Tour de Dane Femmes: Crystal Clear

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Jul 19

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Every other day, every other day
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever Monday comes, but whenever Monday comes
A-you can find me draftin' all of the time

The Mamas & The Papas and 22 Drafters were singing up Far View Road. What a view. What a night. What an amazing group of people.

Daisy, Shaq and Loose Screw comprised the mighty DEF team members. Not sure if Shaq is indicating "Two Strong" or "Peace". Why not both?

The B Team dominated the Draft. Skipper resurfaced after two weeks in Norway and Gopher dug his way out from underneath the exhaustion of moving and recent induction into Fatherhood. Captain Joe found his way back from Montana and Thing 1 found her way out of a grueling Internal Medicine rotation. It was wonderful to see so many faces.

Midas, Knievel, Z Wrecks, Pepe, Speedy, Duracell, Queenie, PitStop, Squeak, LuLu, Skipper, Gopher, Captain Joe, Thing 1 and Cujo

A trio of Femme Drafters made up the A Team.

Until they were joined by Slim, who dutifully pulled the trio a good long stretch.

Slim and Keez wore their matching Bad Kitty socks. Deep conversation and speculation about the significance of the couple's matching socks scared Slim away. He sped off to find some non-Femme companionship. His motor was purring as he caught Skipper on the home stretch.

CONGRATS to Squeak on her 70.3 finish in Door County. Dan-yelly credited her 6/54 age group finish on her "magic Drafter shorts". Her splits were so fast, despite her training being limited to chasing around 3 kids, TCB accused her of cheating. Coach Midas continues to have the golden touch. Congrats to Midas and all of the Madison MultiSport athletes on their Door County finish.

Cannibal's tutu must have been lucky, too, as he smoked the field at the road race in Platteville to claim 3rd place on the podium.

Speaking of races, the maillot jaune is soon to be decided, and upon the completion of this exciting Tour de France, another less publicized Tour commences. In an effort to bolster support for the Tour de France Femmes, and support women's cycling locally, the Draft will be hosting a cycling challenge. The Tour de Dane Femmes will be commiserate with the official Tour from July 23-30.

The yellow jersey will be awarded to the Femme Drafter who completes the greatest number of miles over those 8 days, AND completes all 3 stages of the tour (Crystal Clear Drafter ride, mountain and sprint stages). Polka dot and green jerseys will be worn by the winners of the mountain and sprint stages, respectively. Please contact BrickO for more details. Prizes (thanks to Nemo and Trek) will be available for all participants.