There were two races this weekend, both down in Chesapeake, VA.  Only a small portion of the road team ventured southeast, Sharon was the loan Rostello rep at the criterium, while a few more showed for the Age Graded TT.

Sharon is in the hunt for the Women’s Master’s BAR,  this year so the advise going into Saturday’s race was to sit in, do as little as possible and finish in the top ten.  Plus, mark the other 40+ gals she needed to beat and do your best to beat them in the final sprint.  It helps with the competition’s plan sort of supports your plan.  BJ Samual and Jane Seymour are the main ladies chasing Sharon in the BAR.  BJ tried to push the tempo during the opeing laps of the crit with Jane up front helping.  Well the field was not having any of that and though the pace kept the peleton in a single file, BJ and Jane didn’t not establish a break.  Sharon sat about 12th wheel the entire race.  With about 3 to go a group of 5 got off the front and opened up a little gap, mainly do to great team work by another team.  Sharon came out of the last corner about 15th and managed to move up a few places, finishing 10th overall, 1st 40+.

Sunday was a different story.  Mark Pye found a crack in his TT machine on THURSDAY, well to tell you how great a team we have, everyone that was either on vacation or just not planning on doing the TT, offered Mark their bike… Rostello, you guys rock.  Mark ended up spending Saturday tweeking his position on Bryan’s bike… So Sunday morning found the Rostello “team bus” Mark Pye, Pam Webb, Bill Battle and Sharon warming up for the Age Graded TT. Bill Battle went off first, had difficulting clipping in.. BUT still managed a 54:40, which  got him a  top 10 place in his age group.  Sharon was next and had trouble coming off the ramp, this time to the left side of the ramp, but managed to keep it up right and a 2nd place finish in the women’s 45+ group with a 1:00:33.  Mark was next, he had a flawless start and was flying, then he felt the seat move, and then the seat really moved to almost a vertical position.  Mark took the high ground and did a U-turn.  Being safe and staying up right are so much more important than finishing a race.  Pam was last to go off and she SOARed like the rocket she is.  When almost everyone else’s times were SLOWER than previous PLT’s PAM did a 59:36.  She took 2nd in the women’s CAT 4 to ladies easily 10 years younger.  Pam is really turning into a TT speicalist.

Only a couple of races left on the calendar, including the VA State Senior TT which we promote, so see you there.