TWO STAGES AROUND OAXACA

BICYCLE RACING IS A THINKING MAN´S SPORT. 

BOYS DID GREAT!

''Tactics is what makes racing fun. If it was cut-and-dry and all about who was fittest, then it would simply be a matter of having the best genes and training well. Bike racing, however, is more interesting because it's not so basic... Cycling is also very much about utilizing good technique and having a strong tactical sense--having ''race smarts,'' as they say.      

Thomas Prehn

Report

Under 23 and Elite
Yosua Cervantes y Armando García

First day 85km: average above 40k with 55km/h constant attacks and peloton ride

Second Day 140km 12 loops around the Cerro del Fortin: same average with 55km/h into the cobbles and  attack in almost each hill. 

July 30

Yosua was with the first pack until less than one km lost before the arrival (just in the last hill near the McDonald for the one who knows Oaxaca). 84km with all the cyclists. Proud of you!

Armando with the pack the way to Xaaga before loosing touch in the last hill.

July 31

Yosua made 10 loops around 100km with the peloton and then rode the last 2 by himself. What a brillant effort from Yosua.

Armando made it 4 loops with the peloton and rode 10 loops in total. Good progress since last year.

Junior C
Eduardo Moreno y Eduardo Ramírez (both in red in the picture)

First day Xaaga to Oaxaca around 40k. 

Snd Day 6 loops to the Cerro del Fortin.

July 30

Eduardo was in a break away with three other cyclists. Made it fourth first stage, same time.

Lection of the day: Keep off the radar if you want to win the sprint.

Eduardo, our invited team member from Morelia finished with the pack. Good job.

July 31

Both Eduardo finished with the pack and Eduardo Moreno made it 5th in his category in the general classification. Won proudly his first 1000 pesos. Very impressive effort of Eduardo R.

And thanks to the team support: Pedro, Frida and Sergio!

Cycling has became a very important part of triathlon. Things are always on a state of change. The sport is changing. It has often been said that the reason more people don't succeed in life is because they don't plan for their success. In bicycling racing and triathlon, the same holds true.

Two stages around Oaxaca was a practice of planning, thinking, acting, and reflexion afterwards. STRATEGY AND TACTICS.

As Timothy Carlson wrote after London WC: ''Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee have proven to be a formidable force in ITU racing not only because of their physical gifts but because they share a fine tuned grasp of draft legal strategy. ....So it was somewhat of a shock to the two of them when Alistair seized on a fast-opening break at the London round of the World Championship Series Sunday and Jonathan was left behind in a slowly receding chase pack. While both were a little shook up to be separated, they made the very best of circumstances and the decisions they made were as subtle and nuanced as chess masters operating in the fast-paced world of ITU racing.

Think! Plan! Act!