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Written by Andrew Freye
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Saturday, 10 September 2005 |
Since Aug 28th I have pretty much given my life over to the residential life department at USM. A week of Resident Assistant training consisting of the same stuff that I went over last year and non stop incidents with freshmen has been my life the past couple of weeks. Then on Friday the 9th the Sox and Yanks were playing so that was another late one along with Saturday night, with that said my expectations for today was to just survive.
I have three big goals for this season. 1. To beat Ben Moody (accomplished 8/14). 2. To beat Salem Mazzeway. 3. To win collegiate nationals. Today I was able to cross off number two on my list of goals! For some reason Mazzeway showed up at the EFTA race. (I guess Mazzeway is anti EFTA. He is weird like that.) The field was pretty stacked with a couple local pros and local super hero pro Mark McCormack ('03 US National Pro champ. Wicked fast roadie). The first lap and a half of the 10 mile loop was pretty laid back. No one wanted to take the lead so the pace wasn't anything too hard. Then McCormack attacked hard! I was the only one who was able to respond to the attack dropping the rest of the field. I stayed on McCormack's wheel for a couple of minutes then slowly fell off. McCormack was just too fast on the open sections for me to stay on his wheel. I road the entire 3rd lap chasing McCormack and holding off a charging Mazzeway.
I finished the race 2nd over all and 1st in the Senior I category. For some reason everybody's time got messed up along with placements. Not sure how that happened but after long hours of patient protesting, the placements got figured out but the times are probably never going to be figured out. I do know I was about 2-3 minutes behind McCormack and finished the race some where around 2:07-2:10.
All I need to do now is make sure my residents don't drink in my dorm and get caught up on some badly needed sleep and hopefully my 3rd goal can be accomplished. Oh yeah, I also need to hit the text books which is where I am heading off to now. Thanks for the support and I will keep everyone updated.
Andrew Freye, Team Bikeman
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