Well, I guess we can start with team practice on Saturday. The team met at Spain Park High School in Hoover, AL @ 7 am CST. Spain Park is the primere location of the finest criterium known to man, the Hoover Crit.
Some of our teammates are new to the crit scene and some are still not sure if they if they want to race the crit. So, we made about 8 laps around the course to get a feel for what's coming on March 15th. Keith Kittinger, our Tri-guy, was zipping around on his Cervelo time trialing with a broke collarbone making us all look a little ridiculous. After practice Brad, Larry and Wes went for a longer ride through Oak Mountain State Park to do some endurance training while Mike and Justin continued with a good tempo ride around the school. The Quik Chix had other reservations so they went their seperate ways and that was saturdays practice!
Fast forward about 30 hours and Team CCR was at the starting line of the Winter Training Series Part II. We raced the "C" class on a beautiful day hovering around 70 degrees.
The race started out relatively slow because the mileage increased to 30 this week and no one really had a gauge on how hard to peg it. The pack sorted out after the first lap and it was time to focus on who wanted the win bad enough. During the second lap there were two guys that wanted to break out but the peloton remained constant crusing around 30 mph at most. Near the end of lap two we were well represented up front with Brad, Larry and Stacey but there was one strange thing. Justin was there! What in the world is Justin doing in the front on his first road race ever on a borrowed Lemond Zurich, he's a mountain biker. So, somehow Justin is the lead man for like......ummmm......a second. Then, you guessed it, he gets swollowed by the peloton, AMATEUR! The third lap was pretty much the same but we lost Justin. It all came down to the sprint and Brad, Larry and Stacey all finished in the top 10 and Justin, Josh and Mike called it a good training day. Good job guys! Photos
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