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Tour Da Northeast
Rennen/Intense regains team points lead
10
straight days of riding in the Northeast portion of the country, and
all within a seven hour drive! Back to back national race weekends, a
summer
camp and a pre national clinic. Now that’s how a team earns
it’s keep.
Our first stop was in Horseheads, NY (Find Binghampton, NY and head
West for another 70 miles. There you have reached the middle of
nowhere!)
for an ABA national. Friday’s rainy practice session
didn’t stop road trip attendees Courtney
Applewhite (17+ girls) and Austin
Loebe (16x) from picking up wins on Saturday and Sunday to help
Rennen/Intense to two Factory Team wins. Pat
Parker also picked up a pair of wins in 19-27 expert, while TJ
Maniscalchi (11x), and Myself (28-40x) scored seconds.
After Sunday’s mains we packed up and headed four hours East to
Bethel CT for our 6th annual summer camp. Kayla
Gaddis, Allen Currier,
Myself, Courtney and Austin headlined a great four day camp
experience. Day 1 saw 38 attendee’s, while rain on Tuesday cut into
that figure Wednesday and Thursday’s numbers ran right back up.
Thursday’s Precision Fitness training session left us all (campers
and instructors) a little drained, but most had something left in the
tank for a G-Cog testing session to conclude the camp.
Friday
morning we made the half hour jaunt over to Trumbull, CT for a mid day
pre national clinic and practice session. Once again the weekend of
national team racing was dominated by the Rennen/Intense squad.
Austin, Courtney and Pat once again took home a weekend double. On
this
weekend they had a little more help on the team sheet. Randy
Bitinaitis (40-44cru) controlled his class, as did Rochelle
Wooding (13 girls) and
her brother Ross (17-24 cru). Max Egdorf had little trouble in owning the 17-18 expert class as
well. Others in attendance in support of the team
were: Kelley Kelley (41+ X), George
Costa (26-34X), Kayla Gaddis (Elite Women), Dave Maltezos (26-25x), Nicole
Bitinaitis (11 girls) and even an appearance from “the” Justin Lopes (30+ open).
With
these two wins Rennen/Intense once again took control of the NBL
National Team overall point’s lead! Overall for the trip, four team
wins and
over 75 different kids giving instruction, not bad for 10 day
period.
Next up for the team is another ABA national event in Raleigh, NC in
Mid August, other then that we plan to rest (meaning tear up and local
money
open in sight), and heal up till the NBL year end show down in
Louisville, KY on Sept 3rd to the 6th.
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makers of the finest gears, chain rings, cogs and the ultimate
training tool “G-Cog”!
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makers of the ultimate racing frames and tires.
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by: Alienation, Black Crown designs, Cane Creek, Delta/Aztec,
Finish Line Lubes, FLY, Johnson BMX Plates, KMC,
Morphine Industries, ODI, PowerBar, SINZ, THE,
Thomson and Twenty6 products.
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BMX, Inc.
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