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its official...  granted we have to wait for delivery but deposit has been made and team orders placed.

There is an homage to Ophelia. It is a given esp considering it has been an integral part of the orange jumpsuit, and what's an NECX with out spotting the guy in the dirty orange jumpsuit with the Vanderkitten patches (from when i was pit/mechanic for Christine Vardaros before she went to Belgium full time).

Always fun having a RISD department head in the club who's not so bad with designing stuff...

Lots of questions always though right?

Why? Back to basics, Prov Velo Club has been something I've been involved in since I got here. I started riding with the Brown Cycling Club when i moved back and there was this cross over with Prov Velo and heck since I wasn't eligiable to be Collegiate anymore made sense to hook up with them. Been that way ever since.  That group of old men that ran around in CX started kind of when Boivin got Chabot on PVC, then Chabot talked Planet Bike into forming a Master's squad for NECX and we sort of solifided the team that year, moved on to CyclocrossRacing.Com for a few years then last year with JP's success launched ENGVT exclusive team.  You've been reading this - 2014 has been a big year of refocus, change, trying to more positive and be happier, one of the more difficult things was actually this desicion to fly the club colors for CX again. Relationships change and dynamics are different sometimes. Sometimes it is a punctuated event sometimes it is a gradual thing with a clarifying moment, sometimes it is just about orange juice. But CX is CX, it no care what colors you wear.

The PVC club is made up of the people i ride with all year round. there's a handful maybe racing CX this year and it just made sense to carry the leadership roll through the CX season as well rather than go split teams.  Kind of exciting that this is the first skinsuit from PVC since the Refunds Now days, Deano did an awesome job with the design I think. Pretty stoked about it.

It is a big change but not really. And is CX really a team sport? No. G-ride has the untapped guys now and that team has been awesome for him.

That and @NotoriusJunk won't be the thing everyone is looking for on monday photo day after CX races. Back to black for the junk region. #stealthmode

So yeah. I meant to write about the Smackdown with a twist earlier, haven't yet. Figured might as well get this up.

Cyclocross is coming and i'm NO WHERE NEAR READY. I'm way slower and more out of shape than last year. But meh who cares. I've got some time to get close and we'll see where I'm at. As good as last year? Probably not but that's okay, last year didn't end so well. Starting over. Moving forward and being positive.

Kind of funny, bad events seem to lead to good things.  Blue terminating JP's sponsorship before Nationals gave Jerry the opening to take on the roll of title sponsorship. That lead to solidifying the idea that he wanted his own team. Which was way more work than he bargained on and low return on investment but it also lead to a few big things, Worlds and Healthy Hubble tagging along, all that lead to the ENGVT Untapped team, which has been great. Even from a distance and no real conneciton, it is pretty obvious that it has been a very positive thing for my grumpy friend in VT.  Heck I've been on a spiral down a touch the last few years, and kind of jutst kept pushing through, feel like with a few key actions and some supportive people I managed to get through it, or at least feel like things are on the up not down... getting lighter not darker...   I'm sure any copy editor would find most of this post today a bit challenged. Written in a few settings, edited hap hazardly.

But I'm excited. I was excited last year but i was excited to race with the team and carry on like we had and then the team sort of felt like just me with a few exceptions...  so shedding that expectation, and the pressure, feels right. We'll see how that translates and bears out in the long run, but it feels right. And I do actually like feeling happy and excited.

best just publish and move on to the next topic

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