Colavita Cycling of New England

Sorrento's Pizzeria will sponsor the 2011 Team.  Sorrento's uses only a wood fired brick oven to cook all their pizzas.  Sorrento's is not just pizza though.  Sorrento's serves a wide variety of dishes from pasta to steak tips using only the freshest ingredients.  Come down and taste the difference.

With four locations

Store Hours
Mon-Fri 9 a.m - 8:30/9 p.m.
Sat-Sun 11 a.m - 8:30/9 p.m.

Northern California-based Ritchey Design was founded by road racer, mountain bike pioneer and product innovator Tom Ritchey in 1974. The company is well-known for its technical merits through attention to detail during the product design phase, resulting in high-quality, reasonably priced road and mountain bike components. Under its Fit Logic philosophy, Ritchey Design offers a wide range of "cockpit" components (handlebars, stems and seatposts) that help riders custom fit their bikes for a more efficient and comfortable. Ritchey Design also offers a complete line of innovative products ranging from headsets to tires for professional racers and the serious weekend rider, as well as its line of "Break-Away" travel bicycles for traveling cyclists. For more information about Ritchey Design, please visit www.ritcheylogic.com.

Rudy Project will be sponsoring the 2011 team.

The team concluded its long 2010 racing season in Rhode Island this past weekend at the NBX Grand Prix of Cross.  NBX GP are the last two races in the VERGE Cyclocross series.  The course was not much different than in years past, which made for a fast and not too technical race.  The long open start allowed for good position jockeying leading into the first turn.  The open field section kept speeds fast with a few sharp S turns.  The single track to the beach was fast with tree roots thrown in to make it interesting.  The beach run was a killer and just zapped your legs every time (to give you some perspective it's like running with a 15 pound weights on each leg..yeah it's that good).  To add to the fun, there was a blustery cold wind that blew in off the ocean slapping you in the face as you entered the beach.  Just when you think you had enough, there was a small run up at the end of the beach.  The bright side was that there was a root beer hand up at this point.  Then it was back on the bike and into the trees for some more fast winding single track.  Sunday's race had similar course features except with not just one beach run but two (you got your money's worth in the pain department this day).  Oh yes and that same cold wind smack down. 

Day 1 Results:

Day 2 Results:

Ode to the Team Tent

By Seth Haskell

Alas, my good friend,

inanimate being of aluminum and poly,

At the end of the day we compress you to rest,

In your own black package, as we ourselves head to recover..



Let us not forget!

No never forget

How you once abated our heated brows

From a scorching mid-morn sun

How you kept cool our machines in your gracious shade....

How you created a space

Where teammate, where friend

Gathered and laughed,

Joking and smiled,

Gathering courage

To stare into the face

of such an oncoming challenge



and after...how we dragged our sun burnt bodies,

wrecked and wretched,

torn and tattered from the suffering of the day,

back to your solace, to find shelter

from the late afternoon rain

once again united

with our brethren of race,

exhausted we talk,

we celebrate and lament

we plan, and through it all,

we find in ourselves resolve

to charge again, once more

to the pave for battle,

from you

our fort, our home,

our Team Tent......

Jena Greaser recently joined the Colavita New England Racing Team.  She wasted no time taking the top spot on the podium.  Jena placed 1st at the Winding Trails Off Road Triathlon.  The off road triathlon is similar to the standard triathlon event.  The event starts with a ½ mile swim, 5 mile mountain bike and a 3.1 mile cross country run.  Jena  had an outstanding race even beating two time Olympic Mountain Biker Jimena Dolzadelli.

You can be sure to see more great results from Jena this season.

Great Job Jena!!!

Race Report Provided by Jena Greaser:

I participated in my first off-road triathlon of the summer on Tuesday. The Winding Trails Series is a ½ mile swim in a lake, 5 mile mountain bike loop, and a 3.1 mile cross country run loop. I finished as the FIRST female out of 50 starters and placed 17th overall out of 163 starters (men and women combined). I even beat a 2 time Olympian mountain. biker (Jimena Dolzadelli, ). She was a minute a head of me on the bike portion, so next Tuesday I will make sure to ride even harder! I started in the first wave with the men and few of us brave women. I inhaled at least a gallon of water on the swim portion and even had to stop to do the breast stroke to calm down a few times. I forgot how intense the swim part is with people kicking you in the face and pulling at your legs from behind you. I plan to get on the front row next week! Once out of the water we had to run on a hard packed, rough, stone filled dirt trail for a couple hundred yards to the transition area. This was not too much fun without shoes on...and the transition area was all sand. I made the mistake of not putting my socks on for the mountain bike or the run and paid the price in bloody blisters. Despite the side cramps from a gallon of pond water in my gut and the stinging pain from the blisters on the inside of my feet, I had a blast! The mountain bike loop is sweet single track zig-zagging back and forth, and I always love a run in the woods over pavement any day. I was impressed that I was even able to complete the race at the pace that I did considering this was my first triathlon since 2 summers ago. I blew out my acl, mcl, and meniscus in February 2009 and was barely even able to walk by the end of last summer, non the less run or ride my bikes. My swimming and biking are fine, but the running will need some more work. I am just being patient with the knee and I know that over the summer it will continue to improve and perform better for me. It is hard to not be able to run how I use to prior to the knee injury. Before I ever got into bikes I was an elite runner, acquiring many D1 scholarship offers to run in college. A repetitive IT-Band injury put me in the pool a lot and on the bike. I entered my first triathlon at the age of 18 and won for female overall. I was hooked. After getting a job at a bike shop, all I wanted to do was start racing bikes. Thanks to the sport of triathlons I am where I am today with bike racing. I look forward to competing in more of these off road series races this summer since the series is every Tuesday until August 17^th. Therefore it does not interfere with the regular USA cycling races on weekends.

This is the second year for the CT stage Race taking place in the hills of western Connecticut.  The two day three event challenging stage is known for it's climbs and it's killer 91 Mile final stage.  The weather this year was uncooperative, with the heavy threat of thunder storms each day.  Saturday the weather held out for most of the day.  The team relaxed in the team tent between stages and enjoyed a chicken BBQ for lunch.  Sunday was less pleasant with heavy rains.  Despite these challenging conditions the team raced on while many pulled the plug on the race all together.  Great Jobs Guys!!!  

We had a full team present at the race. 

Due to a major crash & field getting lost there are no results for the Pro 1-2 Race for stage 3