ING Capital Criterium
Over the weekend, TIME Pro Cycling was in Washington DC for the ING Capital Criterium...Nick and Adam take up the storytelling from here:
Nick:
Time Pro Cycling ran a more active race than any team there, including Garmin and Kelly Benefits (with EIGHT riders!), and we had a guy off the front for a total of probably 1/2 of the race! We won two $1,000 premes outright, the first when I attacked a break just as it was being swallowed up and rode a lap solo, the second came when Tom Soladay was solo off the front for almost 10 laps, and I even performed my trademark flying-lap to take second on the preme for $500! Jon Hamblen was super active at the front, as always, chasing down anything dangerous and just being an incredible workhorse, while Adam stayed safely tucked away in the field getting ready for the inevitable sprint.
The course was held on Pennsylvania avenue, just ten blocks away from the capital . . . beautiful! There were many spectators, and awesome kids race, and generally top-notch organize and funding. We were taken out to a very nice restaurant, Sonoma, and given free reign on their ultra-expensive menu, then slept in one of DC's longest-running hotels, the Hotel Harrington, again provided by the race organization. My hat is off to them!
After our excellent race, it was just heartbreaking to get taken out in the final lap.
Adam:
On Sunday I was on Hilton Clarke’s wheel in the first 5 or 6 guys, coasting through the first turn on the final lap, and then next thing I know someone’s going across my front wheel and I was on the ground. I never even saw who or what took me down. $10,000 to win, less than a lap to go, and there I was, flat on my back with a bike that looked like I had been hit by a car.
Nick:
Time Pro Cycling ran a more active race than any team there, including Garmin and Kelly Benefits (with EIGHT riders!), and we had a guy off the front for a total of probably 1/2 of the race! We won two $1,000 premes outright, the first when I attacked a break just as it was being swallowed up and rode a lap solo, the second came when Tom Soladay was solo off the front for almost 10 laps, and I even performed my trademark flying-lap to take second on the preme for $500! Jon Hamblen was super active at the front, as always, chasing down anything dangerous and just being an incredible workhorse, while Adam stayed safely tucked away in the field getting ready for the inevitable sprint.
The course was held on Pennsylvania avenue, just ten blocks away from the capital . . . beautiful! There were many spectators, and awesome kids race, and generally top-notch organize and funding. We were taken out to a very nice restaurant, Sonoma, and given free reign on their ultra-expensive menu, then slept in one of DC's longest-running hotels, the Hotel Harrington, again provided by the race organization. My hat is off to them!
After our excellent race, it was just heartbreaking to get taken out in the final lap.
Adam:
On Sunday I was on Hilton Clarke’s wheel in the first 5 or 6 guys, coasting through the first turn on the final lap, and then next thing I know someone’s going across my front wheel and I was on the ground. I never even saw who or what took me down. $10,000 to win, less than a lap to go, and there I was, flat on my back with a bike that looked like I had been hit by a car.
posted by Jered at
4:16 AM
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