Sunday Team Ride

We had a total of 10 riders on the Sunday training ride, a good group that rode well together and rode smart, we actually got a day of base mile training in with not a lot of off the front flyers! We did the Wrightstown loop so we could benefit from a tailwind ont the return trip, got in just over two hours and somewhere in the range of 40 miles...depending on whether or not you rode to the parking lot.
Heading south on county line road, group did a nice job working together in to the wind, one of our better group rides as far as not killing each other early in the year!

Rolling into Wrightstown and Lanser attempts to cheat the wind, into his areo tuck, we are almost to the "tailwind" part of the day.

As we rolled into DePere we just had to detour for a little Euro spin thru the two lane round-a-bout, so pro!

A good day on the bike, thanks to all who showed up and rode, our own team and the Performa team (Jesse representing). I hope we can ride with Performa from time to time, nothing wrong with the two teams working together and riding together during the season. thanks for passing the ride on Paul and thanks for riding with us Jesse.

Roll call for the ride...Schindel, Devroy, Warren, Borst, Steve B., Paul, Lanser, Livingston, Hauser and Jesse, too bad the rest of you we not able to make it....next time!

Plan on same time and place next week, I will not be there but you all can still roll, I will update the ride later in the week.

Belize Boys

Just want to update you all on a couple of our former team riders, Ryan Baumann and Cole House, both have had early season success in the country of Belize. Early in the year Cole finished 5th on the overall GC for the Tour of Belize, while riding for the USA Jr. Devo team, and now just a few days ago Ryan went down and got a win.

I believe Ryan was racing a one day 254k road race, not sure on the exact name of the race, but he broke away and stayed away....soloing in for the win 6 minutes up on the rest of the field.

Nice job to both guys who have strong ties to our team over the years, way to make us all proud up here in NEW, next time you see Steve....make sure you thank him for giving Ryan the right set of genes!

Like I pick any of the other photos Ryan!

A good point!

Go check out this little video, pretty cool! Thanks Ryan B. for the link.

http://view.break.com/470052

Team Ride #1 (Chilly one)

Schindel getting ready to drop the hammer, or just making sure he is in the photo! A nice group of 11 riders hit the road for the 1st official team ride of 2008, we put in about 2 hours in the somewhat chilly temps.
We rode the Thornberry loop including the Swiss Alps and Little Italy, the group kept the pace up pretty decent and at times the group blew apart and a recovery re-group was needed. My only fear is that some get discouraged and decide the group riding is not for them, I think we should be OK though, we just need to work keeping a more consistent pace and learn to do a better job when in the pacelines (especially in the windy conditions when the line is needed).

I think everyone was pleased with the ride, about 32 miles for myself so it was a nice distance on a rather chilly and deceiving day with the bright but not all that warm sunlight.

Pretty much says it all, great road conditions right now around the area! Nice job to all that showed up, we will not ride next week with easter, so the weekend of the 29th we will resume the team training rides. Stay on the bike and get in shape, so when we hit the road in two weeks we can crank it up a little, right!

Have a good week all, ride on!

Team Ride

Hey All -

Group ride this Sunday at 11am, leave from He-Nis-Ra parking lot and put in about 2 hours! Come all....Don says Go real soon!

Be there.

Ta-dah

Tops and bottoms, what ya'll think! I am thinking pretty sweet. Don't forget about Chequamegon and Iceman entries, deadlines for both coming up real soon....March 15th.