December 13, 2007 - Driscoll Wins NE Series

Driscoll Wins Final Two Races of New England Championship Cyclocross Series and the Overall U23 Title, December 8-9

Jamey Driscoll ended his New England cyclocross campaign with 2 wins in the U23 category at the W.E. Stedman GP of Cross and the NBX Grand Prix of Cross, both races were in Rhode Island over the weekend of December 8-9. These two wins gave Driscoll seven straight U23 wins in the series, and he obviously took the overall title!

He gained enough points to finish 7th among the elite men with a 5th place finish in the last race. You can see a writeup of the final race and overall results here.

Wish Jamey good luck at the National Championships this weekend where he is the defending collegiate national champion and 4th place finisher in last year’s U23 race.

Jamey Driscoll Readies for 2008 worlds in Italy

I was able to finalize my trip to Belgium for the Christmas Camp with Geoff Proctor during one of the many layovers returning home to Vermont. Bike racing is hard, and certainly not cheap when you are travelling all over the world with 2 bikes ($80 each, one way)! I feel lucky to have good friends and a good team to help support my racing. Now I begin my specific preparation for worlds.

First, I’ll be doing some Indoor testing and riding at incline-training. My team I have worked with Jay Gump, Ph.D. for the past 2 winters. Jay’s approach with Fiordifrutta is to place riders in unfamiliar situations and teach them to excel by using a combination of physical strength, tactics and teamwork. “Athletes can improve power output without improving results. We emphasize that race execution is trainable and necessary to win at the national level,” says Jay in his friendly southern draw. Jay and I will specifically be working on getting through the Christmas Camp and ultimately worlds in Italy Jan 26th 2008. My goal will be to hold and hopefully improve my form for nationals and Worlds.

Next, I’ll be attending the eurocross Christmas camp again this year. I was there last year and the experience was invaluable as preparation and as a life experience. I wrote about last years’ trip here. I hope to stay healthy and build on my recent racing form.