FLCC> Tuesday A's

[Joseph Bailey]

The only time I felt like I was recovering was up the hill last night.  Everyone really stepped up and kept the pace high.  The second lap was fairly controlled down White Church.  Up the climb, some of the Cornell guys and Plumb started to push the pace again.  Having not ridden since last tuesday, it took everything I had to hang on.  I chased a little, talked a little trash, and rolled in at the back of the front group completely spent.  Kudos on the sufferfest.
 
Lowfat> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 11:39:56 -0400> To: flcc at icycle.org> From: gs37 at cornell.edu> Subject: FLCC> Tuesday A's> > David opened the bike shop for me so I could come out and play (at least > for one lap) with the A's on the Brooktondale course last night. There's an > awful lot of young blood out there these days, and they can go pretty dang > fast...The comforting thing is that when push comes to shove, there are > still some old guys who are too tough to get rid of, and too smart to rule > out for placings.> Things started up right away with flyers right from the gun. Even better > was that no sooner did any breakaway group get caught than someone else > would go flying away on a counter. This is what Tuesdays are all about. You > try a break. You get caught. You stuff your lungs back down into your rib > cage and hang on to the back of the group for a few minutes. You start to > feel almost human. Time to attack again ! Matt Plumb got in lots of > stunningly fast accelerations. Jake lit more than a few rockets. Ernie > Bayles and Nick Robertson drove some pretty fast groups. Andy M got in a > few good licks. Andy Getzin motored along with me after the Coddington > climb. Brian Lee drove the bus too. (These tri-guys are fit !) There were > very few riders who didn't have a go at the front at some point in the > race. As we came up out of the dip at the end of the first lap it was time > to play strategy...Andy M was drilling it up the hill with Matt Plumb > trying to close the gap. I slid up to Matt, expecting to have a long line > of sprinters on my wheel. Instead there was a bit of a gap, so I passed > Matt and took a moment's rest on Andy's wheel. We were going to give it a > shot and see if we could make it to the line. Andy got on the back as I > took a long pull. I knew I couldn't make it to the line, but Andy had > recovered enough to take another hard pull. Matt was not having to push as > much wind, but getting him to the line ahead of what I assumed was a > charging field was taking a huge effort on his part as well. At 200m to go > he was on his own and as I sat up a rocket named Ernie Bayles came flying > by. Matt held on to finish first with Ernie at his heels. I slid in for 3rd > and a tattered field rolled by moments later. Matt collapsed on the road > after the line, so I suspect it was at least as hard for him as it was for > me. This is comforting, since I was pretty tired after the effort. I can't > imagine that Ernie wasn't blasted from such a finishing effort as well.> I had to run back to the bike shop, so I wasn't around for the 2nd lap, > but I bet it was another good one.> > Glenn> > > _______________________________________________> FLCC mailing list> FLCC at icycle.org> http://icycle.org/mailman/listinfo/flcc_icycle.org
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