FLCC> Tuesday night -- another awesome outing!

[Stan Mcfall]

well, don , your assesment of my riding is pretty much on......but we were 
taking it easy on the way out...we had some beginners with us as 
well......some in our group did not know the yellow diamond thing so that 
got explained and then some wanted more paceline work...so we designated 
withchruch for paceling work which we started out slow to have them see how 
its done and by midpoint we were going at a pretty good clip and toward the 
end of WC a group saw a yellow diamond and took off..about the same time a 
couple of something fell of jack R's bike, i figured that dons group was 
behind and jack would not be alone for long so wee kept going (sorry jack) 
we had some go for the yellow on the coddinton hill, i took one yellows 
after but one of the new guys almost cought me....we had a good group and 
had a nice ride.....burns sucked but it always does for me.....see ya's 
next week.
stan





At 02:20 PM 4/16/2008 -0400, Donal Fitterer wrote:
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>The parking lot was full last night with many new and seasoned riders 
>eager to get on the road. Daniel K took on the leadership role in Glenns 
>absence. We had a quick set of announcements and I stated that my group 
>was heading to B-dale for some yellow diamond sprints and I wanted the 
>same group that I had last week. Daniel seconded my emotion.
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>As Sara was begging for Hollenbeck  volunteers I noticed that my front 
>brake cable was slipping. I asked Aqua Man (aka Nick R) for an allen key 
>and instantly busted the binder bolt! No front brakes for me!
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>I moved off to the side with my arm in the air to gather my group and was 
>immediately surrounded by a bunch of guy racer types in full kits asking 
>where I was going again and what I was planning. Stan the Manand Jim 
>LipsMetzger came to my rescue and took off with the testosterone fueled 
>group towards our flat race venue.
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>Ruth, Christine, Beth, Aileen, Daniel and I clustered up and waited for 
>riders ahead of us to exit the lot. A young man named Dominique was a new 
>enough newbie to gain access to our exclusive club. We headed out Pine 
>Tree and I had to soft pedal to keep from catching Stan and Jims group. 
>Once on Rt 79   we started a double pace line. Again, we had to slow down 
>because the other group was dawdling. This was probably caused by the fact 
>that Stan hasnt been on his bike for 2 years.
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>We stopped near the sand pits just before our normal starting place and 
>reviewed what we had learned last week. We then discussed the art of 
>sprinting (in which I readily admit I am not very successful). I leave a 
>summary of the lesson plan to Christine as homework. Hopefully, she will 
>present what she heard to the list which should be fodder for interesting 
>discussions.
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>Our plan was to have a group of 3 or 4 riders (with Dan in one group and 
>me in another) pace line in front of the sprinter group. When a yellow 
>diamond was spied either I or Daniel would lead out the sprinters who 
>would then decide when they wanted to come around the lead out man. This 
>worked fairly well in the beginning. I had Aileen, Christine and Beth in 
>my group. Christine was top dog at the beginning. Aileen and Chris had one 
>awesome sprint trading the lead 3 time before Christine took the win by 
>inches. Beth was uncatchable once we hit the flats on Coddington. Cracker 
>Jacks Rueckheim joined us just as we got up to Coddington.
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>Daniel will have to fill in what went on with his group. I do know that 
>Ruth spanked Mr Jack when they faced off one on one.
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>Before we went on to Coddington we stopped and discussed how to take the 
>corner. The short answer is not to race the corner and allow the group to 
>come around safely before sprinting off. Again, it would be great if one 
>of the listeners shared what they heard.
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>Everyone was pretty toasted by the end of the ride especially since I had 
>them climb up the 11% grade on Burns Rd.
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>A good time once again!
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>Cheers,
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>Don
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