Gopher Cycling Blog

The U of M team with Andrew T, Eric S, Michael S, and Satoshi I rode a
respectable time of 5:19min for 4000m today.

Andrew crashed in turn two of the first attempt, when Michael had to
suddenly pull up the track to escape Satoshi's rear wheel, who was having
trouble with maladjusted cleats. But Andrew shook it off and went right back
for a second round, which led to the aforementioned result. The conditions
where cold and extremely windy, so that the only team that beat the 5-minute
mark was Penn State, which rode a strategy of switching off Lea and
Friedman, and letting the other two riders sit in the whole time. So while
the team had hoped for a better time, it must be said that conditions could
hardly have been worse.