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		<title>Bike Racing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You could say this is a mid-season reflection of sorts. I could not be happier with the team and all the support we have received this year between the management and sponsors. This is my first year as a cat 2 and it was a big jump, although fairly smooth. I do have a lot [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You could say this is a mid-season reflection of sorts. I could not be happier with the team and all the support we have received this year between the management and <a href="http://www.verizoncyclingteam.com/supporters/">sponsors</a>.</p>
<p>This is my first year as a cat 2 and it was a big jump, although fairly smooth. I do have a lot to work on still but with all the experienced people that have surrounded me this season it has helped so much.</p>
<p>Ten things i have learned so far this season&#8230;</p>
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<li>Putting your shoes in the washer is ok, just add some other clothes or towels and they come out super clean.</li>
<li>Take the extra pedal stroke or two to hold your position or move up, it saves a lot in the long run.</li>
<li>Tegaderm is expensive.</li>
<li>Tubasti glue is messy.</li>
<li>Regular brake pads blow in the rain on carbon rims.</li>
<li>Be thankful to host housing and you will be invited back.</li>
<li>Hydrate&#8230;it actually does help.</li>
<li>Great teammates are awesome and make racing so much more enjoyable.</li>
<li>Be selfless.</li>
<li>Be grateful, your racing a freaking bike.</li>
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		<title>Memorial Day &#8217;10 Videos</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Justin Teichen put together two great videos of last weekend and the Snake Alley Crit. Check them out: Memorial Weekend Races from Verizon Wireless u25 Cycling on Vimeo. May 29, 2010 &#8211; Snake Alley from Verizon Wireless u25 Cycling on Vimeo. View “Memorial Day Weekend Races” in HD on Vimeo. View “Snake Alley Crit” in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/user685961">Justin Teichen</a> put together  two great videos of last weekend and the Snake Alley Crit. Check them  out:</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/12319001">Memorial Weekend Races</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3757214">Verizon Wireless u25 Cycling</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/12308359">May 29, 2010 &#8211; Snake Alley</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3757214">Verizon Wireless u25 Cycling</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/12319001">View “Memorial Day Weekend  Races” in HD on Vimeo</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/12308359">View “Snake Alley Crit” in HD  on Vimeo</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going into this weekend I was extremely excited to head out to Iowa with the guys and race. I have never done the entire thing, &#8220;thing&#8221; being Burlington Road Race, Snake Alley, Melon City, and Quad Cities. I had only done the latter two of the four. I wasn&#8217;t really sure what to expect of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Going into this weekend I was extremely excited to head out to Iowa with the guys and race. I have never done the entire thing, &#8220;thing&#8221; being Burlington Road Race, Snake Alley, Melon City, and Quad Cities. I had only done the latter two of the four.</p>
<p>I wasn&#8217;t really sure what to expect of the Burlington Road Race but was extremely excited to hear that it had a rolling enclosure for the course. I am guilty of not reading about races and going in blind on distance/course description. We rolled off pretty calm and I made it a point to stay at the front as much as I could which was surprisingly easy. Two guys were off right from the gun and had a few minute gap on the field. Will decided that the race was extremely boring (which it was) and attacked to bridge up to the other two guys with no one following. He did make it up there and stuck it out for a well deserved third, but not with the two original guys. About 15 miles to go Hogan flatted and Ryan got a skewer sent through his front wheels spoke. I saw him throw his hand up and seeing that the wheel truck was rather far back I stopped and gave him my front wheel. It was another three minutes before I received another wheel and the field was long gone. I strolled in those last 15 by myself.</p>
<p>Coming home from dinner Friday evening Mike wanted to show us the snake, well for those of us that hadn&#8217;t seen it. I was honestly amazed by it, we drove up it and could tell I would be in for a brutal day the next day. We toed the line with pretty solid starting spots being 20-24&#8230;Although that didn&#8217;t help me enough. When Sherer and John told me I needed to sprint all out from the gun to get up to the front they were not kidding, I definitely did not put in the effort I should have and was behind the split in the field after the first/second lap. It continued to splinter and I was pulled 11 laps in of the 20. It was definitely an eye opening first Snake Alley experience.</p>
<div id="attachment_418" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/IMGP5782.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-418" title="After Snake" src="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/IMGP5782-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">After the Snake</p></div>
<p>Sunday we finally had a race that I had done once before last year as a 3. I didn&#8217;t feel to hot at the beginning of the race and it took me an extremely long time to get up to the front. It wasn&#8217;t necessarily a hard pace but my body just was not all there. I finally got up front(ish) towards the last quarter of the race hoping to help out however I could but finally noticed Sherer was not in the field anymore, he had taken a spill with two to go. I was not in the best position going into the last lap and ended up taking 26th for the day while Ryan killed it in the break for 5th place.</p>
