A Proper Suffer-Fest as a One-Man Swatt Team Shows Up
Another big crowd out tonight for what ended up being a barn burner of a ride.
We saw the triumphant return of Matt Z and Max Accaputo. Also the very first SGR appearance of the legendary Peter Morgan. Pete would feature much at the front of the ride tonight. He was stoking the fire early on Mountain RD, on Moss Farms and a little bit past the halfway mark as well.
Today's MVP goes to Andrew Suzuki. He showed up ready to drill it and the ride was especially fast for it.
The ride got going normally but as soon as it got going, the duo of Turner French and Suzuki kept it crisp up front. Matt Z and Peter Morgan added something something here and there and the pace was fast enough to start to break things apart even before the pack got to Mountain Rd.
Once on Mountain though, the hot pace really started to eat up the peloton. a select group of 8-10, the strongest of the group, rolled off the front.
Suzuki, Hunter P, and Turner French traded pulls and broke the group free. It ended up being a record-breaking pace up Mountain Rd.
The light at Mountain was red or else there was no way the pack was going to catch up. Onto Moss Farms it calmed down a bit, but still with
Suzuki
and Turner French up there. Dan Smith pushed off the front once. Sean Hurley as well. Nothing too exciting though until the ride got close to the chicane. The pace started to hot up again, leading to Turner, Hunter, Andrew, and Sean Hurley ripping through the corner before the Chicane. Behind the pack was strung out. A rider visiting SGR for the first or second time from the Avon area hit his pedal in the corner and went down.
That stopped the majority of the riders. Most of which were almost about to lose contact with the front anywhere. The riders up front traded jabs going onto Marion, leading to a strong pace. heading past the industrial park. By the time the leading group of 7-9 riders (Tom Krol, Noah Black, Joe Rod, Sen Hurley, Sean Maher,
Suzuki, Hunter P, Turner French, Matt Z, Peter Morgan and a couple others) got to the light on 322, it seemed as though they had a gap to the rest, when in fact several (Dillon P, Little T, Dan Smith and others) had stopped to assist the new guy.
That group duked it out in the sprints. Noah Black got the turnaround sprint in front of Turner French. Hunter P took the greenhouse sprint in front of Turner French and Sean Maher.
Heading into the finale, Sean Hurley attacked going down Tuttle and got a good gap into last few hundred meters but would be caught up as
Suzuki pushed the final pace. Hunter P came around all and got in front of Turner and
Suzuki.
Awesome ride. Everyone in the front group owes Andrew Suzuki a coffee! Stop by any time A.S.!
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No report for last week? Kudos to TK for the big win! That's all I know.
In case anyone checks this post before tomorrow's ride... A few of us were thinking of doing a chase race format tomorrow. Basically, a B group would leave at 5:57 from the parking lot and try to keep away from the main field. If interested, just be sure to get there a few minutes before we leave so we can discuss - and let the main field know to chase us! Hoping to have 5-10 of us working together to stay ahead of the field!
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