Plan for the week

Well, the KMS team has once again had a breakthrough weekend down at the NBX Verge Cross races in Warwick, RI.   For the first time at a Verge series race, we had not one, but two, podium finishes.  Riding on her brand new Cdale Hi-Mod Sram Red cross bike from the Start House, Erin stepped up to two 3rd place finishes in the Women 3/4 category, bested only by national junior girls' cross champion, Emma White, and national girls' mt. biking cross country champion, Ellen Noble.   Fantastic job, Erin!

As for the boys, Ansel Dickey came up with the goods on Sun for a 10th place in the Cat 3 men/Jr. race while Brendan Rhim finished 23rd on a neutral support bike after he had a catastrophic breakage while shifting on Sat.   Peter, Jr. and Alden Suokko also had top half solid finishes both days and Coach redeemed himself from the previous week with 5th on Sat and 6th on Sun.

The team also had the pleasure of giving three-time Jr. National Cross Champion, Jeff Bahnson, a lift to the race and back.  Jeff happens to be attending Green Mountain College in Poultney and called me out of the blue as he needed a ride to the race since his collegemate totaled his car in a car accident.   Here're some great pics and vids of Jeff's international cross exploits:  http://www.dccofd.org/jeffbahnson.htm

For this week:

Monday:  rest day, no training
Tues:  indoor trainer ride at 5 pm
Wed or Thurs depending on weather:  2 hour dirt road ride weather permitting at 2 pm.
Friday:  TSR
Sat/Sun: no racing, weekend off, team training ride to be discussed.

***KMS TEAM REMINDERS:

1)  If you're going to cross nats, renew your license for 2012 asap at www.usacycling.org and register for nats while you're at it (rates go up on Dec. 8).

2)  Register for the New England Cross Championships in Fitchburg on Dec. 18-19.   Reg for your junior race on Sat and then your respective adult race on Sun.  Erin, just register for jr. girl's race on Sun.  

Thanks!