<div id="attachment_419" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 209px"><a href="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/IMGP5794.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-419" src="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/IMGP5794-199x300.jpg" alt="" width="199" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Check out the white hands</p></div>
<p>This was my third time doing Quad Cities, twice prior as a three. I was very happy that the rain had moved through because I was not looking forward to doing this race with eight turns in the rain. I had an awesome starting spot all the way in the back. This is where the younger generation does not know of this so called post office where your supposed to mail in registration? What happened to the whole inter-tubes sort of deal with registering online? Anyways, it made it a rather big chore to get up front. About 15 laps in I finally made it up there and that was the last time I truly saw the front. This was unfortunate because it was much easier up there than sitting 20-30 wheels back. I&#8217;m not sure what it was but I have to be much more aggressive and never get comfortable where I&#8217;m at because this was brought to my attention this weekend, once that happens you go backwards. After lots of jockeying for position and some sketchy sprint point laps I failed to get up front on the final laps and rolled in for 40th after a few blazing fast last few laps.</p>
<p>This weekend was definitely good exposure to faster racing and what is in store for TOAD. One thing I did want to get up here was Sunday evening at the lodge we stayed at there was a piano in the main area for the lack of a better term&#8230;Anyways I walked out there to see Danny and Sherer watching the person playing. It was Justin (our awesome videographer intern), and he is sick on the piano. You can&#8217;t see anything with the video below but you can at least hear him&#8230;This weekend was a lot of fun and I cannot thank Mike Ebert and Billy Dwyer enough for making all of this happen, it is definitely a great group of guys and is always a great time hanging out with them with all the shenanigans. Watch out for the webisodes Justin is putting together for us, there should be one coming out shortly.</p>
<p>He did a lot of messing around for the two minutes I shot but overall he played for about a half hour.</p>
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<p>P.S. If you want to read something actually a bit entertaining with a good writing style head <a href="http://john-meyers.com/index.php?entry=entry100601-213227">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Vernon Hills Bridge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 21:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out Drubers effort I was talking about bridging up to the split &#8211;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check out Drubers effort I was talking about bridging up to the split &#8211;</p>
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		<title>Vernon Hills Grand Prix 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 04:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Waylon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dad decided to come out to Vernon Hills with me today &#8212; and I don&#8217;t think I could have had a better race for him to watch. Its always nice when he comes along because he only see&#8217;s a couple of races a year and he drives me which allows me to relax on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My dad decided to come out to Vernon Hills with me today &#8212; and I don&#8217;t think I could have had a better race for him to watch. Its always nice when he comes along because he only see&#8217;s a couple of races a year and he drives me which allows me to relax on the way to the race.</p>
<p>I arrived to the race a decent amount ahead of time so Ebert could hook up the <a href="http://www.vio-pov.com/">VIO POV</a> camera&#8217;s to Will&#8217;s and my bike. It was pretty creative with putting the head unit in a saddle bag with a hole in it to allow the cable to come through. After getting everything settled we all rolled to the start line.</p>
<div id="attachment_402" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/saddle.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-402" title="saddle" src="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/saddle-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Saddle bag w/ head unit for camera</p></div>
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<p>Brian Dziewa had a nice attack right from the gun which allowed us to loosen the legs a bit and not worry about too much. After that got brought back a little later there was a decent split in the field with me being in the latter. Will and Freund were up with the first but as Druber said &#8220;I&#8217;m not the brightest guy in the world but I do know it&#8217;s near 100% true that  you&#8217;ll never win a race from the second group on the road.&#8221; &#8212; He proceeded to attack the second group and I followed &#8212; I was honestly scared with the amount of power he was putting out bridging the gap&#8230;- Ebert I want to see the video of that effort.</p>
<div id="attachment_396" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/druber-bridge.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-396" title="Druber Bridging" src="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/druber-bridge-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Druber towing Seth and myself up</p></div>
