Julie won the Dirty Rocks 10k Master’s Division to start off Team Lake Effect’s fine racing day.

Bill Marut won the Master’s Division of the Tennessee 1/2 Ironman triathlon.

Robert won the Cat. 4 at Race At the Lakes. (Rudy only got 2nd in the Master’s RATL).

Robert won the Sport under 19 at Vulture’s Knob later in the day.

Rudy won the Sport 50+ at the Knob.

And Steve Twining proved he can win at Vulture’s Knob just as well as Mohican–by a lot!! First Expert–wicked fast 3 laps!

That’s a pretty good day for Team Lake Effect.

And there’s more– Zach was 4th junior at RATL, Gwen 5th Woman, and fine riding by Tiffany, Jim, Chris, Nate L., Craig and Emilio.

And Jarod looked great at the Knob in the Expert race.

Julie won the overall Women’s division at the Strongsville Spring Classic 10 miler this morning. She was in the top 20 overall as well. A very consistent 7:30 pace held off all women and Charles Howe as well. Julie’s long winter recovery from surgery has yielded wonderful (and surprising!) results.

The RATL Master’s race was exciting. TLE’s Joe Palotto made a solo effort for several laps, then Chris R. and Rudy tried to go; no gap to speak of; then Jim Gilmore darted away, covered shortly by Spin’s Tom Humphrey. Despite some efforts by Stark Velo racers and Tom Freuh (Carbon) which nearly reeled in the breakaway–the two stayed away with Jim taking second. Joe had run the field at a steady pace quelling most efforts to chase the lead duo.

Excellent teamwork by TLE members on a very cold rainy morning. Congrats to Tom and Jim for a strong effort.

John finished with the field in a wet and cold 1/2/3 race.

Volunteers for tomorrow’s Covered Bridge race meet at 8:00 at registration for instructions.

Cleveland Metropark employees and CAMBA got together this past Saturday to continue work on the Royalview Trails located near Royalton Road and Rt. 71. One group benched a section while another built a raised section in a swampyarea. Julie and I were in the swamp rolling wheelbarrows of stone onto a carpetof black material (like [...]

Only two weeks to the deadline for team clothing orders. Please get any order in ASAP. I want to see if we getting to the minimums. Make checks to Team Lake Effect. Mail to: Rudy Sroka 5475 Akins Rd. N. Royalton 44133 Thanks Rudy

Hey everyone, I just started using Strava (http://strava.com) to upload my rides from my Garmin. Pretty cool setup, you can brag to the world about how many miles you’re putting in, or see how fast Paul Martin (aka god) flies up every climb in the area. If you’ve got a GPS or iPhone / Android, [...]

I just thought I let the team know Julie had a reconstruction on her elbowtoday. The doctor says it should be better than new in 8 weeks.Julie torn it open at Mohican two years ago and got 100 stitches to close it up; however tendons were not repaired and that led to a lotof pain [...]