2014 Road Season Re-Cap

The OCTTO Cycling Team recently finished up its third season in 2014 racing a full competitive calendar including appearances at sponsor events.

In 2014, the distinctive OCTTO-Cervélo Team uniform raced or appeared in Ontario from Windsor to Ottawa as well Quebec province and 
New York, Michigan, South Carolina states.

Road Race, Ontario Provincial Championships.©David Anthony

  Road Race, Ontario Provincial Championships.©David Anthony

Post-race pow-wow, Kitchener Twilight Criterium.©David Anthony.

Preston Street Criterium.©Brian Trafford family. 

Some race highlights from the collective Team results of 2014:

3rd, Criterium, Ontario Provincial Cycling Championships

4th, Time Trial, Ontario Provincial Cycling Championships

5th, Road Race, Ontario Provincial Cycling Championship

Lake of Bays O-Cup #8 - From the Perspective of the Team/Road Rookie

Lake of Bays is the final road race of the 2014 O-Cup season. Taking place in the Deerhurst area of Ontario, there were plenty of ups and downs with very little flat section on the 94km loop. Still being placed in the Elite 3 category I had to only do one lap of this course instead of the rest of the team which was given a 170+km endeavor to attend to.

Being the last O-Cup of the season I was still trying to bank a good result to help add to a resume for the following year and at the very least, show proof that I am still improving. Leading up to this point, it has been a very difficult and at times frustrating test of how I have made the switch from cross-country mountain biking. Through the improvements in tactics and strength I have seen myself build steadily and was hoping to take that into Lake of Bays.

Mississippi Mills Grand Prix (in 4 parts)

A 4 race stage race in 4 reports by 4 teammates:

STAGE 1 by Osmond "Os" Bakker

Stage 1 of the Mississippi Mills Stage race takes place in the quaint town of Pakenham, ON. Historically this stage is done at night under rainy conditions. Thankfully the rain held off this year.

130 riders started the stage and it was going to be aggressive with so many teams wanting to gain time ahead of the team trial. Our game plan was to follow the moves and get into the winning break. The first circuit of 5 was aggressive with attack after attack occurring. I was active in most moves, but was starting to feel the affects of so many efforts. Finally on the start of lap 3 a move went that I was able to get across to. We were 9 riders with most teams represented. I had faith in the knowledge my teammates would be patrolling the front to keep any possible moves from getting back to us.