he's in the bandman!

After ramming my car into bambi @ 65mph the other night, I finally felt like getting back on the bike to see if I was going to be able to race this Sunday @ Infirmary Mound in C-bus. My lunchtime ride took me around the usual haunts, and as I circled RRCC I decided to find Eva Bandman park-the rumoured new home for cross in the village.

I almost missed the sign, but turned in and saw a mid-sized soccer field, I took a lap and noticed two men appraising the area. As I made my way back to the parking lot I saw 2 metro lou vehicles. Opportunity strikes!

I had thought one of them might be Jason Cissell, the parks guy with whom many of us have spoken. It turned out to be Marty Storch and an associate. He was very open and was more than happy to talk about the situation. More than anything he was surprised that there was so much opposition to what is happening. Here's the lowdown.

They don't love the dog-people either. Not the law-abiding folks. We all get along w them, but the folks that battle us battle them too.

RRCC is not an option for us. STG is our last hurrah, let's make it count.

The city is committed to creating a worldclass facility for us. I am down with that. Bruce Fina, who designs amazing courses for us ev ery year at USGP and Simon Burney are the go to guys. If we begged the city to do this for us these are the people we'd beg to have design it.

Right now, Bandman is a nasty rough diamond. If the city comes through, it could be amazing but it will be ours. No fighting dog-people. No crazy altercations. We will have a real home.

Check out the details of drmandrola's conversation w Bruce Fina on his blog or bikeclicks.com. Sounds like a little communication is going a long way.
Like all of you(except dug),
I'll miss RRCC a lot, but if we work with the city and hold them to their commitments....I'm not known for optimism, but maybe this works in our favor.

And yeah, I'm racing Sunday. Neck hurts, but so does cross. I'll live