The Droppage at Lost River

By Martin • July 28th, 2010

So Linc Brookes went ahead and posted a whole bunch of pictures from the Lost River Classic, and what I had hoped was a moment left best forgotten on the roads of West Virginia has instead been immortalized for all to see. Yep, I got dropped. And badly. Grayson has a good excuse — this was his first race back after a pretty tough accident and more than a month off the bike. (And he’s even smiling in the picture — good sport.) Not me. I just plain got shelled.

At some point, we had a car in front of us with a guy hanging out of the sunroof with a video camera. He even stopped, got out, and filmed us going by. I’m not sure if the folks over at You Got Dropped have gone multimedia, or this was simply NCVC trying to document how badly the race destroyed virtually every field. Either way, soon enough I may have more to worry about than a simple picture — there will be video of me slowly slinking up the road, so far off the back that race officials likely thought I was winning the Cat 5 race. (Which started a good 10 minutes behind the 3/4 field I was in.)

I’d like to say I’m a sprinter, and that climbing’s not my thing. But let’s be honest — anyone who has seen me in crits knows that I’m no Mark Cavendish. I’m not even a Tyler Farrar. There’s not many excuses for what happened at Lost River. I just wish it had stayed at Lost River. Damn you, Linc Brookes!

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By nick on July 28th, 2010 at 2:41 pm

all the way to the left?
…also dropped.

i suppose i could’ve just ridden with you guys when i caught up, but i was gripped with the idea that the faster i rode, the quicker the suffering would end.