GamJams.net: Where Mid-Atlantic bike racers roll: Could'a, Should'a, Would'a p/b RGS Title: 07-13-10

Here's how this weekend's racing could'a, should'a, and would'a turned out if it hadn't'a turned out the way it did...

Saturday was the MABRA Senior Criterium Championship at the Hagerstown Challenge Criterium:

Avery Wilson and Lance Armstrong, two peas in a pod: both got caught up in three wrecks and finished "40th or so." (But Avery raced again the next day while Lance took a "Rest Day.")
Velomatic tells you up front that his result is a DNS. Still, you will read because you, like me, are a nosy bastage at heart and can't wait to see what sort of bad thing happened to someone else.
Commitment is the name of the game for Nick Versus Gravity; he even commits himself to sugar free primes in the effort to get the upper hand on gravity.
Here's a new face on the blogging circuit: Capital Region Fire and Police. It's cool to find a new blog that starts out with such great results.
The Flamenco Chuckwagon got a close up view of what might become "the stuff of urban legends." I don't want to point fingers, but I know what he saw and I feel like it touched him quite deeply.
The answers to MykeCycle's questions (lessons) are -- in my opinion -- yes, yes, yes, and no.

Down in the Richmond area, they got the Bryan Park Circuit Race up and running (after much difficulty and a very dedicated promoter):

The Vanderkittens were a little disappointed with the small field, but you can't race the ones that don't show up. So they did some damage to those who did just for good measure.
The boys of Kazane Racing were all over the place this weekend, taking home prize money from several venues while Stratton enjoyed the Gran Fondo.
How do you follow up 6th at Hagerstown? If you're CRFPC, you go ahead and repeat on Sunday.
"Will sprint for burrito!" That's the lesson for anyone hoping to bring Tradewinds Racing to their venue.

Some folks made the trip up to the Iron Hill Twillight Criterium:

When your booties match your leader's jersey, you know you are racing in the big leagues. That's how Treads.com/DFT 2010 rolled on Saturday.
Andrew Armstrong was barely hanging on (to his handlebars, that is).

Sunday was the much anticipated arrival of pro-level racing in DC with the Capital Criterium (now where's all the much anticipated blogging action?):

The Raw Talent Ranch is my new favorite poet on the racing blog scene. His mix of "angles and efforts ... adrenalin and exhaustion" is what I'd call refined stream-of-consciousness.

Of course, there was a little leftover business from the Fourth of July ID3 Races down in Roanoke:

Cycor Cycling says she tail gunned and marked her nearest rivals. It worked and she met her goals for the weekend.
Another team that crushed it this weekend was the Tradewinds Racing. Don't read this report if you don't want to know how to seal the deal at the end of technical crit.

Now, there's got to be more race reports out there! Really it probably doesn't count as an official race if you don't blog about it. So, send your links to me so I can update this report.

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Gus Grissom races for Team GamJams Racing, teaches Greek and Latin at DeMatha Catholic High School, and writes a dissertation in his spare time. He compiles this column strictly for fortune and glory.