Goose Creek Cycle is proud to have supported the University of Kentucky Cycling team for the past few years, and it looks like this season is going to be another great one. This weekend was their season opener at Murray State and they guy pulled down the win on both days of racing despite a screw up with one of our distribuertytors wherin all their race wheels showed up as tubulars instead of clinchers. Anyway, I have taken the liberty of copying a portion of team captain Drew Lavey's race repoet below:
Murray State Collegiate Race Weekend
Saturday, February 27, 2010
After a night in a tightly packed hotel room full of 7 riders, 7 bikes, and all the appropriate gear we rolled out of “bed” and enjoyed a nice breakfast provided by Whole Foods of Lexington Green. We headed to the race course of the day, which was a relatively flat 2 lap course totaling 32 miles. After a very short warm-up, our race started with a rolling start. For the first lap we sat in the peloton waiting to make our move. The first lap was controlled by the Purdue team and the second lap the IU team took a turn keeping pace but in the last 5 miles our team took control. We picked up the pace substantially which strung out the peloton. We had our team out front with Ian Baker, Scott Ashcraft, and Patrick Sims taking turns pushing the pace. With less than a mile to go there was a crash splitting the front group in half. Then the other riders in our group started to try to make their moves for the win but Luke Avery and I covered everything they threw out. With about an eighth of a mile to go Luke began the lead out for me. After he pulled off there were two guys in front of me but I new I had it. I jumped on the second rider’s wheel. The first rider ran out of gas as we entered the final 100 meters then I kicked it in crossing the finish line inches in front of the IU rider.
With the first race of the season I was a little skeptical to see where my and the rest of our team’s fitness would be but as I expected it was there. We worked flawlessly together for our first race making the rest of the season look very promising.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Sunday morning we had our criterium. The race consisted of a 6 corner ¾ -1 mile loop for 30 minutes. The first 10 minutes of the race were pretty quick with the riders at the front trying to weed out the tired/newer riders. After about 15 minutes the race started to slow down a little bit. Our team took a few turns at the front trying to position ourselves for another win. With 5 laps to go that pace really picked up again with Patrick Sims and Ian Baker taking some good turns at the front while Luke Avery and I sat back a little bit waiting for the right move. Going into the final 3 laps Luke and I were sitting third wheel, we held our positions still waiting for the right time to strike. In the last lap with three turns to go a few riders started to pick it up. We covered them and held our position after the last turn we knew we had it again. I began the lead out for Luke with just a few meters to Luke took control and sealed another win for us. For this race we took first and second finishing a perfectly planned and implemented weekend for racing
