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Sunday, July 14, 2013

It's the Month of the Tour de France

For some of us, time stops for the Tour de France.  For others, they shift into another gear.  Aaron Barr is gearing up for Mountain Bike Nationals at Bear Creek Resort in Macungie, PA, for his Mountain Bike team sponsor and Tyler and Amanda Swords will be sporting the Swashbuckler colors at Bear Creek.  Check out the schedule to watch or for volunteering.    http://www.usacycling.org/2013/cross-country-mountain-bike

So let's see, I am a bit behind on the race reports for the team so I will provide some pictures as the summary.  Aaron Barr won most of his category 4 races that he was forced to upgrade to Category 3.  His first race as a category 3 race was for the Race Avenue Criterium which was sponsored by Audi Lancaster for 2013.  A bunch of us had bets Aaron Barr would take the win but he wasn't sure if he could manage the win.  The race was animated with a bunch of attacks and Jonathan Glick (Shirks Bike Shop) got away with another racer and drove it until Aaron bridged up and took the win.

In the category 5 races, Scott Bowser finished within the top 5 for most of his finishes. We picked up another rider, Jason Lindemuth a few weeks before Race Avenue Criterium and he and Scott mixed up the category 5 race up with Jason taking the win, too.

Jason Roth also raced the road trying to balance life, work, road cycling and triathlon racing and all the training involved.  He did very well since triathlons is his first sport and rode racing is a great complement to his tri training.  There is so much more to learn and experience in road racing where he and his teammates can work together on strategy and tactics while having a blast trying to figure it all out.  Check out his blog for his race reports as I don't want to put any more words into his mouth.  :-)  swimbikerundrink.blogspot.com

Amanda and her brother Tyler have been doing the mountain bike circuit as they too, will be racing at Mountain Bike Nationals next week.

The team is having a great season racing and hopefully the humidity will break for the last few months of the road racing season.  Enjoy the last week of the Tour de France and see you on the road soon.

These pictures are from the Race Avenue Criterium







1 comment:

  1. Hey, just found the blog. Great race that day! Congrats to team.

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