VA was written about in the last Community Cycling Center newsletter.
Good job VA!
Pausing to remember a cyclist
10 years ago
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
still riding
No time to blog, but yes, we are finding time to ride. Cookie Ride two weekends ago with a Portland Velo group for a fast average pace of 21.5 for 62+ miles; Ride Around Clark County last Saturday (100 miles) and then today, a quick ride up Larch Mountain with a few Velo folks and friends. The gate is still closed to traffic and we were only able to ride about 1/2 mile past it due to snow up there.
My friends, Judi, her daughter Annie and another friend, Barb leave next week to ride part of the Giro and also watch a day of the tour. We leave June 2nd to ride in Northern Spain, the Cantabrian Challenge, for 7 days. Both Thompson Tours. Shut up and ride.
I think every cyclist has been affected by the death of the young Belgian rider, Wouter Weylandt, in the 3rd stage of the Giro yesterday. Tyler Farrar of Washington State dropped out of the Giro. The two were best friends and training partners in Ghent, Belgium, where Farrar had settled to train.
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| Mike, Barb, KRhea, VA & Steve |
My friends, Judi, her daughter Annie and another friend, Barb leave next week to ride part of the Giro and also watch a day of the tour. We leave June 2nd to ride in Northern Spain, the Cantabrian Challenge, for 7 days. Both Thompson Tours. Shut up and ride.
I think every cyclist has been affected by the death of the young Belgian rider, Wouter Weylandt, in the 3rd stage of the Giro yesterday. Tyler Farrar of Washington State dropped out of the Giro. The two were best friends and training partners in Ghent, Belgium, where Farrar had settled to train.
Velonews published an account from RadioShack rider Manuel Cardoso who saw Wouter’s crash:
Cardoso was trailing Weylandt near the bottom of the Passo del Bocco with about 25km to go when he saw the big Belgian crash.
RadioShack press attaché Philippe Maertens released this e-mail to VeloNews on what Cardoso saw: “Wouter was dropped and tried to come back to the group,” Maertens wrote of Cardoso’s reaction. “(Weylandt) then looked behind to see if he would be better to wait for other dropped riders (some 20). While looking behind, he hit with his left pedal or the left side of his handlebars on a small wall and was catapulted to the other side of the road when he hit again something. It must have been terrible.”Cardoso later finished in a group of riders at 3:20 back that also included Leopard-Trek rider Tom Stamsnijder, who also saw his teammate fall. “I saw him crash,” Stamsnijder said at the line. “It was a very hard fall.”
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