The C.C.R. bike scene

well the wrap up goes like this

The 4/5 race was dominated by Guido and his three man break away that happened three laps in and eventually lapped the field!

Other than that, there was a touch of wheels on the back straight with three to go and a six person pile-up resulted! Dillon P separated his right AC joint! He'll be out for a while! Everyone else got off easy with cuts and bruises.

Ride safe!

Today was supposed to be warm. It ended warm but was 25* for the 9am race!

The cold wasn't going to stop CCR though! Gregg, Dillon & Joe P set out to do the 4/5 race at Plainville, and did it they did!

Pretty normal race except for the last lap when Gregg Ferraris proved that brains gets you wins. He single-handedly pulled Dillon & Joe around the last lap in a killer lead out. A lead out so effective that even Dillon (although leading out Joe P) got 4th and Joe P won the field Sprint! But alas, one lone rider was, unbeknown to us, up the road and took up the 1st spot.

Joe P *2nd*
Dillon P. *4th*
Gregg F. *Most killer lead out!*

The 3/4 race had our boys Maison, Ken and Joe P.
This race was pretty much owned by the cyclo-nuts... and rightly so cuz there was, like, 10 of em in that race. That's how it goes some times.

Next week. more 4/5 points and some 3/4 revenge!

This Saturday was the first race of the season! Plainville Spring Series race #1

The feeling is always strange going into the first race. Nervous, Don't know what to expect, Who's fast, Who's slow? Are you fast? slow?

Well, now we know.

The fist race went off at 9am. Joe P. went to that race and took 3rd! Someone got carted off in a ambulance with a broken collar bone! Joe P. was flying the CCR colors in that race solo cuz the team was more focused on the 3/4 race at 10 this week.
GREAT JOB JOE P. (Joe also raced the 10am race as well!)

Now on to the 10:05 race.

The riders from our team were:

Joe P.
Joe K.
Ken
Maison Chen
Dillon

And this is how the cookie crumbles.
The race was fast with some big names showing up. The avg speed was 26+

Dillon couldn't hang :(
Joe P was tired(from the 9am) but held his own.
Ken was in watch mode, he did well.
Maison was on good form and will be a force to recon with.(as long as he gets his zzzz's)
Joe K. was on from, coming off his 12 week off season training regimen (I'm doing it next winter). Whatever he did, it works!
He pulled in a break with 9 to go and then proceeded to ride away from a bunch of strong riders with half a lap to go. The other guys were looking around like "who's gonna pull me to the line" but when Joe K had 600m left he said "why is everyone going so slow? I'm outty" and Rode away from the peleton like it was in quick sand!
Nice 1st place from Joe K.
There was a broken Collar bone in the 3/4 race as well!

Today's count
2 broken collar bones
A 3rd place
A 1st place

Not bad for race #1 out of 7

CCR will burn the toast!