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Animas High Ospreys Flock to Nathrop

Its the season opening event in Nathrop Colorado that has 6 Animas High School students and their families, heading upstate to mountain bike race. It is the inagrual race of the inagrural season, and Durango has a team. Coached by Devo coaches Sarah and Chad, the Animas High Ospreys have 9 boys and 2 girls signed up for the team/class. 4 of them being summer Devo athletes. Rumor has over 130 high school students from all corners of Colorado attending the race. Categories are Freshman, Sophmore, Junior Varsity and Varsity for both boys and girls. Points are awarded to each teams riders, with the team title being the most prestigious. 7220 Composite, Animas High School , Boulder High School , Rocky Mountain HS , Crested Butte MTB , Fort Collins Comp , Gunnison HS , Lyons Composite , Palmer High School , Salida-BV Composite , Cheyenne Mountain , Monarch MTB , Summit High School , Vail Valley Comp , Fairview High School , Ralston Valley HS , and Douglas County HS are all the registed teams as of today. Check out http://www.coloradomtb.org/ for more info on the league.

cycling class is in session at Animas High

DEVO’s in College

Just Ride coach Daniel Walker takes the DH in stride

The sweet FLC trailer is still kicking after all these years. It was originally donated to the team by Ed Zink in 1996 to get the newly formed team off to the races. Todd Wells loaded up his bike on that very trailer on the way to winning the Collegiate that very year.

U19er Howard Grotts is in college, and it didn’d take long for him to step on the podium. 4th in the xc and a 1st place in the short track. Way to go Hammer!

The collegiate A women on the start line. U14 Devo Coach Annie Cheeney on the far left. Past Devo riders Nora Richards and Kaila Hart are also tucked in there

Nate Byrom of NorCal high school racing is at FLC

Alumni Joe Schneider, Nate Byrom, U19er Howard Grotts, Alumni Grady James talk it out at the finish of the xc

Devo board member and FLC Team Manager, Dave Hagen prepares dinner for the young lads

camping as a team at the KOA in Gunnison

DEVO Summer Camp Bus Ride was Top Notch

Thanks DMR!

DEVO End of Season Party was a Blast

end of the season speech and pounding rain and windy wind

the rainbow made basketball look wonderful

photos by Devo Dad Jim Feilen

AliciaRose Pastore Finishes in 19th for Team USA

Sidetrip Stories:

The Olive Garden Story: Once upon a time there were four hungry cyclists wandering the isles of an Albany grocery store. Alicia, Teal, Elke, and Darian couldn’t be bothered to spend another 5 minutes deciding on ingredients to make a fourth dinner for the week, so they decided to go out that night instead. After exiting the store, they loaded $200 worth of groceries into their clown car ( which was already packed to the gills with suitcases, duffle bags, and bikes) and drove off in search of a place to eat dinner. The first establishment they stopped at had a 25 minute wait!!!! Being from the great town of Durango, the travelers were spoiled and not used to having to wait this long for a table. This was unacceptable, so they continued their search in hopes of finding a restaurant were they could be seated immediately. Unfortunately, they were in a city at 7:00pm, right in the middle of the dinner rush. The foursome did not realize this until they drove up to an Olive Garden and saw people standing around outside like a herd of cattle. They now understood that they were going to have to wait no matter where they went, so Elke went in and got one of those vibrating pager things and they joined the rest of the cattle waiting for their turn to eat. The promise of all-you-can-eat salad and bread sticks sounded well worth the wait. The group sat and chatted about the up-coming race until the vibrator/pager went off, and went inside to their table. Where it was FREEZING!! The group perused their menus with chattering teeth and growling stomachs. Dinner choices were quickly made and the waitress came to take their order. Yet she brought some distressing news; there were no more bread sticks. Not only could the travelers not eat all they wanted, but they couldn’t eat ANY! Darn you Olive Garden and your empty promises! Elke, in her never-ending attempt to get away with as much as possible, tried to coerce the waitress into giving us their best appetizer for free. But the waitress wasn’t having any of it and brought some strange dinner rolls instead. The cyclists ate their fill of salad and pasta, paid there tab and squeezed back into the smallest SUV known to man. They had survived eating pasta at an Americanized Italian chain that caters to the overweights masses during the busiest time of night. The rest of the weekend should be a piece of cake. -DarianH

Alicia-Elke Interview– Check out this fun interview that Alicia asked Coach Elke before they left for New York last week.

