Here's a couple of photos from yesterday's crit in Merced... Ally came 16th in a tough field including HTC and Peanut Butter's best...Way to go, Ally...

Photo's from Steve Ryan....http://www.flickr.com/photos/juniorvelo/archives/date-taken/2010/03/06/

She might want to turn her armwarmers right side up !

moss:   [maws, mos]

–noun

1. any tiny, leafy-stemmed, flowerless plant of the class Musci, reproducing by spores and growing in tufts, sods, or mats on moist ground, tree trunks, rocks, etc.

2. a growth of such plants on terrestrial beings, such as Hobits, Gnomes, Trolls and inhabitants of cold rainy climates in the Northern Hemisphere.

Little did we how prophetic this photo would be...

Good luck in Seattle Steve, see you at the races.  Don't forget to srape the musci off before donning your team kit.

Ciao

Former 7-Eleven director sportif Mike Neel was once asked by a journalist about the science of cycling.  His response:

"It's not a science, it's war."

Thaw before cooking...  He wasn't in the Tour of Med too long after this.

"Hobo on Couch" by Georges Seurat

I've been meaning to post these for a while. I have more pics from races and rides as I am sure everyone else does. Here is a link to a flickr page I set up for the Team.  I have sent everyone on the team e-mail list the password. Feel free to contribute any pics and also manage the page, add tags,  descriptions, map, or change privacy settings (for example , maybe you want to show a pic of your buddy throwing up at the top of the mountain but you only want a hundered or so people to see it ). Enjoy.

More pics are available here.