Delinquent

My apologies for being MIA for two missing blogs.  I attribute this to time constraints and writers block.  To remedy the matter, I no longer keep track of time and I pulled out some Edgar Allen Poe writings for inspiration:  Lots has happened.  Two TNR nights have come and gone.  I will summarize them in one line.  Fast and furious.  In addition we have been loose on keeping score tally's, which is no big deal as we are accomplishing what we want on the ride.  Two teams are still working hard to hone strategy and tactics and things are meshing fairly well.  We have juggled the lineups and put some parameters on how much one rider can score in one night.  This has opened up sprints to other individuals and it has worked well.

We have to talk about Potter road.  For those of you that do not know it by name, it is the road through the trees leading to the 5th sprint.  Bottom line is the road is crumbling from the edges in.  Those of you that were there Tuesday night know what I mean.  The one section in particular has crumbled halfway across the right lane leaving about 3 and half feet of pavement on our side of the yellow line.  In its place now is a 4 to 5 inch deep gaping hole that devours wheels and bikes.  Until fixed it will only get worse.  There are other areas on the road that present some great hazards also, especially at high speeds.

 There has been some brief talk about finding alternate route around that road.  Maybe continue on up Williamston to Dexter Trail.  Further discussions will happen on this before a decision is made.  In the interim, I propose/suggest this for the next ride:  The 5th sprint and the leadup to it become a neutral zone for this next week.  First of all we need to ride that road slow to see if the bike eating hole is even fixed.  Second, if you have not been on that  section by yourself and your only exposure to that road is in a pack on Tuesday night, then you really don't realize where and how bad that right edge is.  By running that section in a neutral, reasonable pace this upcoming Tuesday it will give all riders the ability to see where not to be on that road at a high rate of speed.  Then after this Tuesday we can discuss further on what to do for the remainder of the rides.   Anyways, that is my suggestion for this upcoming week.

As for the CFT Team.  West Branch and Mt. P.  By now I am sure you have seen the results.  Pretty darn good stuff.  This weekend brings on two more points races.  Good luck to all

Finally, our race is now 10 days away.  Thanks to all that have volunteered and for registering early.

That is all for now.  later.