Cyclingnews.com– Check out the story from Alicia’s race

AOA Super September Bonus Short Track Results

September 1st 2010

Factory Trails

B Men; 1. Chris Blevins, 2. Taylor Borucki, 3. Levi Kurlander, 4. James Storm, 5. Fabio When, 6. Devin Feilen, 7. Josh McDowell, 8. Sven Brunso, 9. Rich Larson, 10. Clint Campbell, 11. Henry Larson, 12. Keenan Desplanques, dnf, Stephan Davoust

B Women; 1. Tilly Field

B Holeshot; Chris Blevins

Kids Race; Dylan, Keiran, Perrin, Quinn, Wyeth, Will, Wiley, Henry, Nicolas, Carter, Kai, Ozzy, Alex, Clayton, Marit, John, Colby, Maddie Jo, Mack, Clay, Ivan, Sawyer, Kayden, Ethan, Austin, Ian, Corbin, Clayton and Friends

A Women; 1. Krista Park, 2. Kaila Hart, 3. Annie Cheeney, 4. Sarah Strum, 5. Tilley Field

A Men; 1. Trevor Downing, 2. Matt Shriver, 3. Lucas Perez, 4. Greg Lewis, 5. Lars Ellefson, 6. Frank Mapel, 7. Nate Byrom, 8. Whitney Jones, 9. Grady James, 10. Luke Ramseth, 11. Bryan Morra, 12. Matt Seagrave, 13. Garret Alexander, dnf Sam Simmons

A Holeshot; Nate Byrom and Kaila Hart

past results- search “short track results”

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AOA/DEVO STXC #12 Photos

2nd Place for AliciaRose Pastore

Teal Stetson-Lee’s recap of her 47th place World Cup finish;
“It was an epic race, an epic day, and an epic course. I was unbelievably excited about the opportunity to line up with the fastest women in the world in my first world cup mountain bike race ever. The race began with a chaotic start of elbowing, grimacing, grunting and battling through the 200 yard road start area. On the back line I had to attack hard to stay alive. When we got to the first narrow tree section on the course the chaos was far from subsiding, the women’s field had bottle necked and I was forced to get off my bike and scamper through the rocks like a wounded pika. Soon, I moved far enough ahead that I was no longer contained by the struggling pack and managed to push my way into the 40s. The rest of the race was about maintaining my position and surviving the sweat and humidity that was attempting to drown me. I felt strong and felt like power and confidence was emanating with every pedal stroke. I continued to shred the techy, tacky, rooty, rocky descents without too many major catastrophes, occasionally getting stuck behind China, who as it happens, has absolutely no technical skills. I was considering my race a great success when I caught and passed a few of my major competitors from the mountain states cup series and was preparing myself for a strong finish on the fourth lap assuming I would get pulled before I could start the final lap because everyone who is more than 80% behind the leader gets pulled. Coming through the start finish area after a final push I realized they weren’t waving me off the course. That was when it dawned on me that I was the last lucky competitor to actually get to finish the whole race. As I rolled through the finish line headed into my last lap, I could hear the crowd chanting USA! USA! I was completely blown, and fried after thinking the fourth lap was my last time up the slimy hill. Luckily, Elke was there to save the day with a bottle full of coca-cola. I grabbed my feed, took a Clif shot of 100mg of caffeine, double expresso, washed it down with coca-cola and charged up the hill one last epic time!!! The last lap went smoothly, I held it together and then sprinted hard through the finish area almost catching Kelly Emmet who finished 1 second and three bike lengths in front of me as I rolled through taking 47th. I was the first finisher in the national USA kit and the last one to complete all five laps. It was a great introduction to the world cup racing scene, hopefully an experience to be repeated many more times!!!”
-Teal