This update is a little late, but i got halfway through before i could get to the internet for long enough to finish it!
Athens Twilight, my hometown race of the last two seasons, was held on the weekend. The race itself was it’s usual carnage, with a number of crashes having an outcome on the race. Our team had a number of crashes, and i was unfortunate enough to go down again (for the second year in a row) too. Hekman went down and broke his forks, and finished the race without realising, and Frank hurt his wrist pretty bad, and has not ridden since.

We finished the race without a good result, which is a bit disappointing, and it sucks to have so many injuries after just our first pro race of the season! I have heard a lot of the spectators come to watch Twilight specifically for the crashes, but to those people, please spare a thought for the riders, we actually do get hurt!

The week leading up to Twilight our team did a couple of school visits. It was a good experience to get on the microphone, and some of us, like Shagman, had a bit of talent for busting out some freestyling:

Others, like Danny, were a bit more timid, and looked a little more uncomfortable when it came to singing for the crowd:

If you click on the link above, to Dan Vaillancourt’s website, you will see that it is not quite finished yet. I included a link to his page so that maybe he will get his arse into gear and get it rolling!

The coolest thing about the school visits, was that one of the schools had a rock climbing wall. You might not realise it, and the photo may be a little misleading, but i am actually ten metres high when this photo was taken! Check out my new rock climbing shoes; Louis Garneau with Shimano cleats!

My Outdoor Eduaction teachers from school will be pleased to know that those rock climbing camps we did in VCE stood me in good stead; check it out, no harness or anything!

So since Twilight, we have done three other sketchy crits; Tuesday in Beaufort, Wednesday in Walterboro, and Thursday in Greenwood. These first two were won by lone Toyota representitive, Hilton Clarke, while Thursday was won by Alex Candelario, seeing as Hiltz left to go home! For us guys, Hekman and Keith have been our best performers, getting us a few top tens. We are getting better each day, as the racing we are finally doing is bringing us up well!

I will get up a few photos from our trip through the crit series in the next few days.

While the Speedweek series is still going on, I am on the way up to Virginia for a UCI sanctioned race, the US Airforce Classic, on Sunday. I am really looking forward to doing a pro road race for the first time this year, it is going to be a welcome change not having to slam the brakes on, then sprint out of a corner each time we get up to speed! It is going to be a great test, and i am excited to see where i am at compared to the big hitters of the USA racing scene…

Laters dudes.

Beaufort, SC, where we raced the crit on Tuesday, is the place where Forrest Gump jumps off his fishing boat, into the water, to swim over to Lieutenant Dan...