Winter Cold Warmed Up for an Elite Junior opener in December.
Investment in the young ones is paying off now that they are not so young.
Strong and skilled they got down the road pretty good.
Climbing Cornell to Skyline and descending McNamee, Noa
h and Luca led us out while Pete Smith mentored. Tupac, The Badger and Daddy pushed with one hand , then switched.
Regulating tempo with easy gears, the team made good time out. And when they turned in on HWY 30, they caught everyone on the road.
Along the way we met friends who had preceded in The Lore. One was Kyle McTeague, a premiere climber who raced for PSU with Norrene Valente, Tim Bergmann, and myself.
He was tickled to meet the Junior boys and asked them questions about their cycling.
Our next rendevous was a pit stop to flip a stem, and at Westend we laughed with three guys who had raced with Cyclisme when it was "River City Montage," "GB Cyclisme" and recently with "RCB Cyclisme."
Mark Ontiverous, Justin Serna, and Chris Corno had al
l raced for Cyclisme at one time or another.Just Serna even returned and coached on Cyclisme and helped discover Alex Lightman and Trevor Spahr.
Mark let our guys do abs in his store, then bought everyone hot coffees or cocoas.
Getting out of the envelope was the order of the day, and whether our guys were racing scary or socializing sweet, it all came full circle to Cyclisme.
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