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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="02c285a1erlcgo.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>REI Austin Cycling Team</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="REI Austin Cycling Team"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> back to  <A HREF="id164.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Race and Ride Reports"><U><B>Race and Ride Reports</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="02ad2c00dkelyh.gif"> <div> <A HREF="id164.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Race and Ride Reports"><U><IMG SRC="03b0e0e0.gif" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>   <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14">     <A HREF="id171.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Title 171"><U><IMG SRC="02f0e0e0.gif" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>  <A HREF="id173.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Title 173"><U><IMG SRC="0300e0e0.gif" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <B>MS 150 Report</B></div> <div> <B>... James Sides</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> I guess Mike's south east wind-anti-rain dance worked. It was a great weather weekend. We ended up starting nearly at the end which meant the whole team passed roughly 5,000 riders (at least since there were over 10,000). I pulled for about 20 or so miles out of Houston, sounds impressive but it is so flat you do not even know you have been riding that long. I am also really good at yelling out "On your Left" or "Left side" which is suppose to get the reaction of the cyclist in front to move right on the road, but ocassionally they hear a direciton and move that way into your line. We got flipped off once by an older guy and hear the same comment we heard last year "You still have 90 miles to go" and I had the same response "That is why we are only going 20mph buddy". The whole team did real well and we had a lot of fun. I only heard two complaints: Josh's butt hurt on after lunch on the scond day and made us want to get there a little sooner. Betsy could not find her 25 tooth in back on her 12x23 cassette in the state parks the second day. By the way the MS150 is not 150, we raise $300 minimum and and ride 177 or so miles total. It used to be raise $150 and ride 150 miles. I guess inflation changes the distances as well. </div> <div> By the way, Betsy did her longest ride on Saturday 102 miles. Also, by the way, Betsy did her second longest ride on Sunday, 75 miles. And yet, still, by the way, Betsy did not really get in but two rides on Tuesday and Wednesday before the ride for the whole two weeks prior. She still did the whole ride at a very respectible pace on both days with out stopping very much at all. If we are not careful and she actually trains more next year, she may do it all in one day. </div> <div> I ended up with 195 miles for the week end as I had to ride from the finish line with my back pack home. </div> <div> All those on the team that ended up going are: </div> <div> Josh Wender (Doesn't like to get out of the saddle on steep climbs and still passes you) </div> <div> Greg Goldman (Likes to do just enough training to finish the ride) </div> <div> Betsy Roll (True gritt can cary you further than training sometimes) </div> <div> Stephanie Rowland (Out grew her bike on the ride on Saturday-growth spurt) </div> <div> Victor Koots (I should have gotten that carbon fork for my CAAD 3) </div> <div> Tom Vo (I will be too slow for you guys-yet stayed ahead of us nearly the entire time) </div> <div> Tenille Abrams (Did someone say "Cerveza") </div> <div> Jim Bateman (I think I will ride a century the day before my soccer game championship) </div> <div> Rider yet to be identified that was in the new REI jersey. </div> <div> I guess my caption would be "Likes to take 20 mile or so pulls and then realizes later that he worked too hard". </div> <div> Thanks to John Leader and Wade that met us out on the course on Sunday.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>