Congrats!
This season the men’s cat 3 team have really been a dominating team, recently 2 of the team riders have earned their category 2 upgrade. They did it in convincing fashion, winning races, attacking, soloing away, tting, crits, road races, they have put their mark in all of the CAT 3 disciplines.
Gaël Hagen, a young Duke University Grad Student was recruited by the squad this spring, he is new racer, but one that has learned fast and really put his mark on the Colorado racing scene. At the 40K Colorado State TT championships Gaël rode to a first place in the test of truth with a time of 51:37. He then followed up the next day with a win in the Niwot Criterium, coming from a 2 man breakaway to take his 2nd win in 2 days. What a weekend!
His team mate Colby Ricker also earned his cat 2 upgrade on the road, no doubt a force to reckoned with. Colby will always be found racing at the front of the race, looking for moves and not afraid to attack and lay it all on the line as was evidenced at the Hugo Road Race. A day when the winds were howling and the racing hard as nails. Colby attacked after the last feedzone some 30K from the finish, a gamble that paid off with a solo win! A bunch of other top 10′s and recently a sweet 2nd place at very technical Vics Criterium cat 3 race, with team mate Michael Burton coming in one step off the podium in 4th.
Look for the 2 new Cat 2′s mixing it up in the elite races and congratulate them on some fine performances this season, also look for the rest of the cat 3 team standing on the podium in the near future.
