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Hello Sports Fans. Welcome back to the show. I’m back[note: this is a watered down version of the rant which got me fired from my cycling team, because I truthfully pointed out how they happily lost every race they entered, and never tried to improve on our lackluster results.  It wasn't personal I was just frustrated.]

Friday:
Awake 6am.
6:15 start riding 40km with pack-sack for van to Mt. Holly
7:30 showerd and eating Annie’s pancakes
8am errr 8:45 by the time Maggi shows up… start the Toronto to Jersey drive.
8:51 start reading ‘the DaVinci Code”
noon o’clock I see traffic light
6:30 pm, arrive at hotel
Sat
10:30am Sat start Mt Holly road race
11:24 traveling at 60km/h on a straight road some JIT’s cause about 20 riders to hit the deck. I superman over it virtually unscathed, but the old C-dale, gets it’s Top tube dent enlarged, broken front wheel, bent/ cracked rear, bar and break adjustments please. Great that was fun! Kubas was in the same crash, though he gave up waiting for me to get my bike fixed, we got to watch the finish of the race later.
12:00 Handing out bottles beside Crockett in the feedzone
2:12 I checked out (5min) the inside of America’s oldest Fireproof building (do you really think that this is the first stone house they ever built? Allegedly so!)
3:00pm Bowker won a case of beer, and we head to subway for lunch
2am Back in Canada, up to Page 405 on DaVinci, showering, and getting ready to sleep on the floor
Sunday
9:15 Awake, cerealed, ‘new to me’ tires, and front wheel for the 30km ride home
3 pm Nap
5pm Head out for some intervals, to get 21h of Van and 19h of Jersey out of my legs, and actually haul balls up the climb
10pm $55 entry with $125 for the win and 2h of driving through holiday traffic is too much.

These qick time video’s might take a second to load. I drank coffee and watched MTV this morning….

Shallow Pool Video

The Videos each take around a minute to load. Your screen will read ‘Done’ but still remain blank… keep waiting it’s worth it.

mad moves video

Bike Racing for Professionals: 101

Part A
-As a rider on a pro team, your primary JOB is to win bike races.

-If you are in a break that you can’t win, your Job is NOW to ensure the failure of Breakaways.

a) If you have an attacking/ break away type team, roll though, but once the gap is 1min30 or 2 minutes sit on. You want to keep the gap small so that your boys can bridge up. You should still be fresh to help them out once they get up there, and make sure that the gap is manageable (they can’t go solo across 4min).
b) If you, actually, have a sprinter, or don’t think that your boys will be able to bridge, sit on the break from the gun, and ensure its failure.
c) Above all it is very important that you DO NOT GET DROPPED.

Part B
Tune in Next week to learn how to lead out your sprinter, so that it actually works

Vocab: (for Mom and Dan)
JIT= Junior in Training
Fred = An aged JIT

Cheers,

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