Hey 50+ Guys -
Thanks for all your pain and suffering in punching the 1st
and 2nd overall 50+ LaCrosse Omnium podium tickets - Meteyer winning
and El Capitan (Eric Knuth) second place. Having a 7 man team
showing up was impressive and surely had our competition wondering how they
were going to cover all of us.
Meteyer, ElCap, and Gordy got off to a great start with
taking 1st, 2nd, and 5th place in the 2 mile uphill TT.
That gave TMT lots of options in the road race on Saturday.
Gordy and Barney got the race up to speed just after the start. We
wanted to make the race hard from the start. Barney took on a flat early
into the race. That really sucked since he drove all the way there that morning
for a 8:30am start. He’d been riding strong so we hated to see him
out of it. Gordy pressed on with attacks and after the first time up the
climb managed to solo away. We sure would have liked to have seen
at least one other guy go with him with the amount of head and cross wind he had
to deal with alone.
He got up to 30 sec lead before a group of 4 started working to chase him back. ElCap and Meteyer managed to disrupt their pace line at times but they were intent on getting him back and managed to do so about a mile prior to the second time up the climb. ElCap took up the pace on the climb. Half way up, Meteyer lifted the pace to the top. TMT managed to create a break of 6. Gordy’s earlier effort caused 4 strong guys to burn some matches. None of those guys made the break. It took a while for the break to get organized but we managed to get up to a minute by the start of the 3rd lap. A couple of the guys were skipping pulls frequently and looked to be hanging on. So TMT put in a long hard attack up the final rise prior to the first corner. And to our surprise it didn’t drop anyone. No more free rides after that. Everyone was made to take their pulls.
Last time up the climb, ElCap started up at a hard tempo, again followed up by Meteyer taking over and lifting the pace over the top. We managed to shed one of our break-mates. The others showed some signs of cracking and we tried a couple of attacks but they managed to respond. At a mile from the finish Meteyer attacked and one guy managed to hang on and they went to the finish line. Meteyer was out - kicked me for the win. It was probably the right move since one of the guys that he left behind with ElCap was in 3rd place in the Omnium. But nonetheless he was disappointed that he didn’t manage to take the win. ElCap out sprinted the other two guys for 3rd .
He got up to 30 sec lead before a group of 4 started working to chase him back. ElCap and Meteyer managed to disrupt their pace line at times but they were intent on getting him back and managed to do so about a mile prior to the second time up the climb. ElCap took up the pace on the climb. Half way up, Meteyer lifted the pace to the top. TMT managed to create a break of 6. Gordy’s earlier effort caused 4 strong guys to burn some matches. None of those guys made the break. It took a while for the break to get organized but we managed to get up to a minute by the start of the 3rd lap. A couple of the guys were skipping pulls frequently and looked to be hanging on. So TMT put in a long hard attack up the final rise prior to the first corner. And to our surprise it didn’t drop anyone. No more free rides after that. Everyone was made to take their pulls.
Last time up the climb, ElCap started up at a hard tempo, again followed up by Meteyer taking over and lifting the pace over the top. We managed to shed one of our break-mates. The others showed some signs of cracking and we tried a couple of attacks but they managed to respond. At a mile from the finish Meteyer attacked and one guy managed to hang on and they went to the finish line. Meteyer was out - kicked me for the win. It was probably the right move since one of the guys that he left behind with ElCap was in 3rd place in the Omnium. But nonetheless he was disappointed that he didn’t manage to take the win. ElCap out sprinted the other two guys for 3rd .
At the start of the Crit, Meteyer was leading the Omnium and
ElCap was in second 4 points behind. There were only 3 guys that could
overtake TMT for the overall and when we rolled up to the start line only
one of those guys showed up. Gordy, ElCap and Meteyer traded off
attacking repeatedly but never managed to get a break established.
At 4 laps to go, a guy managed to get away and made it stick for the
win and the rest came to a field sprint. Meteyer took 8th
in the crit which was good enough for him to hold onto first in the
Omnium with ElCap in second.
It was a great team effort resulting in TMT’s 1,2
podium punch.
Mike
Congrats guys!
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