Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Junior Point Series
On Sunday the Junior points series ended. It was made up of 8 races. Charlie and I won in our Categories. Alexander had a high chance of winning until I won at the Memorial Day Crit. On the final race up Mt. Diablo I finished 3rd and beat Alexander to win.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Napa Crit Ms 35+ Points Race
“I can’t admit to ever doing a points race crit..”
The format was 1 point for the winner of each lap, every third lap 3-2-1- points for the respective placing, and 20 points for lapping the field.
The plan was to win by getting into a break-away. Between Billy, Dean, Dylan, Scott, Wyatt, and me the odds favored Team Specialized Masters.
Straight away Dean went to the front and started competing with Andrew Barlow, of Nor Cal Velo, for points. During their battle Andrew went away solo. With Joel Robertson, we joined Andrew and formed the first break-away. Now, it was my turn to start amassing points. Joel crashed in the crazy “P” corner, and our break fizzled. After that, the real break finally surfaced: Billy and Brian Bosch. Two of the best all around masters racers. It was great sitting back in the field watching these two vie for points. They eventually lapped the field. Just prior to the lapping, Dylan broke away with Tim Granshaw and another great battle for points unfolded. At this point, Billy had locked up the win with points, and the race was for third place. When all was said and done: 1st – Billy Innes, 2nd – Brian Bosch, 3rd – Dylan Casey, 4th – Tim Granshaw, 5th – unknown winemaker who didn’t want his wine prize , 6th – Andrew Barlow, 7th – Me, and 8th – Dean LaBerge
Weather note: my SRM read 109F at the start line.
Just before our points crit, we watch James LaBerge, Team Specialized Junior , battle it out in the senior 3s crit for a 7th place finish. That boy can sprint... Great effort James!
The format was 1 point for the winner of each lap, every third lap 3-2-1- points for the respective placing, and 20 points for lapping the field.
The plan was to win by getting into a break-away. Between Billy, Dean, Dylan, Scott, Wyatt, and me the odds favored Team Specialized Masters.
Straight away Dean went to the front and started competing with Andrew Barlow, of Nor Cal Velo, for points. During their battle Andrew went away solo. With Joel Robertson, we joined Andrew and formed the first break-away. Now, it was my turn to start amassing points. Joel crashed in the crazy “P” corner, and our break fizzled. After that, the real break finally surfaced: Billy and Brian Bosch. Two of the best all around masters racers. It was great sitting back in the field watching these two vie for points. They eventually lapped the field. Just prior to the lapping, Dylan broke away with Tim Granshaw and another great battle for points unfolded. At this point, Billy had locked up the win with points, and the race was for third place. When all was said and done: 1st – Billy Innes, 2nd – Brian Bosch, 3rd – Dylan Casey, 4th – Tim Granshaw, 5th – unknown winemaker who didn’t want his wine prize , 6th – Andrew Barlow, 7th – Me, and 8th – Dean LaBerge
Weather note: my SRM read 109F at the start line.
Just before our points crit, we watch James LaBerge, Team Specialized Junior , battle it out in the senior 3s crit for a 7th place finish. That boy can sprint... Great effort James!
Friday, June 20, 2008
Putah Creek Smack Down
Craig and I went to the Davis Time Trial, aka Putah Creek Smack Down, aka PCSD on Wednesday. Due to traffic concerns the course has been moved from the course they have been using for over 20 years on, wait for it.... Putah Creek Road. They moved it to South Davis on a portion of the new Dunlap TT course. The new course is on Bulkey Road and goes straight south for 5 miles and then returns. Dead flat.
Anyway, since it was a new course I reminded Craig that whoever won would hold the course record. For two weeks at least... So, besides the traditional glory that goes with winning the PCSD we had the opportunity to go down in history as a course record holder. Truely a momentus afternoon.
I went off a few minutes before Craig. The outbound leg was into a head wind. I tried to walk that fine line between going to hard and blowing up and going too easy. Probably not terribly successfully as we'll soon see, but I was going pretty good. The return leg was glorious. I averaged over 30mph on the way back and finished in 21:42. The best time by far at that point. A few minutes later Craig finished and gave me the bad news. He rode 21:00. I swear to God that no matter how fast or slow I go out here I ALWAYS place 2nd. Anyway, that was a pretty ripping ride considering the wind, so hats off to Craig.
Afterwards we rode around for a bit to cool down. When I got back to my car and took off my helmet I felt a sharp pain in my forehead. Turns out a bee was inside my aero helmet. Don't ask how it got there I have no idea. When I took the helmet off he stung me. As you can see below, I'm alergic to bees... On the other hand it has taken away a few wrinkles. :-)
Anyway, since it was a new course I reminded Craig that whoever won would hold the course record. For two weeks at least... So, besides the traditional glory that goes with winning the PCSD we had the opportunity to go down in history as a course record holder. Truely a momentus afternoon.
I went off a few minutes before Craig. The outbound leg was into a head wind. I tried to walk that fine line between going to hard and blowing up and going too easy. Probably not terribly successfully as we'll soon see, but I was going pretty good. The return leg was glorious. I averaged over 30mph on the way back and finished in 21:42. The best time by far at that point. A few minutes later Craig finished and gave me the bad news. He rode 21:00. I swear to God that no matter how fast or slow I go out here I ALWAYS place 2nd. Anyway, that was a pretty ripping ride considering the wind, so hats off to Craig.
Afterwards we rode around for a bit to cool down. When I got back to my car and took off my helmet I felt a sharp pain in my forehead. Turns out a bee was inside my aero helmet. Don't ask how it got there I have no idea. When I took the helmet off he stung me. As you can see below, I'm alergic to bees... On the other hand it has taken away a few wrinkles. :-)
Monday, June 2, 2008
IC3
In the IC3 race last weekend I out sprinted my competition and won the 13-14s. Then I raced the pro 1,2,3 race. There were 140 racer. I stayed with them until the last lap. The average speed was 29.4 mph. Everyone has always told me to stay in the front. I stayed in the top 50. In the 5th lap I was following wheels and found myself in a short breakaway. I took a quick rotational and found the closest wheel to get a draft. There were 5 laps were I did very little work because I was positioned correctly then the next 5 laps I took alot of wind and used alot of energy. The race was very smooth. I had fun racing with them.
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