Burning off sweet potatoes

This will be a very brief update and report from the news desk at the Richard Sachs Cyclocross Team atmo. We spent this past weekend burning off sweet potatoes, dark meat, and long drives to Grandma’s palace while doing laps around Chocksett Middle School in Sterling, Massachsetts, site of the Baystate-Gearworks UCI C2 cyclocross events. Dan, Josh, and Will each had two remarkable days of racing in the Elite Men’s category. In the same order in which I typed their names, the finsishes were 2nd, 4th, and 5th on Saturday, and 3rd, 5th, and 7th on Sunday. All three got some good UCI points for this and Dan and Josh further secure their rightful spots dominating the season long Verge Points Series. Have a look at the standings with only one weekend to go:

I missed the first day of racing but arrived loaded for bear on Sunday. Sadly, my four race winning streak ended with a bang. I lined up with almost 30 other 55+ cats and as soon as the pistol fired I realized that it was going to be a struggle. An under inflated front tire caused me concern from the first turn despite my ability to ride through most of the obstacles. I took a bicycle on lap two and lost little time getting back into the first group. Later that lap, I burped (that’s a politically correct way of saying “rolled”) a rear tire on an off camber remount and had to push the mutha’ back on before i could still feel like I was in the game atmo. No matter – a turn or seven more and I was sideways on the floor, an act I was called back to perform at least two more times before the finish line. So while I was there in Sterling hoping for a podium and the realizing that the closest I was all race was near 4th place, I settled for a lowly 9th after the mechanicals and mishaps. Oh well. My Verge Points Series standing is listed here:

As far as the National rankings go, I still have no ideer if it’s done by race results or by a combination of one’s ability to channel Sinatra while simultaneously doing the white man’s overbite, but I remain quite high in the standings still, being top five in all cats 30 and older:

and on top of the world in the actual age group in which I race:

PS I did it my way atmo.

I must run and be the Greek God of Kitchens, Dudycious (Do Dishes…) now so I’ll cut this off here. The last item of note is the long laundry list of links found below, all courtesy kinda’ sorta’ of Jeff Scher, a shooter based in Maine. Click through ALL of them atmo because there are some great pics of Dan, Josh, and Will.

Hey – thanks for reading atmo.

e-RICHIE