Jay and Nate Compete at the Augusta Stop of The Georgia Cup
Written by Jay Charles
Nate and I converged on Augusta to do some GA cup bike racing over the weekend. The race was a 75 mile road race on a hilly military base in Augusta, GA in the hot sun. At least we started at 9 am and the distance was cut down from the planned 90 miles.
Nate and I lined up with about 50 or so others and were off and racing. I had a bit of a delay since I started by riding around a cone by the start line, not realizing that the rf transponder attached to my fork, had to physically pass over the line for me to be counted. After riding back to the line and crossing it, I chased back on with another rider who did the same thing I did. Nate saw my predicament and had drifted to the back of the field in case I needed help pacing back on, leaving us out of position to cover the early moves. On the 2nd 15 mile lap at about mile 20, I managed to bridge across to the early break solo, making it six riders, representing six different teams. Diego Garavito (?) and Phillip Gaimon(CRCA Sakonnet) were there, but this group was missing most of the big contenders We worked pretty well together, and pushed the gap up to 2:15 on the field pretty quickly. We seemed to be pulling away, or maybe we were just being left out there to bake in the 90+ degree sun.
