First race of the season for the five of us. Carrie and I headed to Indy and met up with our teamies to finish the trip to California. Kentucky. Just south of Cincinnati. Today’s race was 40+ miles of the hilliest “flat” course I’ve seen in a while.

The five of us went off with a men’s field where Bri and Katie mixed it up with some attacks. Fun stuff. Carrie took a pedal or skewer or some phantom object to her wheel less than 10 miles into the race…enough to bend a few spokes and wank her wheel. Not enough to crash, not enough to blow it out, but enough that 20 guys made sure to point out her wheel might be out of true. She was a trooper and rode nearly 40 miles with her brake rubbing in a spot the whole time. The term “trooper” somehow seems an understatement…

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With 4-5 miles to go, Bri was off the front with a few strong guys and it looked good to stick. But not enough cooperation in that group let the field catch them with half mile to go. Still a strong finish for everyone and we’re excited for tomorrow’s “hilly” course, seeing as how today’s was so flat (not).

Giddy up!

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• Loebig (LOW’ big)
• Category 2 Road, 2 Track, 3 Cyclocross
• Student
• Likes: reading, cooking, racing, coffee, wheat beer, hammocks,
• summertime, crosswords
• Dislikes: laziness, slowness, wastefullness
• Fears: the state of the health care system, failure, getting old
• Movies: Almost Famous, Overcoming, Superbad, Pretty in Pink, White Christmas
• Admires: Ayn Rand, Mahatma Gandhi, Rosa Parks, John Lennon
• Bookmarked: www.cyclingnews.com, www.weather.com, www.iub.edu,
• www.foodnetwork.com

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• Category 2 Road, 3 Track
• Student
• Likes: fixies, mountains (particularly the descending part), loud  music, driving with the windows down, recycling, thrift stores, swimming
• Dislikes: bad manners, people with no work ethic, unfriendliness, ice-chewing, burping
• Fears: rushing water, the 60 seconds of take-off and landing  in an airplane
• Movies: twister, almost famous, domino, orange county, american beauty
• Admires: wyclef jean, bill clinton
• Bookmarked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mg1U0_2eLg
• www.steepandcheap.com

• Category 2 Road
• Student
• Likes: swimming and long walks on the beach
• Dislikes: beaches as ashtrays
• Fears: riptides
• Movies: Beaches, Tommy Boy
• Admires: Hulk Hogan
• Bookmarked: http://www.cadencecollection.com/

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• Pediatrician and Internist
• Likes: staying active, wind rushing through my hair, piano, boxer dogs
• Dislikes: being bored, riding inside, lack of attention to detail, drunken cookies
• Fears: spinal cord injury, getting old and fat, getting so absorbed in career that there’s no time for life
• Movies: who has time for ‘em?
• Bookmarked: www.google.com and www.utdol.com 

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• Bri (like the cheese) Kovac
• Category 1 Road, 1 Track
• Attorney (business litigator)
• Likes: Alternative music, mike & ikes, racing my bike, wakeboarding, painful training rides, euchre, chips & salsa, big fuzzy slippers, anything creative and crafty, playing on the computer, reading
• Dislikes: Being late, laziness, irresponsibility, bad shoes, oversleeping, insincerity, pretentiousness
• Fears: Fish, failure, suffering because i’m out of shape
• Television: House, the Sopranos, Bones, Project Runway
• Admires: People who take the time to make a difference - for a cause, or in other people’s lives

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