2015 Race Results
05-11-15, 09:40 AM
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In my own races, not as good. 35+ I made a sweet bridge and joined a 9-man break with a newb teammate in it. He's a great rider but weak racer still. We stayed clear and he's a better sprinter than I am so I strung it out for the last 3 minutes. He lost his nerve in the final corner and we went 8th/10th. Bit of a disappointment, but it's reps, and he was my only teammate out there so I'm not going to cry about it. I'd rather be come out and get the practice, even if it means I get 10th instead of 6th. I'm not winning a break sprint anyway.
05-11-15, 09:42 AM
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2 Red Kite crits on Sunday, first week in a while with AWC work, a lot of miles this week and hella hard race yesterday so wasn't sure how I'd feel. Turned out to have heavy legs and lots of burning sensation any time I went semi-hard.
E 3/4
Someone attacked at the start as usual, I went to try and jump start my legs. Caught and Frank Yang countered within a lap. Strong dude had 2 with him and I knew he had a good shot at staying away but I just didn't have the legs for it. Pack was disorganized, I attacked a few times, pulled a few times but the whole race we averaged only 25.4 mph and the 3 guys stayed away. 3 laps to go I follow a move, pass, work, then let him pull around and he yells at me that he never got on my wheel. Probably my fault for going by with too much speed. Caught and coming up on the last lap another guy takes off, I wait til the bell and jump to go after him, catch and sling around for a boost but it wasn't enough with the fatigue from the 3 to go attack, caught before the last corner.
E2/3
Holy smokes, this was hard. I think it was just me though, others didn't think it was as bad as I did. Halfway in a teammate says we have to move up cuz the field is falling apart. I look around and sure it's strung out a lot but... and then we were both on the wrong side of a split, 20 guys up the road and 20 in back attacking the crap out of each other trying to bridge. Legs were in boatloads of pain, but every attack could be the race so I went with as many as I could (not many), even gave a few hard pulls. We were almost together at the bell, but suddenly everyone was waiting for the other guy to heroically pull us together. Ended up making contact with the stragglers of the lead group as the sprint was underway.
E 3/4
Someone attacked at the start as usual, I went to try and jump start my legs. Caught and Frank Yang countered within a lap. Strong dude had 2 with him and I knew he had a good shot at staying away but I just didn't have the legs for it. Pack was disorganized, I attacked a few times, pulled a few times but the whole race we averaged only 25.4 mph and the 3 guys stayed away. 3 laps to go I follow a move, pass, work, then let him pull around and he yells at me that he never got on my wheel. Probably my fault for going by with too much speed. Caught and coming up on the last lap another guy takes off, I wait til the bell and jump to go after him, catch and sling around for a boost but it wasn't enough with the fatigue from the 3 to go attack, caught before the last corner.
E2/3
Holy smokes, this was hard. I think it was just me though, others didn't think it was as bad as I did. Halfway in a teammate says we have to move up cuz the field is falling apart. I look around and sure it's strung out a lot but... and then we were both on the wrong side of a split, 20 guys up the road and 20 in back attacking the crap out of each other trying to bridge. Legs were in boatloads of pain, but every attack could be the race so I went with as many as I could (not many), even gave a few hard pulls. We were almost together at the bell, but suddenly everyone was waiting for the other guy to heroically pull us together. Ended up making contact with the stragglers of the lead group as the sprint was underway.
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05-11-15, 09:44 AM
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Great win and great report. Why do you think the field went from mark-him-no-matter-what to let-him-go mode? Or are you being humble and they just couldn't respond when you rolled off the front?
05-11-15, 09:51 AM
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I have been summoned!
@Doge : I dunno, I guess whoever owns the finish-line camera @mikey : Ohhhh com'on my last name is not that hard (Actually it is)
I guess now I should give a race report.
Race predictor told me (and everyone else under the burning hot sun) I was gonna win, so I knew people were going to be watching me atleast a little bit. The race was surprisingly tame for the first 2 laps or so. I just made sure to be in the front 5 guys over the climb and did my best to work only when needed. On the second lap one guy with some teammates in the field went up the road, that is when I started to think about making a break, it was also when the field decided that it would be cool to just sit on my wheel so we proceeded to ride around at about 16mph until I decided I wasn't going to pedal anymore.
Of course that pissed off some people in the field but honestly, if you sit on my wheel and I go 16 mph at the front of the field, tough ****, I will coast to a dead stop and then track-stand till you stop trying to stick me on the front of the pack.
That got people riding again and we got up to a respectable pace for a Cat 2 field and were subsequently told that the one guy OTF was up 50 seconds. About 4 miles from the finish (The long slightly downhill section of chewed up pavement) I was allowed to just roll off the front (a common theme in how I have gotten my wins). I bridged up to him at the base of the climb (right after the downhill hairpin turn) and I just went into long distance break mode. 50 miles to go.
I was letting him take KOM points and I was taking sprint points until right after the 3rd lap at the top of the climb where he burned out. He fell off my wheel saying "Just go for it you don't need me" so I just put my head down and drove it. Next time around on the climb (~30 miles to go) I started cramping , oh boy, 30 to go and I am cramping. Well I proceeded to down all the water I could, in a strange twist of fate my teammate forgot his shoes before the race so he was at the feed zone. I took every bottle I could grab, I was downing 2+ bottles a lap and was still dehydrated.
From there I stuck it out, and rolled across the line 4:26 ahead with both the KOM and Sprint classification in hand. And I got a sweet finish-line photo. (it really came out better than expected.)
@Doge : I dunno, I guess whoever owns the finish-line camera @mikey : Ohhhh com'on my last name is not that hard (Actually it is)
I guess now I should give a race report.
