Yellow Springs Grand Prix

August 18, 2004

 Rider Team Place Field
Savage Hill Cycling Team Archive 
1st 
Cat 1-2-3 
Savage Hill Cycling Team Archive 
3rd 
Cat 1-2-3 
  Ryan Gamm: 1st, Cat 1-2-3
Ryan Gamm
 
Yellow Springs was a cool little hippie town, the course was about 1K long with some nasty pavement sections.....there were less than 20 in the field, so I was reading early break real fast.

4 min into the race the break went, rish and I in it, we had some cat and mouse with the other 4 guys, including Marco.....I knew I had to get away from the group in order to beat Marco cause that boyz got a crazy sprint, so i did, 15 min into the race, he made a bridge attemp, which I thought he would, but didnt make it, which was good. I solo'd for about 40 min for the win, rish and Marco came in 2-3 about 40 seconds back, I lapped the remains of the field and pulled them around for about a half hour.

There was some sevre negative racing going on, mainly Citco and Unizan (sp?) seriously, not cool, grow up and learn to race childern

We had both Tom and John Minturn in for the race, John was racing, Tom was home from school (School= Vet school at St. Kitts Island which is somewhere near heaven ive heard)

there were some hippies gettin loud and rowdy on the course, always fun

at the start of the race i was pretty nervous that something bad would happen to me during the race because in the previous 48 hours I was stung by two bees out riding as well as crashed by myself on a training ride (yes i know, im an idiot!)

After the race I got about 5 hours of sleep then got up early and took the GRE, I really think that was more taxing than the race was, kinda sad, the brain is a sponge and the GRE just dried mine out......only one way to fix that!!!!!

Crit natz with Rish and Grimm this weekend, its gonna be rockin.