was remiss in not mentioning that Nathan Williams placed 7th in the
Cat 15-16 junior race in Ontario. Good Job Nathan. Keep up the good work.
Our very own RS (Jonathan Edwards) was able to get his Cat III upgrade. It
seems that RS in typical RS fashion has actually been winning Cat 4 races
and he was a Cat 5 the entire time. When he sent in his resume he was
warned by the official but the quality of his resume prevailed and he was
granted his upgrade. He got it just in time to do a Pro 1,2,3 race in
Washington state. It appears that we have not given Jonathan the credit he
is due for Crit racing as he placed second in this race and Louie advised
me that there were quite a few top level Cat 1 and 2's in the race. Damn
Jonathan. At this pace he will have his Cat 1 before he gets his cat II.
I have to ask if you had your helmet on straight for the podium photo??
TNW
It was basicly rained out this week. The Chicken was there with a few
hardy souls but most of us opted to avoid the thunderstorms and catch up on
any tour scandals. Amazing that the Chicken will race at TNW in a
thunderstorm but has not been to a USCF race since Flagstaff. That is a
lot of training miles under the belt just to try and win the belt. It
seems TNW is more important than I thought.
Diamond Valley Road Race
I made the trek up to Reno this weekend to support the arctic squirrel in
his quest to become the NorCal state champion. The RR course was awesome
with two nice climbs in succesion. They were about the distance of the
first climb in the loop with a small descent in between. We had six laps
so that was six attempts to survive. The field was stacked with all the
top guys from Norcal there including teams from Discovery, Z-Team, EMC, and
Safeway. The first lap was tame with some long-haired hippy from Webcor
off the front. He got a nice gap when Discovery put six guys on the front
and shut it down. On lap three the ref relegated me to the back right at
the base of the climb for center line rule and I ended up getting gapped by
slower riders on the climb. I chased like a son of a bitch and got back on
to the field before the 4th time up the climb. I was tired from chasing
and ended up losing contact again on the false flat and had to finish in a
chase group. After all that I pulled my chase group around. With 3k to go
this moron from Marin started attacking the group. I told him that I was
not pleased that he decided to play Tour De France so I jumped him for the
field sprint with 500 m left and won. I ended up in 18th place for my
effort at winning the chase group sprint. Jay had a good ride and saved
his energy for the crit the next day for good reason. A Safeway rider won
the RR solo off the front.
Carson Valley Classic Crit
This was a great course with all new pavement and lots of corners and a
chicane just before the final straightaway. Discovery was all pissed that
they got beat the previous day and the field was stacked again. I was at
Jay's disposal for the day. The plan was to take him through the last
couple of corners and the chicane and drop him off for the sprint. I did a
lot of work early to negate some breaks and the attacks between Safeway and
Discovery were constant. This was by far one of the fastest Crits I have
done all year. There was a crash about midway through the race that Jay
was involved in but he was able to take his lap and get back in. I was on
the front riding tempo to let Jay recover and than it was get ready for the
finish. Mike Hernandez from Safeway and a Discovery rider took the crash
as an opportunity to get a break off of the front. The gap started to grow
and no one was chasing. I went to the front and rode some tempo to limit
our losses when Hernandez clipped a pedal and crashed out of the break.
This left the Discovery rider out on his own and Safeway had to chase. I
put Jay on my wheel and on the last lap we launched our attack to take over
the front. Sometimes things do not go as planned. I sprinted hard but
could not pass the Discovery lead out train but was able to get next to
them to put Jay about 5 wheels back from the front rider going through the
chicane. He sprinted out of the corner and placed 5th in the race. Nice
job. That was one hell of a train by Discovery. I just got put in my
place as I was pretty confident I can take over the front in most races but
it was not to be today. Jay did a hell of job to get himself in position
to place.
I did not get any other results this week and I know there was a race in
Long Beach and Lance was supposed to go to Super Week. If you have
anything to add go ahead and chime in.