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<p>It wasn&#8217;t long after Druber brought me up to the first group that I went off with the break that stuck to the end. We had been rolling around for a few laps and I was hoping either Will or Freund would bridge and sure enough I look back and Will is flying up to us. After that we started to work &#8212; soon enough we only had about 5 to go and Will started attacking, no one allowing to get him away I could tell he was definitely putting a dent in their legs and a few started to struggle to close a few of the gaps that were left open chasing him down. With one to go I was expecting it to come down to a sprint but I look back after I went to the front right before the first turn to take a pull and I had a small gap and no one was closing it. I took the opportunity and went for it and managed to hold it to the line and Will taking a very well deserved third &#8212; me winning would not have happened without Will attacking the break at the end so much. All in all it was probably the most fun I have ever had racing.</p>
<p>Now for some pictures which are much better than my writing capabilities &#8212; Also all credit on photos here go to Ed White. You can find his flikr here: <span><a href="redir.aspx?C=b015dd16752c45318de51423d73a3b18&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fflickr.com%2fewwhite" target="_blank">http://flickr.com/ewwhite</a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/finish.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-397" title="finish" src="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/finish-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/finish.jpg"></a><a href="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/post1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-398" title="Post1" src="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/post1-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/post3.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-399" title="post3" src="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/post3-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a></p>
<div id="attachment_400" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/post2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-400 " title="Will &amp; Me" src="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/post2-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Probably my favorite picture w/ Will celebrating</p></div>
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<p><a href="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/will.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-401" title="Will" src="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/will-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a></p>
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		<title>MSU/UM Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark and I made it to the hotel first only to get dibs on the best room we ((I)Thanks IIT) had reserved, the King Suite at the Holiday Inn in Howell, MI. It actually was not half bad &#8211; the hotel did look rather new though. I was not sure what to think or expect [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mark and I made it to the hotel first only to get dibs on the best room we ((I)Thanks IIT) had reserved, the King Suite at the Holiday Inn in Howell, MI. It actually was not half bad &#8211; the hotel did look rather new though.</p>
<p>I was not sure what to think or expect about the road race on Saturday which consisted of a 4.4 mile loop with a 1.2 mile section of dirt road and my field doing 13 laps. After making it through the dirt section initially I decided that it was not going to be fun repeating that multiple times with the field. I saw Scott Rosenfield (Northwestern) about to make a move 2ish miles into the race and I proceeded to follow. We made it up to a Lindsey Wilson rider then were joined by Greg Christian (MSU) &#8212; then a few others joined a little later in the race including Will Nowak, which was awesome to see after he had been out a while with his IT band.</p>
<p>We continued to work together for a while until a little more than two to go an attack went off on a slight kicker on the back side and I didn&#8217;t have the speed to match it anymore. I continued to do the last two laps myself, holding my own luckily&#8230;I rolled in for 6th which I was fairly happy about.</p>
<p><a href="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/2010-04-17-15.31.37.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-388" title="MSU Break" src="http://waylon.compsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/2010-04-17-15.31.37-300x224.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="224" /></a></p>
<p>Sundays Crit was hosted by University of Michigan in an Industrial park with two 90 degree corners and two sweepers. It was fairly fast at the beginning the proceeded to slow down after the winning break rolled off the front. It did not play out very well and the sprint got a little chaotic at the end and I am not sure how I ended up but nothing notable.</p>
<p>PS: Go check out Bells Eccentric Cafe in Kalamazoo Michigan.</p>
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		<title>Google Superbowl Commercial</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kidding&#8230;But it should have been aired. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EEPU65nF1U They started a channel for &#8220;Search Stories&#8221; commercials.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kidding&#8230;But it should have been aired.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EEPU65nF1U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EEPU65nF1U</a></p>
<p>They started a channel for &#8220;Search Stories&#8221; commercials.</p>
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