jrennie

Damn! just checked the pre-reg list for cherry pie
3's 100
4's 100
35+ 100
45+ 100
5's 50(max)
p12 75

Its going to be packed. Any other BF'ers going?

zvalmart

Yep. 45+ and then theoretically 35+ as well. Lots of Morgan Stanley/Spine riders.

jrennie

Yup, lots of Morgan-spiney. I was suprised to see a full field in the 45+ since they only had 51 last year.

kudude

i was just looking around for races since I won't be doing any collegiate til march --- and the 5's are full. I can get on the waitlist, but I have a feeling it won't do me any good.

Pizza Man

Josh, see you there!

I'll be one of the Morgan Spineley's in the 35+ and the P/1/2 for kicks!

I see that Lucas Euser is entered. I'm 0-2 against him in hill climbs, but maybe I can get him in a crit.

caloso

I'll be there, doing the Cat 4. I thought about the 35+ but that looks brutal....

Red Rider

I'll be there, Women's CAT IV, 35 or 45+, representing the new Team Precision (#s 604 & 605):
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I'm so glad for decent weather!

drakemtb

ill be there, juniors 17-18 (cat V waiting list). first race!

HolyInstantRice

Whoo! I'll be there, Juniors 17-18 as well. Look for the Asian kid in the white/blue kit riding the red S-Works with tragically mismatching-with-the-kit orange shoes.

HolyInstantRice

So how'd you guys all do today?

I was ninth in the 17-18 race, out of thirty-or-so other kids. Pleasant surprise, considering a lot of 'em are Cat. 2s and 3s.

Red Rider

Congrats for you!

I had so much trouble clipping in at the start that the pack got away from me and I never caught up again. Eventually I passed 4 other women who were shelled, and that's about my finish. I just couldn't find my inner Pcad.

Notes to self: Practice cornering at high speeds, learn to get closer to the wheel I'm sucking, and HTFU.

Sigh.

GuitarWizard

#605's seat looks a weeeeee bit low

Red Rider

Where did you see pictures?

bayareawheeler

9th in the E4

fun race, moved around the pack easy enough after becoming familiar with the corners.

6 to go i ended up in front and pulled for a lap. Recovered near the back untill 2 to go and started moving up again. last lap had crappy positioning (20) that forced me to sprint early into wind on the left, first to the base of the hill but not enough matches to drill it as needed.

baw

caloso

I was also in the E4. Could have been 10th, could have been 20th, it was pretty bunched up at the finish. (I had brunch reservations with Mrs. Caloso: part of the spousal maintenance program is to find races in good wine and food locations....) So I never saw my placing and it isn't up on ncnca.org yet.

I'm a little disappointed in myself. I had better legs than I thought I would but I raced very passively. That's it.

jrennie

Missed it due to the Flu.

How big was the gap to Nate(Zteam) in the E4 race caloso/baw?

caloso

Far.



(Nearly half a lap according to my wife.)

HillMut

Anyone stay to watch the p/1/2 race? Looks like some big names where there after looking at the pictures.

Pizza Man

I stayed, and watched most of the race from somewhere between 110th and 115th place (they expanded the field to around 115 riders or so). I rode the first couple laps in the back near Freddie Rodriguez, then he took off. I think he won a couple Primes, but at some point early on a group of 8 got off the front and build a pretty good lead.

I was mostly just sitting in, but I took a 1 lap flyer between the breakaway and the peloton (that hurt!), then sat in for a while to recover. I went back to the front of the main pack with 4 laps to go, just as Freddie and a couple other guys were trying to either break away or chase down the lead 8. I was going as hard as I could, just to stay in contact, but they sat up after half a lap and we were swallowed by the pack. The lead 8 were never caught (at least as far as I could tell). I just sat up the last half lap and watched the finish with Mr. Peabody & Sherman in the Way Back Machine.

jrennie

That's still going off the front and sitting in on guys who punch the clock and start their day at the office when the offcial blows the whistle. Very envious PM, good job.

HillMut

It looked like a morgan stanley rider won that race... or was that the masters?

Pizza Man

That was the 35+ race. That's a sore subject. Our sprinter miscounted the laps and won the penultimate lap, hand's up and all. D'oh!

He was able to get back in near the front and still finish 3rd in the real sprint.