It’s been a while since I’ve blobbed on the blog…woops.
First order of business is director toward a Mr. Mark Abramson: Cat. 3 upgrade achieved. BaBoom.
In case you haven’t noticed, Le Tour de France is going on, and there have been quite some contest for the three maillots of pride: the yellow, the green, and the polka dot. Today alone was one big ho-ha when it came to jerseys. Big George came oh-so-close to wearing yellow, and Fast Cav got relegated to the back of the pack for forcing the God of Thunder into the barriers in the pack sprint. You know all this already anyway…people get paid to synthesize the Tour, so from here on out I promise I won’t go that route.
But I needed to preface the main topic of discussion: the other green jersey. I am, of course, talking about Green Line Velo, the hottest new team…anywhere. I blogged about it for the first time a few months ago, but an update is significantly overdue.
GLV has been racing all over the place, out making a name for itself at races almost every weekend. The last major race us hooligans spun in was the illustrious Fitchburg Longsjo Classic. With outfits in the Cat. 3 and Cat. 4 fields, we were pulling through every turn, billy-goating up every hill, and stealing airtime over the PA at every race.
While the team was plagued with more mechanicals than the Bike Gods even invented, we’ll have tons of lasting laughs and stories from a good weekend. Keith ended up bombing down the descent of the road race at close to 60 mph while having to dodged a car around a corner with a move not even Star Fox could have pulled off. Collin broke a should-have-been-Cat-5 rider’s ribs when the guy crashed on a strait trying to take a drink of water; Colin also got to find out what the bone in his arm looks like, as he lost pretty much all of the skin on his elbow in that crash. Steve-O and Keith both crashed out in the crit thanks to other teams’ mistakes. Tyler Hamilton really loves the GLV kits. Yes that’s right, Tyler Hamilton.
The short and skinny on the Attleboro Crit was that we rocked it, especially in the Cat. 4 race. The 3s did a good race but the 4s, man we rode a good one. Steve-O won the thing, I pulled out 5th, and Butler squeezed in at 8th. That’s three guys in the top 10. Our tactics were impeccable, and had at least one person in every break attempt, not to mention superb blocking. Every single member of that outfit did a fine job, and others felt compelled to provide post-race positive remarks as well. Then good old Rob from BU hooked us up with a darn good post-race BBQ and Tour watching session. It was a good weekend.
Rivalries
No team exists without rivalries, and it seems that GLV find itself in the midst of multiple budding ones. Rivalries are healthy for the sporting soul, be you a fisherman, curler, cyclist, or underwater basket weaver.
Threshold: I wasn’t there for the start of this one at the Connecticut Stage Race, but there’s definitely been a smack talk and need-for-speed rivalry with these guys (and girls), and I support it. I would simply suggest that before they start whining again about how GLV riders blocking on the front need to pick up the pace, perhaps they try and do it themselves…
Cambridge Bikes: I’m not talking Garmin-Columbia rivalry here, just some good old on the saddle stuff.. Purely competitively based, GLV and CB have found themselves in the peloton with each other more often than not. Why not kick it up a notch and mark their every move? They’re good guys over there and I look forward to suffering against them again soon.
UVM: When are they not rivals? But I swear if one of your guys tries to pull that curb-hopping barrier-riding crap they did in the Fitchburg Criterium again I will come at you with more force than Christian Bale on the set of the Terminator. You’ve been warned Catamounts… Otherwise you guys are just dandy as long as you hold your line :-)
End of Blog Nickname Update (sans explanations)
- Keith: Bubbles
- AJ: Scarecrow
- Collin: Ahab
- Lachance: Peaches
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