Philly 6hr 26min
Today I raced the long 156 miles 6hr Philly road race and it was a rough one.
My job today was to get Danny Pate to the corner leading into the Manayunk hill, which is 19% for the most part. So not only do I have to ride hard into the false flat head wind to get my guys to the right position, I have to make it over the hill with the group, lap after lap. Well race fans. I did it! Lap after lap. After 200k the group split because of the chase from CSC and now I find myself in a possible winning move. I’m in a group of about 30 and CSC is just driving it to bring back the 4 guys off the front.
We were caught the next lap by the chasers at the top of Manayunk. “I survived another lap” is what I’m thinking and I only have to do it 1 more time before we do the small laps.
Leading into the last lap going into Manayunk, Danny ask me to do it one more time, and I dug so deep going up the false flat (some what of a roller) hill with my team lined behind me. I knew I was going fast but didn’t know I was going 33mhp after 6hrs of racing until I looked at my powertap meter. I looked back and I put a split in the field and I pull off to let my other teammate finish the push. I’m thinking my day is over…I was the last guy to turn the corner about 10 bike links off the pack, however as the hill started to get steep, I can see guys and the crowd on Manayunk were “next level” they were yelling, screaming, shouting, pushing and giving every bit of encouragement to the riders. I even had my own little fan club in the middle of the climb. I owe it to them for me getting attached with a small group that formed at the top of the climb.
So now I’m in a small group that would just ride to the finish. I was happy that I did what I was supposed to do for the team 110% hands down. And I finished.
Mike Freeman was out best-placed rider at around 6 or 7th.
Not bad for a bunch of youngsters.
Also check out http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2006/jun06/commercebank06/?id=live/commercebank064
and see what some of the weak reports had to say during the race. They gave me a couple of shout outs.
photos to come.
My job today was to get Danny Pate to the corner leading into the Manayunk hill, which is 19% for the most part. So not only do I have to ride hard into the false flat head wind to get my guys to the right position, I have to make it over the hill with the group, lap after lap. Well race fans. I did it! Lap after lap. After 200k the group split because of the chase from CSC and now I find myself in a possible winning move. I’m in a group of about 30 and CSC is just driving it to bring back the 4 guys off the front.
We were caught the next lap by the chasers at the top of Manayunk. “I survived another lap” is what I’m thinking and I only have to do it 1 more time before we do the small laps.
Leading into the last lap going into Manayunk, Danny ask me to do it one more time, and I dug so deep going up the false flat (some what of a roller) hill with my team lined behind me. I knew I was going fast but didn’t know I was going 33mhp after 6hrs of racing until I looked at my powertap meter. I looked back and I put a split in the field and I pull off to let my other teammate finish the push. I’m thinking my day is over…I was the last guy to turn the corner about 10 bike links off the pack, however as the hill started to get steep, I can see guys and the crowd on Manayunk were “next level” they were yelling, screaming, shouting, pushing and giving every bit of encouragement to the riders. I even had my own little fan club in the middle of the climb. I owe it to them for me getting attached with a small group that formed at the top of the climb.
So now I’m in a small group that would just ride to the finish. I was happy that I did what I was supposed to do for the team 110% hands down. And I finished.
Mike Freeman was out best-placed rider at around 6 or 7th.
Not bad for a bunch of youngsters.
Also check out http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2006/jun06/commercebank06/?id=live/commercebank064
and see what some of the weak reports had to say during the race. They gave me a couple of shout outs.
photos to come.
posted by Rahsaan Bahati @ 3:45 PM
2 Comments:
At 11:15 AM,
Rahsaan Bahati said…
Bdweekes,
I sure hope your son can get back rooling. Its not to late. Look what Tony Cruz did.
Thanks for the post, people like yourself keep me rolling. Trust me, it was hard racing this race, but no one thought I could handle my job yet alone finish.
see you soon, ill get you some tired man.
At 7:14 PM,
Anonymous said…
HEY RAHSAAN GREAT JOB YOUNG MAN AT PHILLY, I'M FONZO, I MET YOU AT TINNIE'S HOUSE, I'M THE GUY WHO HAS 21 BIKES. AT PHILLY I HAD ON THE SOMBRERO AT THE TOP OF LIME HILL. TELL THE GUYS I SAID GREAT JOB AND KEEP BANGING.
GOOD LUCK ON YOUR NEXT RACE.
FONZO
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