Caribbean Training Camp? Ha!

Ian Harris, guest star J. Gabriel Lloyd and Liam Quigley brave 9DUB and beyond.


Off-season Wrecking Crew at the muffin stop. That's Liam travelling incognito. Thanks to JG Lloyd for the pic.

No fancy-ass Belize stage races or Mallorca training junkets for CRCA Jr-Dev. This weekend the bulk of the team put in over seven hours in the salty run-off of suburban NJ/NY and Central Park. We discovered that Pascual Caputi and Evan Cooper do not actually need to train in order to ride fast. And we discovered that Connor Sallee does. The final revelation of the weekend happened at the Piermont muffin shop after extensive use of the hills behind Nyack College: muffins are good.

Amaury's Big Adventure

CRCA JrDev graduate Amaury Arias (far right) chows down with his new team and some local ladies, at the Sakonnet/CRCA Florida training camp. photo ©: Basil Moutsopoulos


Amaury Arias (left) and Lewis Almonte at the start of the Nancy Morganstern Memorial, Sept. 10 2006 photo ©: Marco Quesada, nyvelocity.com


CRCA JrDev graduate Amaury Arias will ride for the U-25 team Sakonnet/CRCA in 2007. Amaury, who just received his category three license at the end of 2006, was admittedly a long shot for the squad, which competes nationwide at the elite level. Sakonnet director Basil Moutsopoulos recruited Amaury on the strength of his climbing ability and all around dedication. Anyone who has struggled to keep up with Amaury on an incline would concur with the words of his new director.
"He's a good kid, "Moutsopoulos told me after a week-long Florida training camp in early January, "he's talented, he had no problems sitting on the bike for the 6 plus hours each day... and he was cracking me up as well which was great."
We look forward to watching Amaury progress throughout the 2007 season. This coach particularly longs to see the day when Amaury will put a $@#*&& second waterbottle cage on his @#$@* bicycle!

Specialized in the house...

The CRCA JrDev. Category 3 squad will be sporting dry goods from Specialized this upcoming season. Many thanks to Troy and David at Specialized for an amazing assist with helmets, shoes and glasses. Pascual Caputi, what with his fetish for white shoes, is particularly ecstatic.