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This race report is By Capt Josh and found on the Unofficial Cruzbike Race Board: It is looking good for Thursday as Low Drag has a full roster for the first time in our history. They are gonna rock. No longer fighting to stay off the bottom. This week's goal is to be the fastest Mocha team without a C racer on the roster! Moving on up! We still have room for racers in High Speed.
High Speed Race Report – Sept 17, 2020
This week, the WTRL TTT took us through three laps of Astoria 8 Line in New York. Luckily, this route is all on the ground, but that does not make it easy. The course covers the length and width of Central Park with quite a few steep climbs on every lap.
High Speed came out with a really good team consisting of Jim, Ken, Matt, Rob L, and Josh. This week we had a mild wait time of only 5 minutes and luckily that left us with a few rabbits to chase down. During the wait time, Josh made sure everyone had at least a general knowledge of what the course was going to entail.
The team shot out of the gates and quickly rejoined on the course. Most of these riders have been riding together for weeks / months now and are use to how each of us starts. Josh continued to give on the course updates about what was coming up. The team could see the Coyotes on the map with the time to them slowly ticking down. We passed the Coyotes in the first lap; a few on the second climb as part of the first loop and the rest a bit later.
We knew our brothers in Low Drag left 3 minutes ahead of us, so we kept an eye out for them. Low Drag was riding really well and it was not until almost halfway through the race that we caught them heading back across the length of Central Park!
During the second and third laps, we had a team come from behind us; TFC. They passed us just before we passed Low Drag. We then caught back up to them and passed them back by the spring banner on the same lap! Sadly, that did not last long. Just as we were kicking up the pace to pass TFC to avoid their draft, Jim had a trainer power drop. We had 4 of us in front of TFC, but our stronger rider was now 25 seconds behind us! We told TFC to pass us back and slowed up for Jim to catch us. Jim caught back up with us at the start banner for our third lap.
On the third lap, we hit the first loop. This loop has two big climbs. Josh let the team know that if he was dropped, they were to keep going; perhaps Josh needs to do more riding so he stops getting dropped. Up they went on the first climb and in the last 100 meters, the split happened. Down the team went with Josh trailing by several seconds. Before the next climb though, he was able to pull through and lead the team into the climb. Unfortunately, it was one climb too far. The team pulled away during this climb with the front 4 riders.
The rest of the last lap was uneventful. Josh switched his camera to the lead riders and kept up the encouragement as well as course layout. The team performed flawlessly. At the end, High Speed finished 21 out of 41 with a time of 1:02:07. We were hoping for just under 1 hour, but it wasn’t to be this week.
High Speed Race Report – Sept 17, 2020
This week, the WTRL TTT took us through three laps of Astoria 8 Line in New York. Luckily, this route is all on the ground, but that does not make it easy. The course covers the length and width of Central Park with quite a few steep climbs on every lap.
High Speed came out with a really good team consisting of Jim, Ken, Matt, Rob L, and Josh. This week we had a mild wait time of only 5 minutes and luckily that left us with a few rabbits to chase down. During the wait time, Josh made sure everyone had at least a general knowledge of what the course was going to entail.
The team shot out of the gates and quickly rejoined on the course. Most of these riders have been riding together for weeks / months now and are use to how each of us starts. Josh continued to give on the course updates about what was coming up. The team could see the Coyotes on the map with the time to them slowly ticking down. We passed the Coyotes in the first lap; a few on the second climb as part of the first loop and the rest a bit later.
We knew our brothers in Low Drag left 3 minutes ahead of us, so we kept an eye out for them. Low Drag was riding really well and it was not until almost halfway through the race that we caught them heading back across the length of Central Park!
During the second and third laps, we had a team come from behind us; TFC. They passed us just before we passed Low Drag. We then caught back up to them and passed them back by the spring banner on the same lap! Sadly, that did not last long. Just as we were kicking up the pace to pass TFC to avoid their draft, Jim had a trainer power drop. We had 4 of us in front of TFC, but our stronger rider was now 25 seconds behind us! We told TFC to pass us back and slowed up for Jim to catch us. Jim caught back up with us at the start banner for our third lap.
On the third lap, we hit the first loop. This loop has two big climbs. Josh let the team know that if he was dropped, they were to keep going; perhaps Josh needs to do more riding so he stops getting dropped. Up they went on the first climb and in the last 100 meters, the split happened. Down the team went with Josh trailing by several seconds. Before the next climb though, he was able to pull through and lead the team into the climb. Unfortunately, it was one climb too far. The team pulled away during this climb with the front 4 riders.
The rest of the last lap was uneventful. Josh switched his camera to the lead riders and kept up the encouragement as well as course layout. The team performed flawlessly. At the end, High Speed finished 21 out of 41 with a time of 1:02:07. We were hoping for just under 1 hour, but it wasn’t to be this week.
