Downers Grove Eye of the Storm

I went out to Oak Forest Nature Preserve yesterday for a nice easy ride with a couple openers in preparation for tonight's Pro-Am in Downers Grove IL. This race is prior to Sunday's Elite National Criterium Championship. Crit Nats has been a goal of mine for about 3 years. Once I figured I had a crack at getting my Cat 1, I marginally fixated on this race ever since. So with the upgrade in the bag and my first time being eligible to do this race I figured I should make this trip to Chi-Town to give it a whirl. I used the title "eye of the storm" because there's been quite a flurry of preparation, travel and a little stress getting here...so Now an easy ride before the real action gets cranked for tonight's event.


and when I mean easy I mean easy...Yes that's 63watts.

Toyota / Cycling Team pb GCCA '10 Sneek Peak?

These photos just surfaced:






This appears to be the Toyota Venza driven by Toyota / Cycling Team pb GCCA parked high enough to catch some Austin skyline.






Matthew Mahon, local Austin hot shot photographer could not be coaxed into telling us what the photos were for.






Is this the team we think it is, cause there appear to be FOUR pairs of legs!?

We hope to find out what this is about soon.....

Rockwall Criterium

After a night of pedalling around on our bmxs, cruisers and basket bikes on the east side and watching films at the Bicycle Film Festival, Toyota / GCCA members Jed, Joseph and I set off early Sunday morning to Rockwall, TX in hunt for some upgrade points for Jed at the 60 min Rockwall Criterium.



.9 mi course, four turns, very exposed, with some stiff headwinds after turn one.



A Kelly Benefits rider took the heat from the street and set a fire to the field. This would be a day of the gutter. If you were too far back, the gutter was your race course. If you were on the front, better like to ride in the wind.

Our only objective today was to get Jed some upgrade points. Without making any excuses, not one of us made the ten man break that included Kelly Benefits, Heath Blackgrove (THSJ), Bret Crosby (TX Tough), Andrew Dalheim (Metro VW), etc. This was truly the winning break and we were left out in a field of riders content to let time tick away the "getting dropped from the race" on their to-do list.

Jed managed to sneak away with a few riders and I later bridged up with "Surfer" Nick Kiernan (TX Tough). Surfer and I broke away with 3 to go as the leaders lapped the field and Joseph surfed with them up to Jed's group.

Surfer and I decided to drag race it to the line. It was the noble thing to do and I was impressed I didn't get completly smoked. Jed won the field sprint while Joseph took 3rd at the line.

12th, 13th and 15th. Not the results we were hoping for but the team dynamic is coming together and we hope to pull off a big surprise at the upcoming Austin weekend and TX Tough!!




Time for some lunch.

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