jsutkeepspining

Dude who runs it isn't the best. For example, they gave away my prize money to some random guy. Not a fan of that.

furiousferret

"Hey you like like a guy that would get 4th place in a road road race, here's a twenty..."

jsutkeepspining

I think there were like 24 total. Weak sauce race field size. Although, to stay with the field you had to do 7.1 wkg for 2 minutes every lap. Not a fan of climbing #climbingislame

revchuck 

fify.

jsutkeepspining

#don 'thateonmyqwapps #imslow #whydoieventry

mattm

not a terrible placing - plus u got points!

lol about the prize $$ tho.

jsutkeepspining

I was less than amused when i asked about my money, and the lady responded "one of your teammates picked it up for you"..."Femme, i ain't got no teammates in this race!!!!!!!!!"

hack

wtf? So, their mistake and you're SOL? I can see why people aren't too keen on the guy's events.

jsutkeepspining

Yep. In the end it was like 25 bucks, and causing a scene (and delaying my 3.5 hour ride home) wasn't worth it. I was a little bit annoyed to say the least.

waterrockets 

Nice work jks!

gsteinb

Greatest race ever. 8 turns in a mile or less. Start/finish at a brewery. Rode uber aggressive but not break stuck. Setting up for the sprint a guy jumped before turn 8 and hung on to beat me by a bike length. Tough sport.

save10

Colavita GP

Closed loop with a little hill on the back side. overcast and breezy.

35 +3/4
field - 30ish
a few guys snuck away a few laps in. I didnt think they would go all the way so i declined to jump across when they were just a few seconds ahead, but they did go all the way and i felt really stupid. For someone like me that needs a break to have a chance, to miss a very achievable breakaway is complete disaster. my bad. i spent the last few laps sulking at the back

2/3
field - 50?
significantly faster than the previous race. also lots of bumping and jostling and jamming bikes into spaces that didnt exist. it was really fun. I felt good. And alot of guys looked like they were hurting so that was good. on final lap i was 10ish over the hill, but got boxed in and a stream of guys went around. I think i finished right dead in the middle of the field.

35+ 123
field 40?
I was pretty much empty after two races, so this was all for character building. Also very fast. maybe faster than the 2/3s. 60 minutes of mostly single file with no breaking or jostling or elbowing. I was pretty much just hanging in on every lap and trying not to show how much i was hurting. calmed down a little bit with 7 or 8 laps to go when a Dirk Himley led breakaway escaped. The final acceleration up the hill on the bell lap cracked me and i rolled with a handfull of other dudes.

3 races, each harder than the one before and pretty hard ride yesterday. My biggest race of the year is next week and i hoping to be fresh and strong for that.

mattm

@save10 nice racing - three in a row, ouch!

mattm

@tetonrider I'm looking forward to reading your race report from cascade!!

thechemist

state championship crit: wiped out and took a tour through some gravel and cable fencing. Was sitting 10th wheel in last lap with all of my matches ready to go. Top 5 EASY......GGGGGRRRRR im fine physically though

shovelhd

Sounds painful.

UmneyDurak

Colavity GP

Small field of 28 people. The course was actually fun. It had couple technical(ish) turns, and a small bump to keep things interesting. Missed my chance to move up the front, and didn't have the legs to move up on the hill, so was way out of position for the final turn. Finished 11th, bleh. Half assed it on the finish line, not sure what happened to the rest of the field no one was really around me. Another frustrating race.

save10

damn. what could have been!

tetonrider

you had some teammates here so i'm sure you got their update. i'm on a race-cation with family so it might be a little bit...or maybe i'll type something up later tonight.

1st race back from a broken bone, so some things went great and others less so, but cascade is just...awesome.

valygrl

I've been posting my race reports in the old folks home, here's the summary:

Salida weekend SW3

TT - 8/10, tried hard but poor result, got stuck behind someone who passed me and then slowed down and warned for drafting by the moto ref

Crit - 3/13 podium! technical fast figure 8. they raced SW3 with the P12 scored separately. spent 19 minutes over AT in a 50 minute crit

RR - 5 laps of a short hilly circuit, hot, asthma, couldn't eat, dropped, suffer immensely for next-to-last, but got to work with a team mate and another team mate podiumed.

Ygduf

I'm just psyched that my friend won the 2s GC at Cascade. My pick for Nats RR this year.

mattm

he's gotta be close to upgrading right?

great riding from him though!! it's been torture following cascade on fb..

grolby

Yowza. Glad you're okay.

Ygduf

Jeromy was doing all masters races for the cal cup series, I think. He locked that up so I expect he'll be upgrading in a couple races. If he didn't get the points here, he'll get them next race. He's a track omnium national champion who can TT and climb. Makes it look too easy.

Hermes

I like the summary... In aggregate, a great weekend of racing.