Thursday, May 1, 2008

these pictures are from the GP Velotek stage race from April 26-27 in lawrence and perry, ks.Myself and 4 other teammates toed the start line over the weekend for 360 racing. 5 of us started and finished the stage race in the Cat 4 race. Keith Walberg, Brad Schrock, Joel Hammontree and I work extremely hard in stages 2 and 3 to set our young G.C. contender up for the win. Nathan Borozinski rode awsome in each stage, winning the crit on saturday and the road race on sunday. he was able to gain enough of the time bonuses during the crit and road race to overcome a 15 second deficit he had after his 8th place stage 1 prologue result. as a team the 360 guys finished second to SKC racing and ahead of 3rd place BicycleShack. 44 racers started the cat 4 stage race on saturday morning in the prologue and in the crit in the afternoon. i personally had a horrible TT on saturday and was in 33rd and the last of the 360 racers. i followed that up with a good crit and an 8th place finish. was within a bike and a half length of Nathan and Kurt Muelbach who were 1st and 2nd in the final sprint. i was just in too big of a gear and really lacked that extra snap to finish off that sprint. I am getting closer though, and although i missed out with a really good finish noone came around my wheel those last meters to the line. in fact, a fellow racer who was using me as a 'wheel-out' told me later that i actually rode him off my wheel those last 100 meters. so.....i am getting better at this sprinting stuff. the road race went good on sunday......the 360 guys were up front late in the race to help bring back a break and then set Nathan up on the finishing sprint on the hill to the finish. Joel H. really set up Nathan with a big pull on the flat cross-wind section across the damn leading up to the finishing hill. Nathan killed it and beat everyone to the line. Brad Shrock was the second 360 guy to the line in 8th and i finished a few places later in 12th.was really a fun weekend to race and work with good guys and great teammates.Great weekend for 360 racing and for the cat 4 winner, Nathan.till next time, go ride.....




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