Wednesday Night Crit #1

The first to give it a go...that's me, second from the right.

Tonight my bike racing team, Team LaS'port, tried its first attempt at a mid-week training ride that mimicked conditions of a real race. The Wednesday Night Crits started up with ten riders in 50-degree temps in the dark...well, we had street lights...and it went pretty well. Basically, the course was back-and-forth on this stretch of wide road near a manufacturing/technology park...about six-tenth's of a mile per lap with two 180-degree turns. Being as this was my first real speed work of the new year, I decided to do about 35 minutes of hard effort and then just ride a bit to keep the tired legs loose. I'll have plenty of other times to increase my endurance for this kind of ride and I didn't need to blow it all out tonight. But it was fun. I did a couple of jumps, made people chase me, and in return I did a lot of chasing. It was easy to get tired but the cold weather kept everyone feeling somewhat fresh.

Craton, owner of Bikes, Etc., was there and gave out a gift certificate as a door prize. That was nice of him. His shop is very interested in getting involved with the bike racers and triathletes in town and he seems to want to walk the talk.

I got some work done this week. If you go to SlowTwitch.com at their triathlon forum section, you might catch a banner ad for CobbCycling.com that I worked up. The banner pops up at various times when you enter the site.


At the Cobb Cycling website you can see all the pics of the saddles that Paul and I shot last October for the website which is now officially open. Now go buy a saddle so I can get paid for my work!!