4/24/12/ quick exit for one

temps  55ish
winds nw 20ish
partly cloudy

We started with 25 this Tuesday evening, but before we made the first turn we were down to 24.  Steve Halstead had mechanical issue and was done for the night.  We feel your pain Steve, the pain of getting geared up to ride and then not....worse than any pain we felt over the 40 miles.  Next week we will give you a place of honor at the front of the whole ride.. 
The team tactics taking place now seem to have further enhanced the ride.  In case you have missed it, CFT Masters are in white, CFT 4/5's in black and the remainder are now known as Enemies of the State, or in brief the EOTS. 
Black (Craig) took the first sprint this evening, but then white (Cary) went into "shut them down" mode, however the EOTS did edge a wheel in at sprint 4.  Kudos to Dave Joos on sprint 2 for the white, his move forced a chase by black that left them tapped out with any sprint legs.  Also, Dave, Ralph Heidl and Eric Snider got away on the lead up to sprint 5 and refused to be caught.  With a black jersey and white jersey up the road, the pack was neutralized...until the EOTS (MSU)had enough and initiated the chase...the break was doomed..but not until the final few hundred yards.

Next week will mark the end of the "scrimmages", then we will shift to tracking team points for May/June team competition.  Complete rules will be posted soon.  Also, look for correspondence coming this week that will outline procedure for reporting weekly race results.  Finally, it was suggested that there be a posting notifying team mates on who is intending on racing the upcoming weekend.  I think an easy way to do this is as follows:  There will be a blog entry posted pertaining to the upcoming weekend race.  Those that intend on racing can indicate so by doing a "comment" entry to that posting.  That will enable others to see who is racing.....until next week.  later