GamJams.net: Where Mid-Atlantic bike racers roll: Jefferson Cup Race Reports: "I had good sensations."

That's what the pros say when they're interviewed after an early-season race they didn't win, isn't it? "The sensations were good so I am happy with the way my form is progressing. I'll be ready for (insert name of NEXT early-season race here) where I hope for a good result."

Here's what some of this year's competitors had to say about their Jefferson Cup sensations:

On Cycling: "The high point of my day was lobbing a water bottle to Chris Hayes."
Aphex Nexus: "I had been told east coast racers are of a higher calibre than Michigan roadies and that has certainly rung true at least for this race. They defiantly pushed the pace.."
Timothy Christopher Hargrave: "With 2k to go I had more than halved the gap and I thought I had them. The final turn and a spectator yells, 'Yea man, you got it. 8 sec'. I was well in the hurt box, and dug deeper..."
Ride it Like you Stole it: "i'm just glad no one crashed me out."
Sim Jetlag: "The racing was frankly soft. Everyone raced defensively and no one grabbed the bull by the horns and got on with it. There were some teams who had a bunch of riders in the field. And I believe that the Richmond Pro Cycling team actually have a couple guys who have spent some time in Belgium. Why either Richmond, Kelly or Harley Davidson cycling team didn't just get to the front, wind it up on a hill, put everyone in the gutter with the cross-winds, nail it over the top, line us all out, hit us right and left and split the entire field apart still baffles me."
The Robot Diary: "My plan was to sit in for the first 30 miles, and go with dangerous moves after that. This part of the plan went perfectly..."
gay (bike) racer: "Some folks need to get to leg-shavin. It's almost April for crying out loud."
Chuck Hutch: "On the 4th lap I tried to shatter the field on the rise past the start finsh, and even manage to string it out and break it up into little groups, but before the next hill most everyone was back. On that same lap I got away with Mike Githens and we were drilling it..."
good time cycling blog: "Fast forward to the last lap. I decide that I'm going to attack and at the same time a Harley rider did the same. So, it was two Harley riders, a Kelly Benefit rider, and myself in a small break away. I guess we had about 10 seconds on the field going through the start/finish area and it looked like a legit break. But, it wasn't."
Jimmy James and Bikes: "This field was brutal and very fluid with riders constantly changing lines and battling for position. I was doing well following Tim from VT and trying to just survive with the intense changings in tempo. The line when strecthed out was HUGE..."
DRIVE FASTER ALSTUBLIEFT: "Starters = 125 riders = INSANE. Aggressive level = 5. Sketchyness = 5. Cramping Lap = 5. Place = 30..."
Cyclist @ Law: "Greg Abbott rode up to me at that point and asked me to shadow him and make sure he kept contact with the field. Greg is a teammate, a great sprinter and given the conditions of the day it was likely that the race would come down to a field sprint.."
Something totally lame: "This definitely isn't how I wanted to look after Jeff Cup. Sorry for the nudie magazine pic..."
haters ride their bikes slower: "A flat!!!! ugh... no neutral support at all. The field rolls by and one of the girls stops and gives me her wheel. If you know Anna Kelso(sp?) you are lucky cause I found out yesterday that she is super nice."
Chain Free: "About that time I hear this awful bike on asphalt noise coming from my rear left. I didn’t look since I was fixated on the line and had just jumped out of the saddle to sprint..."
Avery's Blog: "I think the main reason for which I got dropped was because my quantity of miles covered in a one hour trial of timing effort (some people may use the phrase "Miles per Hour") decreased significantly during this final lap to such an extent that everyone else's one hour time trial effort miles output quantity number was greater than that of mine."
Signal 13: "At some point on last 4, the last lap, a group got off the front. I had no idea this group was away. I knew there were two people up the road that were still in sight and I figured we would catch them on the final stretch to the finish, which we did. But, apparently there were two more guys in front of them."