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And You Wondered What Made Greg So Strong In The Saddle...

That's a Quarter Pounder of speed right there.

Greg Takes 1st In Dixon Crit

Greg just rode away with first in Dixon. Good setting and good weather. Felt like it wasn't too hard, but averaged 275 watts. Now just chilling with my Pedialyte waiting for the next race to get started.

Ready for Indoor Training 2010?

Met with Proctor yesterday to discuss preping the facility this year.  All looks good, and like it's going to come together for a November 1st start date.  New this year will be our location and some really cool audio/video upgrades.

The official announcement will be coming soon...

State Road Race

Recap by Colm Flannery...

Saturday was the Illinois State Road Race Champs in Willow Springs. I spent most of the day there. Results aren't available yet and were only partial on the day - official placings may change.  Here's a recap - I hope I haven't missed anybody.

The short version:
6 Proctor riders: 1 win, 4 top 10s.

Sprock's Pre-race Preparation in St. Louis

Love the bumper sticker.

Gateway Cup - Day 3 & 4

Not getting clipped in at the line sucks.  Started at the back, and worked my ass off to slowly climb through the 100+ field.  Corners were dreadfully slow, followed by hurculean sprints on the straights.  Zink got away with three to go, only to succumb to the uneven, rough corners. Bohm and I thought our positioning was good, but underestimated the size of the field.

Gateway Cup - Day 2

Beer helps ease the pain of starting a lead-out 1/2 mile from the finish. Just too damn excited to be on the final lap with Zink on my wheel. Usually he's somewhere off the front, and I'm off the back. Only Bohm was in the money... if you can call it that. $5 wouldn't even buy a round at Schlafly's afterwards.

Pace was high, positioning being the key. Only had one moment of concern when I was driven into the barricade with 3 laps to go. Fortunately the barricade had a banner over it that kept my bars from hooking it.

Tomorrow will bring better results.

Gateway Cup

Experienced my first crash ever in a crit tonight. Did the typical flip over the bars, and lucky for me landed on some other poor bastard. Broke the front brake lever, but then, who needs a front brake?

Zink made a couple breakaway attempts, but got reeled in each time. Pace was nutty fast. Average was 27mph and that was with a crash and noodling around to the neutral support. Only way to move up was on the outside. Believe Zink was top 20. Sprock was probably top 30. I was a few back from Sprock. Bohm was a few back from me.

Time for a couple beers and some pizza.

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