Fear is strange. We buy insurance because we fear what might happen. Sales people use "fear of loss" as a closing tool. For most of us, this is the only fear we face. For others, fear is far more intrusive. There are people who will never see an exotic place for fear of flight. There are people who will never see a live ball game or concert for fear of crowds. And some will never love again for fear of a broken heart. Yet others will not reach the pinnacle of success for fear of being a failure.

People like to reminisce about their good races and the smart decisions they made, but few want to recall their truly foolish ones. I too would rather forget my mistakes, but if you don't think about them from time to time and try to learn from them you are doomed to repeat them.

My race of shame was the Redding Classic. It was a late season race and Terry and I were coming off a first and second place finish at the Cal-Cup the week before. This was Terry's hometown race and I told him I would do everything possible to help him, especially after all the help he had given me during the previous three weeks of racing for the Cal-Cup title.

Meetings: The next Corsa Club Meeting will be at Woodstocks Pizza on Friday April 3rd at 6PM.

Announcements:
Mark Woodson has setup a Bikely account for the Corsa Group to map their favorite rides to share with the local cycling community. His goal was to provide an opportunity to create, post and access local routes that have been vetted by our cycling community and are easily searchable. He hopes to see your favorite Chico road and mountain bike routes posted as well as good rides in the Paradise/Oroville/Orland areas.

Please don't show routes from your house or other private locations, but use common starting points like the Chico airport, One Mile Park, Rosedale School, the Fairgrounds and other known starting locations.

For those who wish to login and map a ride the username is: chicobikely and the password is: chicobike. The address is: here.

March Race Results:

• 2nd Jeff Galland (Merco Ct - Cat 3)
• 2nd Mike Jasinski (Merco Ct - Cat 4)
• 7th Alex Blease (Merco Ct - Cat 4)
• 9th Ryan Olson (Merco Ct - Cat 4)
• 6th Mike Jasinski (Merco RR - Cat 4)
• 2nd Mike Jasinski and Alex Blease (Berkely TTT - Cat 4)
• 3rd Mike Jasinski (Menlo Park Grand Prix - Cat 4)
• 13th Morgan Bonar (Menlo Park Grand Prix - Cat 3 women)
• 8th Jeff Galland (Madera TT - Cat 3)
• 12th Jeff Galland (Madera Ct - Cat 3)
• 9th Jeff Galland (Madera Overall - Cat 3)
• 2nd Dave Kyle (Madera Ct - Cat 4)
• 4th Dave Kyle (Madera TT - Cat 4)
• 3rd Dave Kyle (Madera RR - Cat 4)
• 4th Dave Kyle (Madera Overall - Cat 4)
• 8th Tim Creswell (Land Park Ct - Cat 1-2 Pro)
• 13th Mike Cordova (Land Park Ct - Cat 1-2 Pro)
• 1st David Kyle (Land Park Ct - Cat 4 Masters)
• 3rd Paul Sajben (Land Park Ct - Cat 4 Masters)
• 8th Ryan Olson (Land Park Ct - Cat 4 Masters)
• 3rd Mike Trowbridge (Land Park Ct - Masters 55)
• 8th Alex Blease (Land Park Ct - Cat 4)
• 9th David Kyle (Land Park Ct - Cat 4)
• 11th Ryan Olson (Land Park Ct - Cat 4)
• 14th Josh Bullock (Land Park Ct - Cat 4)
• 12th Mike Ricks (Land Park Ct - Cat 3)
• 4th Mike Trowbridge (Bariani RR- Masters 55)
• 4th David Albrecht (Bariani RR- Masters 30)
• 15th Mike Ricks (Bariani RR- Cat 3)
• 3rd Rob Bishop (Orosi RR- Masters 35 4/5)
• 7th Mike Painter (Orosi RR- Cat 5)
• 13th Rob Bishop (Hanford Ct - Cat 4/5)
• 8th Rob Bishop (Hanford Ct - Masters 35 4/5)
• 8th Mike Crumm (TBF MTB Race #1 - Sport 50-59)
• 10th Jim Leonard (TBF MTB Race #1 - Single Speed 39 and under)
• 14th Tom Embree (TBF MTB Race #1 - Single Speed 39 and under)
• 5th Mike Crumm (TBF MTB Race #2 - Sport 50-59)
• 11th Jim Leonard (TBF MTB Race #2 - Single Speed 39 and under)
• 10th Tom Embree (TBF MTB Race #2 - Single Speed 39 and under)
• 6th Mike Crumm (TBF MTB Race #3 - Sport 50-59)
• 7th Jim Leonard (TBF MTB Race #3 - Single Speed 39 and under)
• 6th Tom Embree (TBF MTB Race #3 - Single Speed 39 and under)
• 1st Pat Beckley (TBF MTB Race #3 - Sport 40-49)
• 7th Weston Crumm (TBF MTB Race #3 - Sport 19 and under)
• 5th Mike Crumm (TBF MTB Series Overall - Sport 50-59)
• 6th Jim Leonard (TBF MTB Series Overall - Single Speed 39 and under)
• 7th Tom Embree (TBF MTB Series Overall - Single Speed 39 and under)
• 5th Josh Bullock (Warnerville RR - Cat 4)
• 3rd Mike Cordova (Warnerville RR - Cat 1-2 Pro)
• 7th Mike Jasinski (Warnerville RR - Cat 3)

Classified: Colby Elliot is selling a pair of bontrager carbon clichers for $1600. if you would like to see them they are at North Rim.

