Valerie Brostrom and Josh Ryan, with their respective team mates, are competing in the Alpenrose Six-Day track event in Oregon. Six-Day racing is one of the oldest genres of cycle racing, still popular in Europe, but a rarity in the U.S. It is a grueling series of races that tests the strength and endurance of each two-person team. Val reports in on the first two days of competition:
"My partner and I, Dena Eaton from L.A., are currently in first place, up one lap on the field and ahead by 30 some points. In Madison racing, laps count more than points so as long as we can keep our lap (hopefully gain more) we'll be fine. We would actually be up 2 laps going into tonight if we hadn't botched an exchange. Because of that, we were actually down a lap last night and had to lap the field to finish the night even.
Josh and his partner, Jack Lindquist from LA, made it into the Men's A field thanks to Josh's awesome standing start in the qualifier. They're holding strong in 6th place and looking to move up to 5th. The top 3 teams are pretty much untouchable so the best they could do would be 4th.
Each night we do 2 mass start events and a Madison. I'm not too tired, although getting there, since our field isn't that tough. Josh on the other hand is really getting drained. Tough racing for the men."
There are videos here, you can see Josh and Jack in Bouledogue regalia.
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