Weather: 80 degrees, Sunny and Humid (Just the crap I hate racing in)
Attendees: Me (Not sure why since this race is great and close to Providence)
Course: 4 loops of 10 miles. Start is uphill on four rollers for about a mile and half, hard right downhill with awful S curve, At mile 3.5 is “THE [...]
Attendees: Gewilli, Jerry, Curtis “Not Skinny” and me
Weather: mid 50’s into low 60’s. Mild wind
Course: 45 miles which was 4 circuits with one big climb
Prerace: Luckily I came early since I had a flat rear wheel and my trainer was in pieces. Stayed calm and got everything done in time.
Race: Felt good and for once [...]
Attendees: Casey in Cat 3 and myself.
Weather: Start was 50 degrees and pouring rain. Tailwind for first half of race and headwind for the second half. Rain stopped after about mile 20 and got humid.
Course: Race around the Quabbin Reservoir – 62.5 miles. I would call it hilly although there were no major walls, but [...]
Weather: low 40’s, windy in finishing stretch, light rain at time
Attendees: Gewilli, Not Skinny, Greve and Sponsor
Course: usual Ninigret but on a slicker surface due to cold rain.
Race: Combo 3/4. Probably half and half was the composition of the field.
Usual crit start. However,I fell to back to try to get my cleats in the pedals [...]
Weather: Rain low 40’s, Cold.
Not enough people showed up so it was a combined field with a couple of cat 2’s and the rest split between 3 and 4.
Distance: 28 miles
Prerace: Did what I thought would be a warm up ride of 25 miles but since it wasn’t raining at the start, I was soaked [...]
Attendees: Nate and myself in Cat 4 and Casey in Cat 3
Weather: 60 degrees with very strong gusty winds at times which gave me a wind burn on my arms. Made half the course very difficult to be in the front.
Prerace: Decide on no warm up. First 10 miles are pretty boring and didn’t want [...]
Weather: 30degrees but very windy. Wind chill was maybe 25. Tempted to wear winter jacket for the race. Instead full leggings, winter gloves etc..
Course: Same
Attendance: Me with about 40-45 starters
Race: No one could survive today off the front on a perfect day without some help. I wasn’t willing to help though to conserve for tomorrow. [...]
Weather low 50’s but very windy on the backstretch.
Attendance: At least 50-60 with some more Cat 3’s mixed in including Ben Reagan who has an awesome kick and could be a 2.
Race: There were about 6 primes. I didn’t bother with the first one but contested the rest for the most part. I led out [...]
Weather: Perfect. Felt Like I was riding naked practically
Course: 1.3miles up and down with a hard 90 degree left to uphill finish/start.
Attendance: Me with 60 strangers. Decent mix of top guys including cat 3 mixed in with a bunch of slackers
Race: Was at front most of race to avoid the yahoos and get in a [...]
Attendees: Myself and 4 actual teammates, Brent, Marcus, Geoff and Mark
Weather: 65 degrees with a nice breeze. Rained for about 3 minutes at one point during race.
Course: 44 miles comprised of two loops of 22. First 5-6 miles are pretty much downhill to a reservoir, then a sharp right to a pot holed road with [...]