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Saturday, September 26, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Henleyville Race Report-Nick
Race: Henleyville RR
Category: P12
Place: 8th (Won the bunch kick)
Who: Me, all by my lonesome.
Henleyville is really, really far north. Friday: 6.5 hours up 101 to the Bay Area (the 101 was CLOSED; diverted traffic and everything b/c of an accident. Fun) Saturday: another 2.5 up 5. Up at 4am to make a 8am start. Yuck.
Course is a pretty damn flat 18 mile circuit raced four times. The break of the day rolled ~a kilometer into the race. I missed it. I must have been picking my nose. Who attacks a mile into a 72 mile race? That's just rude.
Being a late season race, with many people's form--and, more importantly, motivation--on the wane, I looked around to find about 3-4 guys who were willing to chase... the six guys off the front. Not good numbers when there were some motors up the road. The next three laps were a fine balancing act of trying to maximize the speed of the pack while hurting myself the least. It was more work than I wanted to do, but sometimes you ain't got any other options.
With a half lap to go we finally reeled in the break, thus initiating the most chaotic, stop-and-go, illogical finale to a race I have ever witnessed. We slowed to 14 mph. Flurry of attacks, covers, counters which are neutralized and pulls which leave people dangling off the front. I had been carefully studying the opposition but the relative strength of riders seemed to have no bearing on how the group responded to their attacks. Tricky, tricky, tricky...
...Especially when Ihaven't finished a road race since February (overuse injury, since resolved, thankfully) and at this point mylegs aren't exactly eager to cover everything that moves. I decided to key off of the largest, most active team in the race, Webcor Builders. They had 4-5 guys in the group, and i figured it was unlikely we'd see something roll without them. I was wrong. There went 7 guys. No response. And there goes the race.
Rolling into the line, there was a hesitation at ~250 meters, and I came from behind with enough momentum to surprise the field for 8th. Despite some tactical errors, it was a great return to road racing after a season in crit-slut purgatory and hopefully the beginning of a long period of growth.
-Nick
Category: P12
Place: 8th (Won the bunch kick)
Who: Me, all by my lonesome.
Henleyville is really, really far north. Friday: 6.5 hours up 101 to the Bay Area (the 101 was CLOSED; diverted traffic and everything b/c of an accident. Fun) Saturday: another 2.5 up 5. Up at 4am to make a 8am start. Yuck.
Course is a pretty damn flat 18 mile circuit raced four times. The break of the day rolled ~a kilometer into the race. I missed it. I must have been picking my nose. Who attacks a mile into a 72 mile race? That's just rude.
Being a late season race, with many people's form--and, more importantly, motivation--on the wane, I looked around to find about 3-4 guys who were willing to chase... the six guys off the front. Not good numbers when there were some motors up the road. The next three laps were a fine balancing act of trying to maximize the speed of the pack while hurting myself the least. It was more work than I wanted to do, but sometimes you ain't got any other options.
With a half lap to go we finally reeled in the break, thus initiating the most chaotic, stop-and-go, illogical finale to a race I have ever witnessed. We slowed to 14 mph. Flurry of attacks, covers, counters which are neutralized and pulls which leave people dangling off the front. I had been carefully studying the opposition but the relative strength of riders seemed to have no bearing on how the group responded to their attacks. Tricky, tricky, tricky...
...Especially when Ihaven't finished a road race since February (overuse injury, since resolved, thankfully) and at this point mylegs aren't exactly eager to cover everything that moves. I decided to key off of the largest, most active team in the race, Webcor Builders. They had 4-5 guys in the group, and i figured it was unlikely we'd see something roll without them. I was wrong. There went 7 guys. No response. And there goes the race.
Rolling into the line, there was a hesitation at ~250 meters, and I came from behind with enough momentum to surprise the field for 8th. Despite some tactical errors, it was a great return to road racing after a season in crit-slut purgatory and hopefully the beginning of a long period of growth.
-Nick
Monday, September 21, 2009
Julie Guthrie takes 1st in Cyclocross
Congratulations to Julie Guthrie. She got 1st today in the first Cross race of the season. All her track training is paying off.
Kevin Hinton-My 1st CX race
After teaching a spin class this morning I loaded up the kids and headed to Ken Malloy park for my 1st cross race.I had my new white Parkpre CX bike and my new white VRC/NOW kit
and I was looking to get dirty.
My plan was to race the cat 4 but I was to late so Bruce said I should go with him in the 35+.
What did I know,so I said yes.The cat 4 was 35 min long but lucky me signed up for the 60 min race.I had a great time.My kids tossed water on me as I passed and screamed go daddy.
I cant wait for the next one.
Bruce 1st place ......Me not last place.....woo hoo
and I was looking to get dirty.
