substructure

You're pretty awesome, ze .... no matter how goofy you look.

ZeCanon

I think I might have been hocking a loogie

waterrockets 

Can't see the photo at work (filters), but great report. Sounds like you were in good control there and have some great fitness. Congrats to you and the team! Good luck later today.

jwible

Any updates?

neuronal

https://usacycling.org/results/index....&info_id=22968

Ston_ar

results posted from the crits
https://www.usacycling.org/results/in...ermit=2010-369

slim_77

wow, Josh Carter won the D1 crit. He rode for one of our local teams, an old teammate of BF'er Duke of Kent. He did very well in Superweek last year.

petalpower

Glad to see our college winning the D2 crit. Richard Geng is usually out on our group rides, and that kid is a monster.

Kris Flatlander

Teammate got 10th in the D2 Road Race and 15th in the D2 Criterium, pretty great work (and he had no teammates!). Also, he did the whole thing on a Specialized Allez with 105 and a triple, it's not about the bike haha.

ZeCanon

Shltty crit course. Couldn't get anyone to work with me off the front. Sat in for the last 15 minutes, moved up with a few to go, got caught behind some dude with a front blowout and came to a dead friggin stop with 2 laps to go. Went from 10th to 50th. Tried to get back up but the last 2 laps were FAST. Ended up mid 30's. Teammate 7th, the guy I was sitting 2 wheels behind before the tire explosion. Damn.

Two crap courses for me this weekend, uncool. 19 mile TTT today is going to suck. Everyone else on the squad either took last night off, or didn't do the RR. I've done both. Legs are going to be screaming from mile 1.

substructure

As a friend, Ze, I say, "Scrape off the bad and think of the good. Go out there and give it everything you've got because you just never know, man. You never know."

Hoping you lay it down hard.

slim_77

you mentioned before you will prob do some Superweek races this July. They specialize in "crap courses"...with a few true gems. Carter is fluent in crap midwestern crit courses.

Sorry about the bad luck. Give 'em hell today.

ChaZam

Ze: Friend from Philly sent me link to your teammate's power numbers--impressive stuff. I only got to go up the climb during the warmup. Thank god you were doing openers and not just riding tempo--I was the guy in the smurf-colored kit sucking your wheel. At the top of the climb I think you said to your teammate, "I love the air down here. You recover so quickly." "Gasp," I thought. "Cough Wheez."

Those are some incredible numbers; following your wheel on the practice ride I did exactly 6.5 w/kg from the point I jumped across a gap you guys had opened between yourselves and everyone else to the top of the climb (at which point you guys threw in a little attack that instantly left me panting 20 feet behind). And that was in 60 degree weather & not 3 hours into a race! Congrats on a really impressive performance. Maybe I'll see you in the race next year. This time I won't be using KCNC brakes, which don't work so well in the rain and before ever getting to do the climb forced me to devise a new way of stopping on a particularly sudden slowdown: https://twitpic.com/1m5vnu

ZeCanon

ha you were THAT guy! We were talking after the race about some dude who was using the Fred Flintstone method of stopping

I had zero brakes as well. I mean literally zero. Somehow the wrong pads found their way onto my bike (pretty sure I put them there... ooops) and it would have taken a good half mile to stop on that downhill. I was glad I started on the front row, I just followed the moto all the way down first lap. After the first climb we were down to a more manageable field size. I would squeeze my brakes and it would be 8-10 seconds before everything heated up enough to get rid of the water and start slowing me down. Super dumb, since with the right pads it would have been totally fine.

Being from altitude definitely helped on Friday. 50m after the top of the climb I felt like I could do it again. It also boosted threshold by about 15w by my guess, based on the pre-ride. It's too bad I'm really just not a threshold type rider, and the climb was just too long the last time up.

And yes, that effort on the warm up was at least half for show, to see who we could get rid of Hence the singing and my drum solo half way up. Just playing some head games...

How did the crit go for you?

ChaZam

Something like 60th. The more important race for me on Saturday was to Essen Haus to indulge in Das Boot (I unfortunately lost that one too due to distractions caused by a drunken Justin Bieber).

I've never been the fondest of crits, and I think it showed. I fought my way to about 15th position with 2 or 3 to go, on Pavel "the dark lord's" wheel, but when it got swarmy and sketchy I found myself not wanting it enough. Crit success, especially in collegiate fields, often seems to come down to the proper combination of top end strength, desire, and the belief that one will never die. Saturday I lacked all three, to varying extents. My legs were good & fresh, especially since I abandoned the road race, but I wasn't willing to take the chances necessary to finish near the top. Plus given that I've rarely seen my power meter register a four digit number, I probably wasn't going to set the world on fire in the field sprint. Glad to see you had another strong showing though.

kudude

found this. menso's fast
https://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=618255

ZeCanon

Sounds about right. Weird finish. Like he says, the guy who won had been dropped every lap so far, and my teammate who was 2nd did as well. However, it was my guy who brought the break back on the last lap, not Arizona. I know because I asked him to and watched him do it.