It is really beautiful. Seven Springs is like a piece of heaven on earth. It is so green here and so many trees - it is amazing to look at the landscape and realize that the Civil War was fought amongst forests like the ones we drove by today. You could not see 15 feet deep into the forest. That was one of our topics of discussion as we drove toward Seven Springs.
So, I must tell you that Tim and Andrew Sr. went the second mile with us today! We met at the criterium course and all the kids rode it easy for awhile - Stanley and his dad Greg rode the course with Jon. Thank you Stefan for letting Jon use your bike!!
Then we drove the 1/4 mile to the TT course and spent awhile (along with some other cyclists) just trying to figure it out. Andrew Sr. blessed us with his track expertise to show a proper start - hopefully I will get some good start photos tomorrow. Andrew, Joe and Brentley are working on their "team" strategies. (Those three were the 1st, 2nd and 3rd, respectfully, in the Lance Armstrong junior point series.) Today is the first day I began to get very excited. Anything can happen. Fast kids from all over the US. Just pray for no technical difficulties or injuries.
About this time it was 2pm so we grabbed lunch at Subway where I realized that I actually had Abba's USA Cycling license - not Jon's. We grabbed our food and ran to find a computer with printer....eventually we were sucessful at the public library and printed out his permission to race thingy. Like I said Tim and Andrew were awesome and waited for us so that we could follow them to Seven Springs.
There we registered, checked out the TT starts, drove the road race course and the guys then rode the descent twice. (According to Joe's computer he hit 47 mph - this is just from not using his brakes, he didn't attack it like he loves to do.) Like I said please pray that there will be no injuries. The rules: have fun. no getting hurt.
It was cool watching those young men today. They are so healthy, focused and really nice kids.
Good news - for those who don't know, Nano and Joe built up a TT bike with
the help of Robert, Eric, City Bicycles, Joshua, Garrat, Dan, Brian P. and are sharing one bike. We were hoping that the timing would work for them in regards to the bike. It does...Joe races at 9:26 and Nano doesn't start until 1:13 or so.
Tomorrow will be very interesting. Joe, Jon and Nano are already asleep, the bikes are ready, Gatorade is made, numbers are on the jerseys...so...
Let's roll!
About this time it was 2pm so we grabbed lunch at Subway where I realized that I actually had Abba's USA Cycling license - not Jon's. We grabbed our food and ran to find a computer with printer....eventually we were sucessful at the public library and printed out his permission to race thingy. Like I said Tim and Andrew were awesome and waited for us so that we could follow them to Seven Springs.
There we registered, checked out the TT starts, drove the road race course and the guys then rode the descent twice. (According to Joe's computer he hit 47 mph - this is just from not using his brakes, he didn't attack it like he loves to do.) Like I said please pray that there will be no injuries. The rules: have fun. no getting hurt.
It was cool watching those young men today. They are so healthy, focused and really nice kids.
Good news - for those who don't know, Nano and Joe built up a TT bike with
the help of Robert, Eric, City Bicycles, Joshua, Garrat, Dan, Brian P. and are sharing one bike. We were hoping that the timing would work for them in regards to the bike. It does...Joe races at 9:26 and Nano doesn't start until 1:13 or so.
Tomorrow will be very interesting. Joe, Jon and Nano are already asleep, the bikes are ready, Gatorade is made, numbers are on the jerseys...so...
Let's roll!
4 comments:
looking & sounding good, great photo's
Good luck to the boys AND their mom :-D.
it looks truly beautiful.
thanks for the interesting updates.
we are praying for the boys to be safe, do their best and have fun.
drtd
drth
Cool! Sounds like Fun! Thank you VeloMOM.
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