My plan was to race the cat 4 but I was to late so Bruce said I should go with him in the 35+.
What did I know,so I said yes.The cat 4 was 35 min long but lucky me signed up for the 60 min race.I had a great time.My kids tossed water on me as I passed and screamed go daddy.
I cant wait for the next one.
Bruce 1st place ......Me not last place.....woo hoo
Cory takes Unification National Championship Race
Race: Kenda Cup Unification XC National Championship
Where: Bonelli Park
Place: 1st : Cat 1 (19-24 age group)
Rider: Cory
Well I decided to head out and get some intesity in today, so I set out to hit up the Kenda Cup Unification XC Championships at Bonelli Park. This was my first MTN Bike race in over a year, and I was really looking to just have some fun, but fun turned into serious once the flag was dropped. The pro's took off 2 minutes infront of our group, the Cat 1's. I was in the 19-24 years old group, but all the age groups for Cat 1 took off together. So the race started and I was off, after the first turn it went straight into the climb, and from the bottom the group went hard, but I felt it was easy, and decided to go my own pace, needless to say I looked back and was all alone by the first 3 or so minutes up the climb, and from then on I rode my own race. The race was a really fun course, with short steep punchy climbs, rollers and fast single track. The heat was horrible, but I hydrated well, and had good support, so that was not an issue for myself. Well by the end of the race, I had caught majority of the pro field, and put 10 minutes into second place, not bad for a kid who rides the road. Overall I had won the Cat 1's 19-24 and had the 3rd fastest time of the day, and was pulling pro lap times. This was a very fun time, and highly recommend for mixing up the two wheeled fun, in the off season.
My Best
Cory Greenberg
U25 Elite Team
Where: Bonelli Park
Place: 1st : Cat 1 (19-24 age group)
Rider: Cory
Well I decided to head out and get some intesity in today, so I set out to hit up the Kenda Cup Unification XC Championships at Bonelli Park. This was my first MTN Bike race in over a year, and I was really looking to just have some fun, but fun turned into serious once the flag was dropped. The pro's took off 2 minutes infront of our group, the Cat 1's. I was in the 19-24 years old group, but all the age groups for Cat 1 took off together. So the race started and I was off, after the first turn it went straight into the climb, and from the bottom the group went hard, but I felt it was easy, and decided to go my own pace, needless to say I looked back and was all alone by the first 3 or so minutes up the climb, and from then on I rode my own race. The race was a really fun course, with short steep punchy climbs, rollers and fast single track. The heat was horrible, but I hydrated well, and had good support, so that was not an issue for myself. Well by the end of the race, I had caught majority of the pro field, and put 10 minutes into second place, not bad for a kid who rides the road. Overall I had won the Cat 1's 19-24 and had the 3rd fastest time of the day, and was pulling pro lap times. This was a very fun time, and highly recommend for mixing up the two wheeled fun, in the off season.
My Best
Cory Greenberg
U25 Elite Team
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Malibu "Classic" Race Report
Race: Nautica Malibu Classic Triathlon
What's Classic? 1/2 mile swim, 18 mile bike, 4 mile run
Category: 40-44
Place: 4th in age group, 15th/1,900 overall (give or take, standings not final)
Okay, so I did get a few chuckles when I showed up on the Saturday group ride in full Tri regalia. If you think that's funny, you should see me swim.
Goal was to survive the swim, rule the bike and manage the run. That's pretty much how it worked out, just over 16 minutes in the water, 43:34 on the bike and 26:45 for the run. Overall time was 1:30:02.
If you're wondering how much a difference a TT bike makes, last year I was on a road bike with 404s, with avg watts of 305, time 45:46. Power this year was 300 watts...
Have I found my calling?
What's Classic? 1/2 mile swim, 18 mile bike, 4 mile run
Category: 40-44
Place: 4th in age group, 15th/1,900 overall (give or take, standings not final)
Okay, so I did get a few chuckles when I showed up on the Saturday group ride in full Tri regalia. If you think that's funny, you should see me swim.
Goal was to survive the swim, rule the bike and manage the run. That's pretty much how it worked out, just over 16 minutes in the water, 43:34 on the bike and 26:45 for the run. Overall time was 1:30:02.
If you're wondering how much a difference a TT bike makes, last year I was on a road bike with 404s, with avg watts of 305, time 45:46. Power this year was 300 watts...
Have I found my calling?
Saturday, September 12, 2009
U25 Rider Danny "D-train" Katz comes back with a bang
Some may recall the dent Danny left in the barrier at the Ventura SR Cat 3 Criterium as well as the hardware that went into Dan's clavicle. Well, D-train healed up and snagged a win at the Clovis Harlan Ranch Cat 3 Criterium. Check out some random guy's video of Dan bagging the sprint: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVZOU4ESysY.
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