Thanks to everyone who has supported us and believed in us!
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Psyched
Luckily the cycling team sprung into existence no later than my senior year at F&M. I’m psyched!
Word of mouth caught my ear just in time for me to ride with Rob, Drew, and Charlie in the Cranksgiving benefit race. This was such an awesome day for me; I met these guys for the first time and now consider them my great friends. Clicking right off the bat, we stuck together through the entire ride. We rode, slid and scrambled through grocery stores trying to purchase the kid-friendly food as fast as possible and get back on the road. Once we reached the finish line…or the local coffee shop, we quickly found out that we placed 2nd, 3rd, 4th males and 1st female! This was definitely a starting point for us…we felt great not only after doing what we love (cycling), but also after contributing to a really great cause.
We initially had a bit of trouble getting everyone together religiously for daily rides, however seeing that temperatures were so cold and work gets in the way this is totally expected. Nonetheless I have complete confidence that more and more teammates will be getting out there for rides now that we have the first races under our belts and spring fever will be rushing through our veins.
We all received our helmets a couple of weeks ago. I felt that this really instilled a bit of confidence in us and allowed us to begin to feel like more of a team. I volunteered to host our first pasta party in my apartment a couple nights prior to racing (it’s important to get those carbs in well before the night prior to a race!!) and I was so unbelievably happy with the turn out. The point of the pasta party was not only carb loading; it was also to get everyone’s mind in the game, and best of all, to receive our racing kits! Chips, salsa, guac, 3 boxes of spaghetti and two jars of sauce kept us content watching TV, chatting about tactics for the weekend and just getting some of our first laughs in.
Now for the races. We spent the night at Adric’s and had our second pasta party. Awake at 6:30 we headed out for Rutgers in Piscataway, NJ to take on our first time trial. We then rushed from Piscataway to Princeton to warm up for the second race of the day…the criterium. The next day we had our final race back at Rutgers where we really had to push through the pain and fatigue from the prior day’s races.
The F&M cycling team has copious amounts of potential and I can’t wait for us all to continue training, get stronger, and place better and better in the races coming up. GO DIPS!
Word of mouth caught my ear just in time for me to ride with Rob, Drew, and Charlie in the Cranksgiving benefit race. This was such an awesome day for me; I met these guys for the first time and now consider them my great friends. Clicking right off the bat, we stuck together through the entire ride. We rode, slid and scrambled through grocery stores trying to purchase the kid-friendly food as fast as possible and get back on the road. Once we reached the finish line…or the local coffee shop, we quickly found out that we placed 2nd, 3rd, 4th males and 1st female! This was definitely a starting point for us…we felt great not only after doing what we love (cycling), but also after contributing to a really great cause.
We initially had a bit of trouble getting everyone together religiously for daily rides, however seeing that temperatures were so cold and work gets in the way this is totally expected. Nonetheless I have complete confidence that more and more teammates will be getting out there for rides now that we have the first races under our belts and spring fever will be rushing through our veins.
We all received our helmets a couple of weeks ago. I felt that this really instilled a bit of confidence in us and allowed us to begin to feel like more of a team. I volunteered to host our first pasta party in my apartment a couple nights prior to racing (it’s important to get those carbs in well before the night prior to a race!!) and I was so unbelievably happy with the turn out. The point of the pasta party was not only carb loading; it was also to get everyone’s mind in the game, and best of all, to receive our racing kits! Chips, salsa, guac, 3 boxes of spaghetti and two jars of sauce kept us content watching TV, chatting about tactics for the weekend and just getting some of our first laughs in.
Now for the races. We spent the night at Adric’s and had our second pasta party. Awake at 6:30 we headed out for Rutgers in Piscataway, NJ to take on our first time trial. We then rushed from Piscataway to Princeton to warm up for the second race of the day…the criterium. The next day we had our final race back at Rutgers where we really had to push through the pain and fatigue from the prior day’s races.
The F&M cycling team has copious amounts of potential and I can’t wait for us all to continue training, get stronger, and place better and better in the races coming up. GO DIPS!
Friday, March 6, 2009
Encounters with the Amish
Here is a story from Laura about one of her training rides here in Lancaster:
After all the stereotypes I've heard and all the first hand encounters
I've had with the Amish and Mennonites of Lancaster nothing prepared
me for what happened on our team training ride one Sunday afternoon.
Approaching a small group of teen to early twenties guys presumably
walking back from a morning of church, the guys respectfully
acknowledged the guys on our team BUT when they came to me I was
greeted not with a nod but with whistles! Catcalled by the Amish...who
would have guessed?
-Laura
I've had with the Amish and Mennonites of Lancaster nothing prepared
me for what happened on our team training ride one Sunday afternoon.
Approaching a small group of teen to early twenties guys presumably
walking back from a morning of church, the guys respectfully
acknowledged the guys on our team BUT when they came to me I was
greeted not with a nod but with whistles! Catcalled by the Amish...who
would have guessed?
-Laura
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
One more rider for this weekend!
We have one more addition to our roster for the weekend:
Winston Bowen '11
Again we wish everyone luck for the weekend.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Rutgers/Princeton less than a week away!
Greetings all of you F&M cycling Fans! Sorry the blog has been so dormant, lots has been going on putting the team together. We all received great new helmets from Rudy Project, and our new Jerseys should be arriving at the end of the week.
The Rutgers/Princeton Race will consist of three different races over two days. Saturday starts out with a short time trial followed by and Crit in the afternoon. On Sunday we will race a Circuit race in the morning before heading back to F&M
We have a final roster for our first race:
Stephen Thomasch '10
Charlie Salzer '12
Adric Quackenbush '11
Samantha Schneider '09
Drew Mitstifer '11
Dan Rossi '12
Erik Olsen '11
Two of our riders are injured and will be unable to compete this weekend:
Rob Burnett '12 out with mono
Laura Kratz '11 out with knee injury
Check back soon for more updates and picture from the race.
Cheers!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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