April R.A.C.E. Calendar:
Chico Cyclist

• 04/01 - Fast 50
• 04/02 - River Road 10-Mile Time Trial
• 04/04 - Messilla Valley Circuit Race
• 04/05 - Coutelenc Time Trial (6th Event in the Butte Hill Climb Time Trial Series)
• 04/07 - Tuesday Night Airport Criterium (Stage 1 of the April Rodneyum!)
• 04/08 - Fast 50 (Stage 2 of the April Rodneyum!)
• 04/09 - Aguas Frias 10-Mile Time Trial (Final Stage of the April Rodneyum!)
• 04/11 - Grainland Road Race (Stay tuned for details - think Paris-Roubaix)
• 04/12 - Field of Dreams Time Trial (a new flat/rolling course)
• 04/14 - Tuesday Night Airport Criterium
• 04/15 - Fast 50
• 04/16 - River Road 10-Mile Time Trial
• 04/18 - Vilas Road Time Trial (7th Event in the Butte Hill Climb Time Trial Series)
• 04/19 - Airport LONG-course Criterium(using the 1- Mile course for this daytime Criterium)
• 04/21- Tuesday Night Airport Criterium
• 04/22 - Fast 50
• 04/23 - Aguas Frias 25-MILE Time Trial (RACE #1 in the 2009 Chico 25-Mile Time Trial Series)
• 04/26 - Wildflower Century
• 04/28 - Tuesday Night Airport Criterium
• 04/29 - Fast 50
• 04/30 - Meridian Road 10-Mile Time Trial (a new course!)

April Road Racing Calendar:
NCNCA Road Calendar

• 04/04 Altamont TTT
• 04/04 Napa River Velo Gran Prix
• 04/05 Santa Cruz Classic Criterium XXXVI
• 04/11 Copperopolis Road Race
• 04/16-20 Sea Otter Classic
• 04/25 Wente Vineyards Road Race
• 04/26 Wente Vineyards Criterium

April Mountain Bike Racing Calendar
NORBA Calendar
TBF Challenge MTB Races
MTB Calendar - California

• 04/01 Prairie City Race Series (PCRS) #1
• 04/04 Big Sandy Race
• 04/04 CCCX MTB Race Series #5
• 04/04 Sand Hill Spring Gravity #4 (Dual Slalom)
• 04/05 Napa Valley Dirt Classic
• 04/08 Prairie City Race Series (PCRS) #2
• 04/11 CCCX Downhill Race Series #2
• 04/15 Prairie City Race Series (PCRS) #3
• 04/16-19 Sea Otter Classic
• 04/22 Prairie City Race Series (PCRS) #4
• 04/25 Lemurian Shasta Classic
• 04/25 Iron Angels
• 04/29 Prairie City Race Series (PCRS) #5

April Chico Velo Calendar Chico Velo

• 04/04 Wildflower Preview #1
• 04/05 Wildflower Preview #2
• 04/11 Wildflower Preview #3
• 04/12 Wildflower Preview #4
• 04/18 Wildflower Preview #5
• 04/19 Wildflower Preview #6
• 04/25 Wildflower Preview #7
• 04/26 Wildflower Century

Rising stars:
Mike Jasinski made a tear through the Cat 4's while putting the hurt on a lot of older riders and is now adding serious horsepower to Corsa's already excellent Cat 3 team. Congratulations Mike!

Merco Crit by Mike Ricks
Summary: Cat 3 and 35+1,2,3; 28 miles at 24mph and 32 miles at 27.8mph; about 100 racers in each race.
Goals: 1) Put Galland on the podium; 2) Take a prime; 3) No crashes!

Hi All, Coach Mike here...

As the informal local crits and big races get started, I decided to re-post the article 'It's Crit Season!' this month. Whether you read it last year or not, I hope you'll take the time to read it this year. Those that haven't read it will benefit, but those that have read it may get even more from it. Now that you may have doing some of the crits (or even just read the crit race reports posted by other team members), it's likely you'll get more new insights from it. Pay attention to the diagrams... especially the "Pick your line in a pack" one. I'm willing to bet that you have come across someone taking the wrong line in the middle of the pack. Hopefully someone else hasn't seen YOU doing just that!!

Reading Dave A.'s funny piece last month on roadside food got me thinking about all the memorable food and drink I've had on some past rides. Strange, but although I spent a career in four-star restaurants and ate and drank like a king, pretty much all of my favorite food and drink ride memories are about very simple things. I'm sure you have your own list; here's mine:

Part two of Janine's journal/emails from her ride across the United States. 

We're settling in for the long haul on Hwy 2. We'll be on it through Washington, Idaho (briefly!), Montana, and North Dakota. Today was an easy day. We needed some recovery! We started at around 9, and finished before 2:30 (well, actually, Dave finished quite a bit before me, as it was mostly all uphill or downhill... I'm a little bit faster than him on the downhill (only because my bike is heavier, of course!), but he is ALOT faster than me on the uphills... So we're going to try something a little different tomorrow (it's another climbing / descending day... Dave tells me we're in the Rockies now!) .. I'm going to leave a little earlier, Dave's going to sleep in, and we're going to see if we can arrive approximately together. Will let you know how that goes.