State RR Championship
Bad MF's - just not today
Aggress had a strong team at the State RR. Elijet, Beto, Leo, Kurt and Mike in the Cat 3 race, Jim in Cat 4, as well as Doug in 60+ and Rick in 65+.
In the Cat 3 race, Kurt was the only one to make it over the first series of hills before getting shelled on the final hill. He would mop up 7 riders on the way to the finish outsprinting all but one to finish a disappointing 12th. The rest of the crew did a team ride and came in after a good training session.
Jim would do too much work on the way out and did not survive the hill storm at the end finishing 24th with the main group.
Rick had the strongest Aggress showing finishing 3rd and Doug came through solo in 9th.
Vuelta de Enology
Aggressors:
Doug Perry and I, on behalf of Aggress, endured two days of intense enologic cycling training this past Friday and Saturday. Spousal accompaniment was deemed prudent in the event we buried ourselves in our work with too much intensity. Our training intervals varied in intensity from 6-9 one oz tastes per cycling dismount. Remount and continuation become more problematic as the event progressed and was exacerbated by the absence of a Team support vehicle. Nevertheless, we dug deep and found within ourselves the will to carry on, in due course completing Stage 1. We refueled and carbed up at Viaggios, got a good nights rest (mostly), and arose ready and eager for Stage 2. At our low point during Stage 2 we needed some inspiration to carry on and thus availed ourselves of the opportunity to commune with Jimi (No, NOT Riccitello, Hendrix). We finished strongly and readily credit Aggress training for the iron discipline necessary to finish at all. Less prepared riders could literally have been dropped.
Rick E.
Masters with podium babes
[Photo Credits to Liz Perry]
