Veteran Masters Deardorff and Word!

        

 Dominion! 

By these seasoned veteran Masters throughout the season, but especially last weekend at the Masters Track Champs on the Alpenrose velodrome, their performance was stellar! It saved the team while big Master's teams picked up spots on the BAR.

Randy Word won the Gold in the Pursuits for 40-45year old Masters for a little over four minutes work.

Chris Deardorff won the Silver in the Match Sprints where he has been an inspiration to us all for many years now.

1 Word Randy Word-RCB 04:05.47 Randy Word also took third place  in the Masters 40-49 Points Race,  winning Bronze. All of Randy's success comes the night after  Chris Deardorff turned in  an unprecedented,  and timely performance  in the Kilo TT, winning Gold! 1 Deardorff Chris Word-RCB 01:16.12 Chris Deardorff, often thought of  as a pure power sprinter  has stretched himself to suffer  in a whole new house of pain (Brian Aber's Coaching).  Beating Bike Central's superstar  Stephen McLaugry  couldn't have happend on a better day!

Saturday Development

Going 

out 

to 

Troutdale 

into an 

East breeze, with new folks and 

crazy juniors

has never been easier, thanks to 

some great "bull-dogging " by Men of the Cyclisme Racing Program.

Throwin blocks, pulling through, pushing on backsides up hills made the development happen with a keen nurturing 

tempo.

Everyone had fun and we got done quick. Alex really drove the front. Jake and Bedford pushed up the back, while Cameron managed the Juniors.

Guests were treated to power bars by Bedford, and yoga by Jake.

They just might come back after that.

More Photos from BEER's track race

LEGACY

ENDURES


Brujo and other photog folks took some great shots of us doin it, and TV Show guy Dan Kaufman

even made 

a 

professional video. 

Revealed as always is our team unity.

As well as, the power of our big dogs, and the timid, but potent class of our first timers.

One can also see the legacy of our program and it's importance to a peloton leading America.

Having scored well in three divisions, we are lucky to walk away from BEER not seeing double.

Flipping for Team-rides

A  

simple 

Sunday 

team 

ride 

back in my schedule reminded me how much I like to be a Directeur Sportif.

From the breakfast gathering before, to seeing Half Fast in the Hood, to the kid  inserted into the adult paceline, to the flippin yoga!

I love it!!

I love the tempo and the camaraderie. It's a relevant adventure, as opposed to the much bigger and mandatory adrenalin jump of racing.





I felt like we did some good Sunday. 

I sure enjoyed being out in Troutdale, seeing the Sandy, and hearing Ethan Word whoop it up.

It was goooooood!

Thanks, from the President's Corner

This year has been a tremendous success already for the adult and junior Cyclisme racing programs. After you read this post, scroll down as JB has been adding a lot of content lately.

Our program is greatly benefited by some people who work largely behind the scenes, or are simply time crunched and we don't see them at a lot of training rides or races. Fergus Kinnell and Csaba Kormendy in particular have been a huge help with the financial and equipment side of the program this year. They have donated and loaned bikes and equipment, transported bikes and racers, and have worked hard to secure equipment donations from others to both the junior and adult race programs. Next time you see them, say "thanks".

Now, on to the next part of the season. Some will ease into rest and recovery come Fall, while others are ramping up intensity and technical skills training for cyclocross. Sunday Team cyclocross rides will start soon. 2-3 hours on gravel/dirt in Forest Park helps with basic loose ground cornering and riding, with good spots for interval training. Weeknight/evening skills rides at local parks will help with the dismounts, remounts, barriers, and running aspects of the discipline. I'll post a schedule here on the blog and also on the listserv.

Greg

Cat.5s Reprecedent Baby!

Firsts 

all 

the way 

around.

Well, nobody won the omnium, but there sure were a few firsts.

A first time for the Juniors in a big men's mass start event, a first for Bobby Dixon in a mass start where he won some big points sprints, and Aubery's graduation to Team Star status, finally with a full crew to command were just more building blocks of a dream. 

Everyone set up the next guy. The Juniors attacked early, while B. Dixon followed the chase, and Aubery E. finished up.

Unfortunately the officials got confused about who was who.

Leadership exists in all sorts of people, but the leadership of these developing new guys - development being the soul of Cyclisme's mission, is golden when simply they develop as brothers in the Cyclisme Lore.  

Few have brought more pride and glory to this club.

"It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country."  Malcom X

This BEER's for you America!

Savior of the Tired

BEER? 

We 

need 

WATER!!

At the Team Beer Track Race, 

we found ourselves 

short of 

food and water.

Quickly, I prayed for a solution, then suddenly above 

the din and confusion of the crowd, her striped headband appeared on the

horizon like a golden halo. 

Our friend  from Mt. Scott Community Center Pool, Ms. 

Meghan 

Moore.

"MAY - GANNNN!!!" I yelled to the terror of Bike Central racers pompously posed on their perfect posteriors.

She heard the call for help, turned to rescue, and I sent Jake to guide her down to the infield.

When racers racing were just starting to feel hungry and tired, one made a difference.

Right at that critical moment of realization, she arrived, got it all figured out, and raced to Albertson's to buy hummus, bread, and water.

While I can't expect people to idolize the words and ways of fat cigar smokers, let me recall the words of 

Winston Churchill when he wrote:

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat"

And isn't that all we ask of any of you?

A little support can make all the difference sometimes.

Cyclisme racers who have been doing the Team work-out remember our friend  from Mt. Scott Community Center Pool. 

Now our whole track team will remember the day 

Ms. 

Meghan Moore

saved the day.

Her head on a swivel from jump street, one could tell this hard-core bike commuter could easily catch THE BUG.