Osceola Velo Club Updates

19 Dec 2009 - Osceola Velo Club's Pat Schlager, Dave Zak, and newest club member Jeff Blain lined up for the 3rd race of the Drew Landing Criterium Winter Training Series held just south of Clermont, FL in the cold, windy, and overcasted early morning winter weather.  The strong WNW winds prevented any attacks from sticking, so the B-race peloton stayed pretty much together throughout the 40-minute race.  Jeff B. moved around within the peloton staying sheltered from the wind, while Pat S. occasionally went to the front for a pull and even for an attack with 2 laps to go.  Pat's plan was to string out the field allowing Jeff to sit in and possible try a final-lap counter-attack, but the field wasn't biting and simply left Pat off the front to tire on his own.  Jeff saved his energy for the uphill final sprint and despite being slightly boxed in, crossed the line in 6th place, thus scoring one point in the Winter Training Series.  Great racing, team!  Check out the photos.

11 Apr 2009 - Osceola Velo Club's Pat Schlager was on hand for the truely one-of-a-kind Webster-Roubaix Road Race held on the rural roads near Webster, FL.  What makes this race so unique is the 2.5 km of unpaved roadway each 15 km lap.  That and the distaces -- the Pro/1/2 category raced for a grueling 180 km.  Fortunately for Pat S., the combined Cat 3/4 race in which he participated raced for a mere 105 km, which meant "only" 7 times over the unforgiving "hard packed dirt road" (as per the race flyer).  In reality, the final 1 km of the unpaved section was anything but "hard packed" with racer skidding and sliding left and right as they tried to negotiate the soft sandy surface.  Pat put in a gallant effort, stayed upright (barely, at times), and ended up finishing 26th out the Cat 4's which earned him 10 points in the season-long Florida Points Series (FPS) as well as in the Florida Cup Series, a subdivision of the FPS reserved for the "epic" Florida races.  That makes a grand total of 22 FPS points for Pat so far in 2009!

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