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Cosmo Catalano

Whoops! Eh, Abrahmson will never notice... (That's me in the middle, flanked L and R by Amy Wallace and Todd Yezefski, fellow '04s).

• DOB: 03/07/1982
• Year: '04
• Racing Class: Category 3
• Racing Since: 2003
• Results:

Let's see...how did I get started on this bike stuff again? Spring of '03, raced Cs, then Bs (Spring '04), usually scored points, with a podium or two in there.

Designed (sloppily, I might add) the webpage previous to this wiki. Thank god that's over with. (If you're curious, you can find the original previous design here, and if you want some really old stuff, check this and this out. I guess the oldest team stuff I know of can be found here (second paragraph).)

You can also attribute the following things (at least partially) to me: Beer Nationals/Beer Crit, the Snow Crit, streaking Berry/Baker/Novak on a bike (I had to go cyclocross on the stairs, but they are ridable if you're up to it...) , the Hanover Alleycat, graffitiing the Ivy Cup, intra-Ivy smack talk via Photoshop, funny rider bios, that picture of Mickey on the trike, racing with a beer can in your bottle cage, The Tour Game (kinda defunct now - my bad), any cautionary tales you might hear about microbes and chamois pads, any party you attend that has a resume (or a sauna), the race organizers' Ten Commandments, Dopers Win, the curse of Tom Boonen, and the Ledyard Canoe Club's Big Lebowski Challenge.

Since graduating, I've been fat (182 lbs), skinny (155 lbs), visited Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Alaska, London, Madrid and Barcelona, turned wrenches at two bike shops, tried saving the world at a non-profit, scraped by as a freelance writer, started a webpage, catered, and now I have a day job. High points include bum-rushing the stands mere meters from the line to see Tom Boonen win the '05 World Title, and accusing Velonews' Andrew Hood of plagiarism.