Comments on: Cat. 5 racing can’t be too hard, can it? http://www.greenvillecyclingcenter.com/blog/2010/02/16/cat-5-racing-cant-too-hard-can-it/ Official blog of the Greenville Cycling Center Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:25:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Johnny Mitchell http://www.greenvillecyclingcenter.com/blog/2010/02/16/cat-5-racing-cant-too-hard-can-it/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Johnny Mitchell Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:35:46 +0000 http://www.greenvillecyclingcenter.com/blog/?p=11#comment-6 I don't even know what Ryan's reply was yet, but don't you guys know? Young people are invincible and nothing bad ever happens to us. Everyone also said I'd be burned out before the 2007 MB marathon, but that went ok :) Nevertheless, Ryan is a constant source of draft for me, and for that I am thankful (unlike Shaun, who will sit on you, and just before his turn to lead you'll look back and he's floating towards the rear :grin: ) I don’t even know what Ryan’s reply was yet, but don’t you guys know? Young people are invincible and nothing bad ever happens to us. Everyone also said I’d be burned out before the 2007 MB marathon, but that went ok :) Nevertheless, Ryan is a constant source of draft for me, and for that I am thankful (unlike Shaun, who will sit on you, and just before his turn to lead you’ll look back and he’s floating towards the rear :grin: )

]]> By: Ryan Swaim http://www.greenvillecyclingcenter.com/blog/2010/02/16/cat-5-racing-cant-too-hard-can-it/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Ryan Swaim Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:06:11 +0000 http://www.greenvillecyclingcenter.com/blog/?p=11#comment-5 Jim, Hope your wife's OK... was anything broken? Mine was very minor, except for the fact that I was wearing a brand-new Rapha jersey that my wife bought me for Christmas. :cry: Good riding with you... Shaun and I will be up your way for the 2/27-28 Spring Series races along with Johnny, so maybe we'll see you there. Good luck! Ryan Jim,
Hope your wife’s OK… was anything broken? Mine was very minor, except for the fact that I was wearing a brand-new Rapha jersey that my wife bought me for Christmas. :cry:
Good riding with you… Shaun and I will be up your way for the 2/27-28 Spring Series races along with Johnny, so maybe we’ll see you there. Good luck!
Ryan

]]> By: Jim Cunningham http://www.greenvillecyclingcenter.com/blog/2010/02/16/cat-5-racing-cant-too-hard-can-it/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Jim Cunningham Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:12:24 +0000 http://www.greenvillecyclingcenter.com/blog/?p=11#comment-4 Ryan, Thanks for writing me! Glad you're okay, my wife piled up and went to hospital... Better keep Johnny in check or he'll be burned out before April arrives. Man he likes to ride his bike! I wish I liked it half as much. ;) coach Jim Ryan,

Thanks for writing me! Glad you’re okay, my wife piled up and went to hospital… Better keep Johnny in check or he’ll be burned out before April arrives. Man he likes to ride his bike! I wish I liked it half as much. ;) coach Jim

]]> By: Ryan Swaim http://www.greenvillecyclingcenter.com/blog/2010/02/16/cat-5-racing-cant-too-hard-can-it/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Ryan Swaim Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:18:32 +0000 http://www.greenvillecyclingcenter.com/blog/?p=11#comment-3 Oh, God, please tell me you didn't do this... he's hard enough to ride with anyway, and you had to go and call him a "young stud?" (At least you threw in the bit about looking like a girl...) :smile: Hell, the only reason we were helping to chase was so that we wouldn't have to listen to him afterwards! Since I really don't think it can get any worse, I might as well throw a few more logs on the fire. He really did finish Mitchell in under six hours in his first shot... what he left out was that he would've done better if he hadn't burnt most of his matches in a 3-man, 30-mile breakaway that beat the rest of us in the "lead" group to Marion by 10 minutes. He has raced before (albeit on a 1-day license)... he actually led out of the final turn in the 4/5 crit in Walterboro last year and ended up 4th... would've been 3rd, but he sat up under the promotional banner thinking it was the finish line. Although he lives in Dillon (50+ miles west of Conway,) he drove to my house in Garden City Beach the morning of this ride and we rode the 20+ miles back to Conway for the start... he then rode back to my house afterwards for a total over 100. (I skipped the return trip, as I was busy picking asphalt and spandex out of my knee after a little mishap at mile 52; I was the guy on the black and green Trek.) There, that should do it... it will be fun to watch him try to fit his head through the door at the bike shop next week... :smile: Oh, God, please tell me you didn’t do this… he’s hard enough to ride with anyway, and you had to go and call him a “young stud?” (At least you threw in the bit about looking like a girl…) :smile: Hell, the only reason we were helping to chase was so that we wouldn’t have to listen to him afterwards! Since I really don’t think it can get any worse, I might as well throw a few more logs on the fire.

He really did finish Mitchell in under six hours in his first shot… what he left out was that he would’ve done better if he hadn’t burnt most of his matches in a 3-man, 30-mile breakaway that beat the rest of us in the “lead” group to Marion by 10 minutes.

He has raced before (albeit on a 1-day license)… he actually led out of the final turn in the 4/5 crit in Walterboro last year and ended up 4th… would’ve been 3rd, but he sat up under the promotional banner thinking it was the finish line.

Although he lives in Dillon (50+ miles west of Conway,) he drove to my house in Garden City Beach the morning of this ride and we rode the 20+ miles back to Conway for the start… he then rode back to my house afterwards for a total over 100. (I skipped the return trip, as I was busy picking asphalt and spandex out of my knee after a little mishap at mile 52; I was the guy on the black and green Trek.)

There, that should do it… it will be fun to watch him try to fit his head through the door at the bike shop next week… :smile:

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