Author: Tom Saccone

I missed yesterday’s session because I was able to race at Mass Ave in Indianapolis.  The team had a good showing in the events that we participated in.  Nick Torrance won the Category 5 event (State Champion!) and Mark Powell was 3rd.  Lanie Deppe was top ten in the Women’s 4 and Gary Palmer and I had a field showing (with some flashes at the front!) in the Masters group.  Other local riders had good results as well in our 27 mph Master’s category, Chris Kroll, Bob Brooks and Tom Cox were either in the breaks or pulling us to them.  The pro 1/2 event was at 7:30 that night but Scholars Inn didn’t have any riders pre-registered for this state championship race.

It’s remarkable to note sometimes the cumulative affect of compound training.  Hours on the bike become days of training, become months of scheduled cycling designed to move us from one phase to the next, become years of high quality miles.  More importantly, these miles become years of a brotherhood that becomes woven into the fabric of who we are and the people that we ride with become part of the text of our lives and the source of the memories that make us what we are.  

I drove to the start today.  It was getting late at the office and I missed my deadline to get home, dress and cycle to the Sample gates for 6pm.  So I dressed at home and drove to the course, but not without taking several frustrating u-turns and shortcuts around the bypass and Pete Ellis Drive.  I ended up parking at A Summer House and cycling over to the Eastside Bakehouse to get two bags of Granola.  I enjoy parking the bike out front and walking in wearing my race kit, cleats clicking across the floor.  Heads turning, conversations stopping.  It’s a good feeling knowing that your representing something other than just riding a bike.  it’s something that I don’t take for granted.  When I am in the Kit it’s like I am an  employee, a cycling consultant to the Scholars Inn Bakehouse.  It’s something that I am proud of.