On Monday I was a bicycle commuter, on Wednesday I signed in the WVU Cycling team and on Friday I was at my first race! An incredible and dense week! The experience was so intense that few words cannot even describe it... or maybe my scratches can do it!! Lack of experience mixed with a little bit of excitement brought me to make few mistakes.. always ended in a fall!! But it's part of the game.. and as the sage said" if you never fall, you'll never learn". Wisp is an amazing place.. and I can't wait to go there again!!! So different tracks, a beautiful point of view of the mountain across Maryland and West Virginia.. My season was pretty short.. just enter the team for one amazing race.. (my leg are still saying fortunately only one!) But at the end of the weekend I learned so much things that I'm so eager to improve and learn much more from the mountain bike world! There's an entire year before next one, and with the help and suggestion of the guys of the team I believe I can do much better next time!!! In the mean time I love to enjoy the trail around Morgantown! But for sure I need a better bike!!! Cannondale will be the first choice!
Daniele --- Daniele Littera Graduate student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research Assistant West Virginia University Cell: +1 304-777-9941 e-Mail: [email protected] LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/danielelittera -----Messaggio originale----- Da: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Per conto di Jonathan Zerbe Inviato: lunedì 18 ottobre 2010 2.45 A: [email protected] Oggetto: Re: [WVU Cycling] Re: Blog posts/Anecdotes Example: This season was a whirlwind of feelings, and a little reality slap in the face. It was my first time promoting a race (our home race), which I hope to do again (and hopefully better) in the future. It was also my last collegiate race season (Phd not going to happen) after being off and on since 2003. Coming in 2nd in the ACCC championship was a disappointment but it was a hard fought season. It was my first race season back from ACL surgery, and I was slower, but much more popular. I loved hanging out with the other teams in the conference. One of the coolest things all season was seeing the NCSU course marked with hardcore "Zerbe Options", that made me feel better than any podium result. And even if I wasn't on the starting line someone would say "Zerbe gets the holeshot" even though I was usually bringing up the rear. Other highlights was racing my new Cannondale Scalpel Carbon and getting 2nd in the Super D at VT on my first day riding it. Similarly, the first day riding my Cannondale Moto built up with a Rockshox Totem and a Truvativ Hammerschmidt was for a sweet mass start Super D that landed me in 2nd once again. I loved making the Super D course and hearing all the racers be so stoked once we all crossed the finish line. Also clearing the table tops every lap of the short track race was funny too. Wisp is just such a gem of a venue. Anyway, I hope that next year the team can take all this upcoming fresh blood and pump it out harder than all of us old and lactic legs like mine. And hopefully Collegiate Nationals will be in West Virginia for the next two years! Jonathan "Ol' Shot" Zerbe On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Fastest Fat Kid <[email protected]> wrote: > btw y'all, that was me above. > > On Oct 17, 9:22 pm, WVUCycling <[email protected]> wrote: >> this is especially important if this is your first time racing a >> bike...it shows the sponsor that we are growing the sport. >> >> On Oct 17, 6:47 pm, Emily Moy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hey, >> > For all of you who raced mountain season, I would like you to write >> > a paragraph -- something short, maybe 100-250 words (but it can be >> > longer if you so wish), on how your mountain season went. It's >> > really important for our sponsors. We'll compile it for our >> > sponsorship newsletter and for our blog. The more of you who do this, the better sponsorships we get. >> >> > If you need some inspiration: >> > what did you expect? >> > what were your goals? >> > how was it compared to your expectation? >> > what was your favorite aspect? >> > what was the most challenging? >> > how was your bike? >> > what did you learn? >> >> > Email it to the team account by this Friday night please. >> >> > Emily
