More organized? Have one rider reserve hotels and send race entries. In a road race, tell your teammates and clubmates in other categories if you’ll be bringing someone to feed. This is not just a selfless gesture. A significant other whose only responsibility is to feed one rider a couple times in one race gets bored and loses enthusiasm. If he or she gets to feed more riders more frequently, the job stays interesting.
What we now call active teamwork in races is still called collusion in some countries’ race rules. It’s considered cheating, because it gives riders an unfair advantage. But in the U.S.A, teamwork is legal and expected. Do it!
photo by Catherine Marsal
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I ride for the Starbucks Women's team in Seattle. As an amateur team, we manage to coordinate our team cooperation in several of the ways mentioned in your article. AND - we generally have more riders placing in the top ten because of it. It is kind of a crazy feeling you're "out to win" individually and riding as a team at the same time. Without being paid to be the "domestique", it takes a special mentality to make this arrangement work - and feel competitively satisfied.
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