Random Thoughts:
If you are in a chase group and the placings are up the road, attacking the
guys that have dragged you around for two laps is not cool. I would
normaly not sprint for an 18th place when all the money is up the road but
there is no way I would let that guy get the satisfaction of telling his
teammates how he soloed away from us after he sat on for two laps. Learn
some cycling etiquette. a
Jay has been battling the NorCal teams all year and doing well. I was
impressed with the level of competition at this race. That was a no joke
sprint. I will be looking forward to doing that race again. Great Job Jay
to get in the mix and get that placing. 8 on 1 is tough to beat.
Much respect was given to the squirrel this weekend by other riders. It
was easy to see that he has been showing off his sprinting abilities as I
heard several riders point him out as a fast guy to watch. I am quite
certain they were perplexed by the fat guy at your side. Lets take that
speed to Socal next year and win some money.
Chicken was out with the climbers this weekend getting ready for Gap. I
think he actually may want to avenge his loss to me from two years ago in
the BrianHead RR.
Mayo just got popped for EPO in the tour. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!! At this
rate, the PT gang may get an invite next year. I am not sure that Jonathan
will pass the blood test but we can not do worse than these clowns.
RS, the Chicken has a warrant out for your arrest for impersonating a Cat
I. Please turn in all steroids and doping paraphanalia to Bruce Balch and
continue racing in the 4's.
Ohhhhh did I tell you that the Squirrel is coming to Gap. Are you ready
Lance. You should be fresh off of Superweek and ready to play sprinter
guy. bring some of your team and lets make this race fun.
Did you see the photos of Chris DeMarchi in Road Magazine. Nice that a
National Publication gave some local racers some press time.
Special thanks go out to Jay's parents for the pasta, Tri-Tip and support
at the race. I am sure if Louie was there he would have hid all the food
in the house but since he was not I got to eat and actually rode a decent
road race. I will be practicing for the midget bike TT for next year so i
can win the bottle of wine. Jay's dad set up a course around the driveway
and gave us a midget clown bike to race on. Best time wins a bottle of two
buck chuck. Damn that squirrel beat me. RINGER
Jim Robbins
Team Leader
I want to start off with some past business. First I found out that last
week I was remiss in not mentioning that Nathan Williams placed 7th in the
Cat 15-16 junior race in Ontario. Good Job Nathan. Keep up the good work.
Our very own RS (Jonathan Edwards) was able to get his Cat III upgrade. It
seems that RS in typical RS fashion has actually been winning Cat 4 races
and he was a Cat 5 the entire time. When he sent in his resume he was
warned by the official but the quality of his resume prevailed and he was
granted his upgrade. He got it just in time to do a Pro 1,2,3 race in
Washington state. It appears that we have not given Jonathan the credit he
is due for Crit racing as he placed second in this race and Louie advised
me that there were quite a few top level Cat 1 and 2's in the race. Damn
Jonathan. At this pace he will have his Cat 1 before he gets his cat II.
I have to ask if you had your helmet on straight for the podium photo??
TNW
It was basicly rained out this week. The Chicken was there with a few
hardy souls but most of us opted to avoid the thunderstorms and catch up on
any tour scandals. Amazing that the Chicken will race at TNW in a
thunderstorm but has not been to a USCF race since Flagstaff. That is a
lot of training miles under the belt just to try and win the belt. It
seems TNW is more important than I thought.
Diamond Valley Road Race
I made the trek up to Reno this weekend to support the arctic squirrel in
his quest to become the NorCal state champion. The RR course was awesome
with two nice climbs in succesion. They were about the distance of the
first climb in the loop with a small descent in between. We had six laps
so that was six attempts to survive. The field was stacked with all the
top guys from Norcal there including teams from Discovery, Z-Team, EMC, and
Safeway. The first lap was tame with some long-haired hippy from Webcor
off the front. He got a nice gap when Discovery put six guys on the front
and shut it down. On lap three the ref relegated me to the back right at
the base of the climb for center line rule and I ended up getting gapped by
slower riders on the climb. I chased like a son of a bitch and got back on
to the field before the 4th time up the climb. I was tired from chasing
and ended up losing contact again on the false flat and had to finish in a
chase group. After all that I pulled my chase group around. With 3k to go
this moron from Marin started attacking the group. I told him that I was
not pleased that he decided to play Tour De France so I jumped him for the
field sprint with 500 m left and won. I ended up in 18th place for my
effort at winning the chase group sprint. Jay had a good ride and saved
his energy for the crit the next day for good reason. A Safeway rider won
the RR solo off the front.
