October 31, 2006
Yargo Cross in the News
Fort Yargo Cyclo-cross on Cyclingnews.com
October 29, 2006
Yargo Cross a Success!!!
A record number of participants results in the largest cyclocross race ever held in Georgia to date!
GTC members came together in an awesome display of teamwork to create a race venue, run the event, participate and clean up like real pros.
Bev's photos
Trish's photos
Georgia-cross.com
October 27, 2006
Firefox 2
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Arrived about a week ago. Looks like pages load faster. A lot of the functions that could be added via extensions in past are now integrated into the browser, for example the spell check feature.
October 22, 2006
Cross Racing in Augusta
Mud and rain was the setting for our cyclo-cross race in Augusta this Sunday morning. The Masters 35+ group started at 10:00 AM followed about a minute later by the Masters 45+ group. I had a fast start and took the lead right away which was good because the first obstacle came within a few seconds. Quickly clearing the two wooden barriers, remounting, getting right back up to speed and a gap began opening back to the second rider.
I didn't see it but the second rider, Lamar, was chasing hard and over-cooked the first high speed turn plowing through the marking tape and careening off course. My lead expanded and before the end of the first lap I had some riders at the back of the 35+ group in sight. I must have been riding well because I eventually caught and passed all but the top several riders in the 35+ group.
The course was deteriorating as the saturated ground was being churned up by the tires. In spite of the worsening conditions my lap times varied by only a second or two each lap. The fifth of six total laps was my fastest, probably because of better gear selections and line choices, not a harder physical effort.
In the end, I stood on the top step of the podium with two teammates at my side. Second place was our newest teammate and recent recruit, Torre Smitherman, who is a dominating mountain bike racer in the summer and this was his second ever 'cross race! Third place was a fierce battle won by teammate Jim Behning, with some very impressive racing. Following closely in fifth was Wojtek Wysocki, who came to race in spite of having out-patient surgery just the day before.
October 17, 2006
cyclingnews.com
Okay, now I'm walking around with my head all swollen and chest pumped up. The premier source for English speaking cycling news in the world is cyclingnews.com, and they have posted the results and some photos from our cyclocross race in Conyers, GA last weekend - and I'm in one of the photos!
My friend, fellow bike racer, photog, online journalist and web-mistress of southeasterncycling.com, Trish Albert, submitted the results and some of her awesome photography and now we are world-wide!
Check it out y'all, Dan Coy on cyclingnews.com
October 15, 2006
Conyers Cross - Brief
It was cold, like 35 degrees, when we started out this morning. The race course was not extremely technical but hard and L-O-N-G! I was not feeling 100% but still managed to be in the action and finish in second place, about a minute behind my teammate, Gerard. I was satisfied.
Leading the second lap.
The family matriarch, Marie. Great-Grandmother, Grandmother and Mother-in-law.
Bev took some more photos, which are posted at http://gtcbike.org/gallery/album07
October 14, 2006
Pirate Skull Carving
Rachel, Bev and I got together last night and carved a pumpkin. Well actually Rachel and Bev cleaned it out and later roasted the seeds, meanwhile I serenaded on the guitar. I helped with the design and Rachel did the carving. Meanwhile I watched, sipped tea and played the guitar, Bev pruned the nearly dead bonzai tree which she rescued recently.
October 04, 2006
Crystal Cross Trophies
Cash for the Expert categories, trophies for the Sport categories, and medals for the Beginners. Here's what the 2006 Fort Yargo Cyclo-cross trophies look like.
October 01, 2006
Sunday CX Practice
Usually about 10-15 riders come to the Cyclo-cross practice o Sunday mornings at the "Secret Training Location". In recent weeks some of the families have been coming along as well, after all there are playgrounds for the kids and plenty of cycling action to watch.
