Rick is having some email difficulties so he asked that I post this to the club.
----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: "Tony S." <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:29 PM Subject: Tuesday ride report... > We had 8 riders tonight: Lou, Dave, Carlos, Tony, Bert, Logan, Steve, and > myself. A pretty good bunch, and the prospects for a great ride were > promising. > > Bert had suggested that we use tonight's ride to work on rotating > pacelines > since the group was under 10 riders, and all were in agreement. The plan > was to > take 30sec. pulls along Patterson; 15sec pulls along Cheek, and, 5sec > pulls once > we hit Hereford. The basic ride rules are still in effect; that is, if > anyone > wants to attack after we hit Patterson it is perfecty acceptable. Not > adviseable, since the group will be working together, but acceptable. > > It was a great idea. We all worked together, and, after a few adjustments > I > think that we did well and it made it feel as though the miles went by > much > quicker. Once we hit Burton things began to get frisky because we all know > that > there are sprint points at the end of the road. A break did occur with > about 4 > of us and Dave leading the way, but it was Steve who had the burst that > no-one > could answer and took the 2pts. > > We got back together until the first hump on Patterson, and then Tony put > in an > attack that only Steve answered. They created quite a gap, but the chase > could > see that Tony was not holding Steve's wheel and it was clear that they > were not > working together. When I got to the front this gave me confidence that we > could > reel them back in, and we did bring Tony back, but Steve made it to 98 > without > getting caught. He should have received points for this, but Patterson and > 98 is > not a prime. Good effort, Steve! > > Not much happened going up the Doc, which was a surprise. No attacks; no > surges, > until we got closer and the attacks came. The guys were getting on Logan a > bit > for not taking his turn at the front, but no rider is obligated to do this > once > we open things up. Getting to the primes first is the goal, and Logan rode > smart > enough to take the final prime at the Doc and Leesville. > > At the end it was all Lou. We went up Hickory Grove at a pace that did not > take > enough out of everyone. With about 600 meters to go Logan went and > everyone > followed. But, I think that he mis-timed his attack and Lou blasted out > and took > the win for the night and the 5points. Nice job. > > Points: > > Logan...............20 > Dave................9 > Steve...............8 > Lou.................6 > Rick................5 > Chris...............3 > Keil................1 > > I know that I am missing some results, but unless anyone has been keeping > their > own totals this is pretty close and what I will be going with hence forth. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you foolishly subscribed to the Gyro email group. To post useless drivel to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] We love reading 3000 line messages so please don't bother trimming your replies. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
