By Phil Mooney
Two of the Yahoo! Cycling Team Elite men made the podium
The Yahoo! Cycling Team boys lined up against a stacked field of 152 cyclists from all over the nation for 6 laps of a brutal 27 kilometer circuit in Bend, OR. This race was the big one – the Elite National Championship Road Race. The team’s plan was to be represented in the early moves and save a couple guys for the final time up the infamous climb up Archie Briggs road. The entire team worked well together to execute this plan.
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By Adam Switters
Coming off a great first half of the year, the Yahoo! Cycling Team geared up for the second half of the season using the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic as perfect preparation for the Elite National Championships in 3 weeks time. I was personally excited as I knew I had good form despite the setbacks in training from finishing school and sickness. All in all, six of us — Evan, Vinny, Tyler, Phil, Ryan and myself — made the trip up to rainy Hood River, OR to test ourselves against some of the best bike racers in the nation.
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By Ryan Parnes
Ryan Parnes takes 3rd at the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic Prologue
It turns out I like short fast prologues. Who’d have guessed? It was pretty much dark by 8:52 when I started the 4 mile course, and the constant rain on the oil-slicked PIR motor speedway made some of the corners pretty harrowing. Earlier riders finished with two seemingly contradictory things to say, “A couple of times I felt my wheels slipping out,” and, “I wish I’d gone faster in the corners.” Tyler gave me a last minute pep-talk while Haldane swapped wheels for me. He said, “The first gnarly left-hander has a pit lane on the inside, making it look a lot tighter than it really is. Its an optical illusion. You can rail it. No guts, no glory.” So with that advice in mind I lit out. » read more
