I pretty much got my ass handed to me

John Whiting had a tough experience in Spokane this weekend.

After finishing 2nd last week in the beginners category, he tried out the men's B this week. It was 30 degrees in the early morning so he got a taste of december racing.

Enjoy!

Haha well I tried out the Men's B race and I pretty much got my ass handed to me. I started off pretty horrible in the back and then went down around one of the corners which isn't too great of an excuse considering Justin, Charles, and Michael caught up to me despite a pretty nice wipe out and flat among themselves. I can sure say those fifteen more minutes do make a difference. The course was relatively fast, but at several points was extremely bumpy, there were a ton of puddles/pot holes which were interesting, one damn root which I nailed and screwed up my front wheel, the run up was nice, and there was one basically forced puddle which got everything real nice and cold in addition to the less than desirable temperature to begin with. Although it sucks that I need to get a new wheel, the race was fun, and a definite learning experience.

Racing resumes this weekend in Walla Walla!

Parents Weekend!!

Awesome ride on friday with Eric, Saturday's ride had two huge groups, out past cottonwood and back on powerline, we spiced it up with one sign sprint and so good double pace lines as we came down from hood. Perfect day, headed over to merchants after the ride for a coffee and donut. Sugar is good

One more ride today and then back into cyclocross style....race in walla walla next weekend, below, straus prepares his pain face for the race during a training session at the stanger farm a few days back.

Alpenrose Cyclocross

This weekend was sick! Great racing conditions. Check out images at photo gallery, plus video clips on multimedia page:

Men's D : Wardog - 5th

Men's C : B_Kearns - 2nd PLACE

Zac Strode '08 - 6th

Dave Radler '08 - 11th

Men's B : Ben : 1st

Women's B : Zephyr : 3RD!!!!

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Thanks again to Barb and Bob Radler for the wonderful homestay, you two rock! and we'll see you in a month or so.

Next Up: Stanger Farm / Rooks Park - Oct.31/Nov.1

Portland GP Warmup Race - Nov.8

Alumni Weekend!

Welcome all Alumni!

Our team ride today went out valley grove, massive tailwind on the way out! Bridget Humphrey '84 joined Zephyr, Molly, Philip and I for a solid ride. Be sure to check out our table at Reid Campus Center on Saturday from 1-2pm, you can check out sweet team gear for sale as well as jump on the teamsupporters listserve and get monthly / biweekly updates from the team throughout the year.

Team Rides (accomodate all rider abilities and bikes): Saturday 2pm-3pm

Sunday 10am - 11am

** Meet at Reid Campus Center**

If you need a bike - be sure to check out Allegro Cyclery - they have well priced bike retails,

the wheat fields are too good to miss this time of year!

Full info page here:

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Stanger Opens

We took off to the farm today for cyclocross practice, the course has some new elements this year with a berm turn leading into the first river crossing with a super steep run out, a shorter lap in general and a MUD pit (but that will come later!)

Ben Hayes and John Whiting had some fun practicing on some real barriers. Allegro's Justin and Mike were out, as well as host Charles so it was awesome!

Can't wait for next week.