Tour Ohio -- Delaware

June 11, 2005

 Rider Team Place Field
Savage Hill Cycling Team Archive 
8th 
Cat 1-2 
Savage Hill Cycling Team Archive 
Field 
Cat 1-2-3 
Savage Hill Cycling Team Archive 
DNF 
Cat 3-4 
  Ryan Gamm: 8th, Cat 1-2
Ryan Gamm
 
So I don’t get nervous much before races but when I do (much like everything else) I don’t screw around with it, anyway I hadn’t been this nervous since the last time I had to go out to the bars with, well lets not get into that...

Delaware, its a state and also a city, but this Delaware was not a city in that state, something to ponder during 55 laps of a one K crit course, kinda like being a in a washing machine but without the soap and water but with bikes and pavement, where was I going with this?

So anyway, first day of Tour of Ohio after moving into my new place in Cbus 3 days before, I could feel every bed, couch and box I moved during the opening laps, I am a huge sissy, anyway things were sketchy, we really didn’t try to do anything today other than stay alive, which is always good, NatO and Rish gave me a pretty good lead out while the 60 races fought over Marco's wheel, which might have been a better idea

I had a bunch of friends at the race, which is 1) awesome 1) never happens C) impossible to explain what a Stage Race is IV) did I say awsome....anyway this meant I had to try and get a result, the finish was sketchy, I rocked in a HUGE 8th place (sarcasm) but I didn’t crash, which is a plus

Number or guys that didn’t finish ahead of me yet still were so aggressive with 4 laps to go that he hooked me with his bars in the chest thus tearing my skin suit = 1

Number of people that mess with MY skin suit = nobody

Number of days I have left to mess with this guy = > 8

That’s all I got, we have a house warming party tonight, I bet ill be pretty screwed up after my 8th or 9th shot of water, kill.
  Jay Truesdell: DNF, Cat 3-4
Jay Truesdell
 
pbbbtt! I guess no season is complete without a DNF, I remember doing well on this course only once. Don't really know why that is either. Pretty frustrated.