Cake!

Well, almost. We did get some top tens in the 3′s and the women’s 4′s, but no cake on the day no matter how hard we tried. As the day wore on it was windier and windier…..and we all took some lumps. C0ngrats to the winners.

We must at once recognize our fallen teammate, Atlin Sestrich, who – in his first ever road race – got caught behind a crash in the 5′s and played Superman, not realizing the pavement was kryptonite to his face. Our poor new developmental rider ended up in the ER with fairly substantial facial injuries and the usual attendant bodily contusions and scrapes. He’ll be off the bike for a good long while, and please join us in wishing him a speedy recovery. Get well, Atlin! That was a tough break in your first ever road race to go down that hard, especially when it wasn’t your fault, but we hope you come around quickly!

powerlines and sunshine…..and no rain – alert the press!

For our men’s 3 team it was a banner day, being all over the race and riding well to position Crawfy for a solid 5th place finish which earned him – most ironically – some Castelli gloves. Weird! We put two more in the top 20 with Dezellum and Monnig coming up good. Charlie Hustle awards go to Harwood and Willis who cut their own throats out there for the plan, as well as The Colonel, who really buried himself out there. Earlier efforts by Voytilla and Smith helped the cause as well.

The women’s 4 squad saw a lot of action whilst mixed with the masters 40+ field and strengthening winds, but overcame some stiff competition to get McCarthy a fine 7th place finish. In the mix were Clark, Krill, Pressey, King, Pedersen, and Willig.

awaiting the shattered remnants of Flights 666, 1177, and 1227 to arrive in the windstorm

The men’s 4 accidentally tripped the 4 tons of TNT someone had placed in the field with an ill-timed lap 2 attack, and the field blew to bits. Chunks of Cat 4 flotsam and jetsam was all over the road, but Gerow and Boeger cracked the top 20 after spending a lot of time at the front in the initial lap and a half.

Brody and Trevor dragging around a chase group

You can see a pile of pics here .

Great race! Thanks to Presto Velo for the event, and now we’re going to hibernate in our Cryo-Chambers and await the onslaught that is CHERRY BLOSSOM. We’re bringing 19 total riders to this shindig……hope to see you there, too!