Carson Valley Classic Crit
This was a great course with all new pavement and lots of corners and a
chicane just before the final straightaway. Discovery was all pissed that
they got beat the previous day and the field was stacked again. I was at
Jay's disposal for the day. The plan was to take him through the last
couple of corners and the chicane and drop him off for the sprint. I did a
lot of work early to negate some breaks and the attacks between Safeway and
Discovery were constant. This was by far one of the fastest Crits I have
done all year. There was a crash about midway through the race that Jay
was involved in but he was able to take his lap and get back in. I was on
the front riding tempo to let Jay recover and than it was get ready for the
finish. Mike Hernandez from Safeway and a Discovery rider took the crash
as an opportunity to get a break off of the front. The gap started to grow
and no one was chasing. I went to the front and rode some tempo to limit
our losses when Hernandez clipped a pedal and crashed out of the break.
This left the Discovery rider out on his own and Safeway had to chase. I
put Jay on my wheel and on the last lap we launched our attack to take over
the front. Sometimes things do not go as planned. I sprinted hard but
could not pass the Discovery lead out train but was able to get next to
them to put Jay about 5 wheels back from the front rider going through the
chicane. He sprinted out of the corner and placed 5th in the race. Nice
job. That was one hell of a train by Discovery. I just got put in my
place as I was pretty confident I can take over the front in most races but
it was not to be today. Jay did a hell of job to get himself in position
to place.
I did not get any other results this week and I know there was a race in
Long Beach and Lance was supposed to go to Super Week. If you have
anything to add go ahead and chime in.
Random Thoughts:
If you are in a chase group and the placings are up the road, attacking the
guys that have dragged you around for two laps is not cool. I would
normaly not sprint for an 18th place when all the money is up the road but
there is no way I would let that guy get the satisfaction of telling his
teammates how he soloed away from us after he sat on for two laps. Learn
some cycling etiquette. a
Jay has been battling the NorCal teams all year and doing well. I was
impressed with the level of competition at this race. That was a no joke
sprint. I will be looking forward to doing that race again. Great Job Jay
to get in the mix and get that placing. 8 on 1 is tough to beat.
Much respect was given to the squirrel this weekend by other riders. It
was easy to see that he has been showing off his sprinting abilities as I
heard several riders point him out as a fast guy to watch. I am quite
certain they were perplexed by the fat guy at your side. Lets take that
speed to Socal next year and win some money.
Chicken was out with the climbers this weekend getting ready for Gap. I
think he actually may want to avenge his loss to me from two years ago in
the BrianHead RR.
Mayo just got popped for EPO in the tour. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!! At this
rate, the PT gang may get an invite next year. I am not sure that Jonathan
will pass the blood test but we can not do worse than these clowns.
RS, the Chicken has a warrant out for your arrest for impersonating a Cat
I. Please turn in all steroids and doping paraphanalia to Bruce Balch and
continue racing in the 4's.
Ohhhhh did I tell you that the Squirrel is coming to Gap. Are you ready
Lance. You should be fresh off of Superweek and ready to play sprinter
guy. bring some of your team and lets make this race fun.
Did you see the photos of Chris DeMarchi in Road Magazine. Nice that a
National Publication gave some local racers some press time.
Special thanks go out to Jay's parents for the pasta, Tri-Tip and support
at the race. I am sure if Louie was there he would have hid all the food
in the house but since he was not I got to eat and actually rode a decent
road race. I will be practicing for the midget bike TT for next year so i
can win the bottle of wine. Jay's dad set up a course around the driveway
and gave us a midget clown bike to race on. Best time wins a bottle of two
buck chuck. Damn that squirrel beat me. RINGER
Jim Robbins
Team Leader
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