Grant's Tomb women 3.18.06
Our first chance to unveil our secret weapon—the Maginator.
25', windy on the back side, about 25 women on the line for a 45 minute crit around Grant's Tomb. I love this race for pretty much no good reason as I've never had a very good finish here. But I like the little hump of a hill, it's good fun.
Maggie & I were the only two TBW riders in the field, but CC and Advil were out in force. We decided to sit in and see how things went for the first half, a slightly rotten theory that showed its flaws when Anna Milkowski (in town for the collegiate race) took off around the second lap with Caryl Gale of CC and Emma (now with Advil) in tow and we were nowhere near the front. A flurry of people tried unsucessfully to bridge right off the bat, but things had settled for a moment when Betty Tyrell flew up the right side of the road. Maggie roared after her, and the two of them got within a few seconds of the leaders. They weren't able to close the gap though, and ended up in no-man's land for the rest of the race, just barely in sight of the pack which never really forgot they were out there.
Anna eventually dropped Emma and then Caryl, to take the win*. Maggie outsprinted Betty for 4th, and I straggled in somewhere around 13th. 17th. 92nd. Something like that... But it was still excellent fun and a nice start to women's racing in New York.
See loads of pictures of Maggie (and everyone else, but not really me) at nyvelocity.com. (Thanks, Andy!)
* Anna then continued her day with 2nd in the Collegate Women's A race and a pack finish with the Collegate Men's A's. Nice riding.
25', windy on the back side, about 25 women on the line for a 45 minute crit around Grant's Tomb. I love this race for pretty much no good reason as I've never had a very good finish here. But I like the little hump of a hill, it's good fun.
Maggie & I were the only two TBW riders in the field, but CC and Advil were out in force. We decided to sit in and see how things went for the first half, a slightly rotten theory that showed its flaws when Anna Milkowski (in town for the collegiate race) took off around the second lap with Caryl Gale of CC and Emma (now with Advil) in tow and we were nowhere near the front. A flurry of people tried unsucessfully to bridge right off the bat, but things had settled for a moment when Betty Tyrell flew up the right side of the road. Maggie roared after her, and the two of them got within a few seconds of the leaders. They weren't able to close the gap though, and ended up in no-man's land for the rest of the race, just barely in sight of the pack which never really forgot they were out there.
Anna eventually dropped Emma and then Caryl, to take the win*. Maggie outsprinted Betty for 4th, and I straggled in somewhere around 13th. 17th. 92nd. Something like that... But it was still excellent fun and a nice start to women's racing in New York.
See loads of pictures of Maggie (and everyone else, but not really me) at nyvelocity.com. (Thanks, Andy!)
* Anna then continued her day with 2nd in the Collegate Women's A race and a pack finish with the Collegate Men's A's. Nice riding.
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