Can we Subtract Points from Someone???
SGR is back babeeeee!
Riding down Route 10, everyone was in good
spirits excited for the first ride of the season. There were about 30 riders at the start.
The
turn onto River Road started off smoothly. No real attacks. A few
riders did a few short attacks Dillon P takes the cake for first attack of the year! Nothing that stuck for very long. There were surges in pace every so
often stringing us out into paceline mode but that usually settled down,
and the pack would always blob up again.
The
first real news happened as we got to the light on W. Main in Cheshire.
The Sernyak took a flyer and got a nice 20m gap or so on the rest of
the group. He caught the light just as it was turning from green to
yellow and cleanly made it through. Then some newbie who doesn't
understand the rules of the ride completely blew through the red light
to join up with him. Everyone else, including the riders alongside him,
stopped at the light. Sure as sunlight, it was Chris Crowell.
The pack determined he was now DQ'd for the ride for hypocrisy. He was docked 5 points on the season for blowing Sernyak's chance at breakaway glory, because Mike was good enough to wait with Chris on Moss Farms to let the group come back. A lessor man would have said "screw you Chris."
The pace throughout the day was high with surges but again not really any attacks that stuck.
Past the halfway point, as the ride turned on to Cheshire Road towards the sprint point and the
climbing to come, the pace seemed to start to pick up. The Central Wheel folks took control of the
ride and pace. They took turns doing attacks on the climbs. 'Lil Mulally, Little T, A Black, Joe K,
and others were there to keep everything together. Everyone was cool with letting the Magentas control the pace in the tough parts.
The Sprint went to Steve B and then Turner French in second.
Onto Coleman
where it was more of the same, The Central Wheels folks did some surges on the
climbs putting the brakes on any real attacks by anyone else. When we
hit the last segment after the stop sign by Tuttle and Mansion, four
Central Wheel riders were up front. Noah Black and Dan Smith made an attack while other CW riders eased up. No reaction meant that they rolled clear and there able to hang on for the W. Noah took the sprint, Dan in 2nd. Little T took the field sprint.
Great first ride of the year everyone!
