This is not as off-topic as you may think. Grant is deeply interested in how my team is doing.
As many of you know, I'm an assistant coach, ride leader and team mechanic for El Cerrito High School Mountain Bike Racing. Many of you have donated to our team one way or another. We race in Norcal, Southern Division. You may remember that our league has been dominated for years by Salinas High School. They've won every D1 team competition at every league race for 6+ years. Last season, ECHS has something go wrong in every race and in every race we came in 2nd place to Salinas. We knew we could beat them, and in California State Championships we had a perfect day and destroyed Salinas, placing 2nd in the State of California behind Sir Francis Drake High School in Marin County. For 2019 we had everyone back and we expect to take League this year. We are certain we can beat Salinas; our only fear is that Berkeley might rise up as well. We've got 25 racers to Salinas ~35, and Berkeley's ~90 racers. Yesterday was the first League Race and we did it. We took the D1 team competition by a fair margin over Berkeley, with Salinas placing third. The day goes down as one of my proudest cycling accomplishments, even though I didn't ride. Interestingly, the team was pretty subdued about it. Everyone could have done better and everyone is pretty focused to keep improving. We didn't actually win any of the individual races, so every rider has room to move up. Other Riv content: our Gaucho mascot logo is wearing a green bandanna, so I cleaned out Rivendell of their green bandannas and handed them out to the racers to wear on the podium. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
