Montrose Ride with team LG

A great turnout by Team LG at the long version of the Montrose ride today. Very fast ride averaging 22+ mph for the entire ride. No accidents, a few dorks, cool weather, no Bento boxes, and nobody yelling "on your left". The way a ride should be. A special thanks to Joe Pugliese for buying me coffee with my money. Thanks, Joe. It really hit the spot. A cool 72 miles and home by 11:30.

On a more serious note, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the club, it's members, sponsors, and board of directors for taking part in the Palm Springs Century a couple of weeks ago. This club has a racing history dating back over 4o years and I may have tarnished it's reputation by attending this event. I will make it my life's goal to somehow make up for it.

Next off to San Dimas for the MTB US Cup. See below...

Two National Champions in the mix on this day.

Left to right: Tim Claudio, Mike Carlson, Chris London, Joe Pugliese, Jaycee Carey, Joel Bertet

Vincent Lombardi at the 2011 US Cup at Bonelli Park

Vince gets the call-up.

The 83 starters line up.

Former La Grange rider Ben Sonntag.

I saw my first ever Pro Mountain Bike race today. Friggin awesome! It makes a crit race look like a crit race. These dudes are studs. No drafting and the hammering never, ever stops until you get pulled or finish. Our Vincent was the top SoCal finisher. Great job by out fastest rider in the club, finishing 24th out of 83 starters, just missing out on valuable UCI points.

Arco Criterium March 6, 2011

Anna Drakulich (and Cathy Keeley)

Chad Tulloch

Richard Kim

Brandon Gritters wants to know if there is break up the road. Yes.

Wilson Blas

Anthony Gianisato (and Susanne Sonye in the 30+ 1-3 race)

Christian Cognigni

Michael Hamilton

Chad Tulloch

RESULTS...

Food Park Training Ride

My first time on the Food Park Ride. Not sure about the route, so when the ride started to split in two, I asked some dude which was which. He said the climbing turns right here, the flatter ride goes straight. I decided not to kill myself on the first ride, so I went straight. There were only about a dozen of us on this version, mostly women and masters racers. It was aggressive but very easy to hang with them. On PCH some of the riders pulled over and some kept going. I wasn't sure what happened, so I asked someone where this ride was going and she said they were going to meet some friends for coffee and the ride was back there. Well, now I know to wait next time and finish up Chainbreak Hill with the group. I decided to keep riding up to Long Beach and back to Huntington Beach, then back up to Long Beach to meet friends for lunch, then back to Irvine.

Riders meet at about 8:30 and roll out about 8:45

Kyle Gritters on the new 2011 Cannondale Supersix.

Jason Bausch

Total miles for the day.