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| after the final stage of the weekend and Babik's second win. |
Lots of fun packed into a very small of mount of time is why I'm sitting at a computer on perfect Sunday morning instead of out pedaling around. Last weekend was the Tour of Washington County, a wonderful stage race that takes place in and around the fine city of Hagerstown, MD. This was the first team race trip I have taken since the Kraynick's squad went up to Ontario for some stage racing almost a decade ago. I learned a lot last weekend racing with my new mates on GPOA, most of all I learned that they are the shit. In learning this I also realized that I got to get it together man. These guys killed all weekend, Babik brought home 2 big W's in the crits and young Bobby got third in a scorching road race. Everybody else just road there asses off for the good of the team, Seitz(Sikes), Steevo, Smiling John aka Mtn Bike John, and Colin all were amazing all weekend. These guys can do battle with the best the east coast has to offer. I did however manage to put like 4 minutes into Steevo in the final TT, regardless if he was soft pedaling in a group or not.
So after one day back at work I was back in the car with the wife on our way to Charlottesville, VA for nice little two night stay at B&B about 15 miles down the road from Wintergreen mountain and the Blue Ridge Parkway. I can easily say that I went on one the best rides of my life. The BRP is like some sort of dream road for cyclist, virtually no cars, great road conditions and the view is insane. I could have spent days up there but my proposed two hour ride turned into three and there were brew pubs and food spots to check out. Charlottesville is a cool little town that houses the University of Virginia and a bunch great places to eat, we tried to get to as much as we could, The Local was my favorite of the bunch.
http://www.thelocal-cville.com/. Well summer is in full swing, hopefully a heap of good times yet to come.
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| high up on Wintergreen |
