Every weekday during the month of October the Aggies will be leading casual, "no-drop" rides along 20 miles of flat roads south of Davis. A strict 19 mph speed limit will be enforced; as coach Judd Van Sickle said, "If you want to hammer, go someplace else!"

Come out and meet the team, practice riding with a group, and enjoy the perfect October weather. We depart from the bike barn at 3:15. Helmets and brakes are mandatory.

Route map, usually rides clockwise.

In the Road Race the men's B's started off at a moderate clip in a double pace line. Ten miles out the hills started kicking up and people started attacking.

Anthony, Adam and I all contributed to a couple of them to get the pace going. By the top of the hill (18 miles in) about a third of the pack had been dropped. Adam kept the pace strong down the backside of the hill, but no one was interested in a serious early attack so we let the rest of the pack catch up by the turn around. Read More...

This past weekend Nate Anderson, Emily Foxman, Adam Smith and I traveled to Lancaster and Pearblossom to race the UCLA time trial and road race. Here is the report.

Saturday's Individual Time Trial (ITT)
Adam and Nate had lobbied for a 4am start in order to get down to Lancaster in plenty of time for the race. At 4:20 Adam woke me up by knocking on my door. While we were struggling to get the bikes on the car, Nate called to say he had just got up at 4:50. We eventually hit the road at 5:30am.

Six hours later we arrived in spacious Lancaster and registered for 12:45ish start times. This gave us plenty of time to warmup, yet somehow Adam, Nate and I only managed about 15 minutes on the bike. I'm glad at least Emily had it together. The weather was in the 70s with a slight cross-head on the way out and a nice cross-tail on the way back. Perfect for this almost-flat course. Read More...

The mountain bike season opener hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno at the Sky Tavern ski area ended up being a busy, four-event weekend. A light blanket of snow covered the trails on Friday night, making the race course absolutely beautiful for the first event on Saturday, the classic cross country. The men’s squad did well considering Davis sits at a measly 50’ and the race course traversed trails going from 7000’ to 8500’. For the Men’s A category, Danny Stuart finished 5th and Anthony Santamaria 6th. Karl Schwartz and Corey Guebles took 10th and 15th in the Men’s B race, respectively. The Women’s A squad represented Davis very well, with Corina Bigham taking 1st and Lisa Avchincloss taking 2nd for a clean sweep of the podium! Read More...

In the morning, we contested the qualifying heats for the finals to be held in the evening. This was a tricky race because everyone wanted to qualify, but nobody was willing to go hard for long because of the finals in the evening. It made for some very unpredictable racing.

I discovered that I had the wrong gear on (oops), so I couldn't do anything in the sprints because people were flying by me when I was spinning what seemed like 200 rpm. After a few failed sprint attempts I got tired of all the other racers and attacked right after a sprint. Another rider came with me (who also happened to have no sprint power) and we ended up lapping the field without too much trouble (editor's note: winning a sprint earns a racer 5 points, but lapping the field is good for 20). Because it was the qualifying heat, I didn't want to expend any more energy, so I sat on the back of the pack and picked my nose for the last 10 laps or so. I ended up winning the heat because of the points we picked up off the front. Read More...