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ISO Fast in 2011: If you have some, why not race with GamJams next year?

Now that the GamJams Gossip Generator is up and running, it's time to start filling it up. We'll do our part by announcing the

Official 2011 GamJams Racing Recruitment Drive.

In 2011, we'll have two separate teams:

1. GamJams / Pre-Reg.com: A Cat 3 only squad with an unswerving focus on team objectives. If you're done hiding in the pack and saving yourself for the sprint and you're read to race towards a team goal on game day, you'll like what we're doing. And if you do expect to reach the upper categories, our aim is to get you there with some real team racing experience under your bibs. Team participation is by invitation only. Apply for GamJams/Pre-Reg.com by November 17th.
2. GS GamJams: An open racing club focused on the undercategory development, GS GamJams is the principal feeder for the GamJams / Pre-Reg.com Cat 3 team. GS GamJams is also the home of GamJams Women's Racing, which so far seems to appeal to women strong enough to chick the men's Cat 3 team on long climbs. Is that you? You'll fit right in. Join GS GamJams here.

Learn more about both squads here.

Rades Rolls Into Top-10 (9th? Who Knew? He Sure Didn't.)

 

Paul Rades, one of GamJams Racing most successful racers, spent last Sunday enjoying the course and the results in the DCCX Masters 1/2/3 race.  Though he was a bit hazy on his final results as the result of what can only be termed a "brain cloud," he was very clear on one thing: the DCCX is a great event and DCMTB really knows how to produce "a full-on rave,  where anyone from across the compression socks-compression jeans spectrum could grab a beer and a pancake, stretch out on the grass, and soak up some October fastness."

Rades' race began with a solid starting position on the second row.  This allowed him to hold a good spot through the prologue until another racer overcooked one of the turns leading into the barriers drag-strip, crashed into his front wheel, and sent him airborne.  He quickly hopped back on his bike as most of the field sprinted past.  Once he got his dome readjusted and started remembering where he was, he made a quick readjustment to his goals.  He says he "asked how much hurt is worth top-20? Top-10?"  It turns out that top-10 was worth plenty of hurt because that's what did for the next few laps as he "regained lots of ground on the course's many fast straightaways."  

Teammates, of course, played an integral role as Mike "Mr. November Bicycles" May stood by to help out by calling out Rades' placing on several laps and giving him the badly needed feedback on his relative position.  Rades notes that "once the numbers started dropping, I got amped up and decided to attack at every opportunity."  About two laps from the finish, Rades caught the main chase group "but started botching corners as fatigue set in."  As he said, "at this point, I had little to gain and everything to lose, so  I rode the last half-lap conservatively and cruised safely to 10th place."  Final results prove that fatigue really had set in as Rades ended up 10% faster than he thought, 9th place overall.

Congratulations to Paul Rades who added another top-10 finish to an already impressive season (even if his brain is still a bit foggy on the details of math and counting and stuff...)