Race predictor told me (and everyone else under the burning hot sun) I was gonna win, so I knew people were going to be watching me atleast a little bit. The race was surprisingly tame for the first 2 laps or so. I just made sure to be in the front 5 guys over the climb and did my best to work only when needed. On the second lap one guy with some teammates in the field went up the road, that is when I started to think about making a break, it was also when the field decided that it would be cool to just sit on my wheel so we proceeded to ride around at about 16mph until I decided I wasn't going to pedal anymore.
Of course that pissed off some people in the field but honestly, if you sit on my wheel and I go 16 mph at the front of the field, tough ****, I will coast to a dead stop and then track-stand till you stop trying to stick me on the front of the pack.
That got people riding again and we got up to a respectable pace for a Cat 2 field and were subsequently told that the one guy OTF was up 50 seconds. About 4 miles from the finish (The long slightly downhill section of chewed up pavement) I was allowed to just roll off the front (a common theme in how I have gotten my wins). I bridged up to him at the base of the climb (right after the downhill hairpin turn) and I just went into long distance break mode. 50 miles to go.
I was letting him take KOM points and I was taking sprint points until right after the 3rd lap at the top of the climb where he burned out. He fell off my wheel saying "Just go for it you don't need me" so I just put my head down and drove it. Next time around on the climb (~30 miles to go) I started cramping , oh boy, 30 to go and I am cramping. Well I proceeded to down all the water I could, in a strange twist of fate my teammate forgot his shoes before the race so he was at the feed zone. I took every bottle I could grab, I was downing 2+ bottles a lap and was still dehydrated.
From there I stuck it out, and rolled across the line 4:26 ahead with both the KOM and Sprint classification in hand. And I got a sweet finish-line photo. (it really came out better than expected.)
I just cant believe you're still a Cat 2 :-).
05-11-15, 10:41 AM
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Just had to share this finish line photo of a BF member winning the cat 2 race at Bear. Love the shadow.
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05-11-15, 10:56 AM
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congrats MattM and everyone else
Red Kite 35+ 3/4
result: non-winner
several breaks went away. one escaped half way through the race and the teams that missed the break did not seem to care at all. no one wanted to work or seemed capable of working. I'm racing unattached so i am not going to work at the front for these lazy teams. i wanted to go, but on my own. with 5 laps to go i tried to escape the group and was quickly closed. literally the first time in the race that the field seemed to give a damn about anything. Half a lap later i went again and actually escaped with another guy. some one yelled about out a time check - 20 seconds - what a disaster of race this was. it was 4 against 2 so the odds were bad, but we kept on. by the start of the bell lap some had yelled out 8 seconds. but the guy with me was on fumes i/we could not get it closer...maybe 6 seconds if someone was timing. the break stayed away and our secondary break was caught in the final corner. If there was three of us instead of two it would have been interesting - a real possibility of catching the break or at least staying away. bleh.
Red Kite 35+ 3/4
result: non-winner
several breaks went away. one escaped half way through the race and the teams that missed the break did not seem to care at all. no one wanted to work or seemed capable of working. I'm racing unattached so i am not going to work at the front for these lazy teams. i wanted to go, but on my own. with 5 laps to go i tried to escape the group and was quickly closed. literally the first time in the race that the field seemed to give a damn about anything. Half a lap later i went again and actually escaped with another guy. some one yelled about out a time check - 20 seconds - what a disaster of race this was. it was 4 against 2 so the odds were bad, but we kept on. by the start of the bell lap some had yelled out 8 seconds. but the guy with me was on fumes i/we could not get it closer...maybe 6 seconds if someone was timing. the break stayed away and our secondary break was caught in the final corner. If there was three of us instead of two it would have been interesting - a real possibility of catching the break or at least staying away. bleh.
05-11-15, 11:04 AM
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Awesome Matt, huge congrats! Savor that. Very few people make it to that level, fewer win there.
Tales from the cripple (me); hung on my former pupil's wheel to win the SoCal Champ 2 man geezer TTT Saturday with a 50:57. Write up over in the AARP forum. Mutt team so no jersey, just the satisfaction of racing hard.
And congrats to KP as well!
Tales from the cripple (me); hung on my former pupil's wheel to win the SoCal Champ 2 man geezer TTT Saturday with a 50:57. Write up over in the AARP forum. Mutt team so no jersey, just the satisfaction of racing hard.
And congrats to KP as well!
05-11-15, 12:17 PM
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BF is rocking so hard my podium finishes barely warrant an attaboy. We should have a BF team.
05-11-15, 12:58 PM
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Bear Mtn. I am the NY state champion, was 3rd overall. Broke away solo on the rollers over the top of the 3mi climb with ~10 miles to go. 2 dudes eventually bridged to me and I wasn't capable of contributing anymore so I told them I wouldn't contest the sprint if they did the work. We held the gap. Upgrade points, money, a medal, and a jersey. Good day is good.
05-11-15, 01:33 PM
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I watched the cat 4 race because my teammates had a plan. Yuriy has been doing a superb job of getting teammates across the line first, and the others decided to pay him back. He isn't a spriner but he has a great kilo, so they were to set up a 3 man leadout too fast for anyone to come around and launch him early for a loong sprint.2 to go I saw them come by fairly bunched up near the front. At the bell I saw Ben pulling the train to the front. Anton took it around corner one at 33 mph. Chris held the pace around corner 2 as Anton squeezed in behind Yuriy and faded with everyone behind him. I watched the final corner and saw Yuriy come around, counted about 5 seconds before the rest showed up.
05-11-15, 02:25 PM
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Sort of? I went on the climb about 3/4 up...that last steep section I attacked up and over in the big ring but still had like a dozen dudes stuck on my wheel so I sat up, then on the rollers afterward it seemed like guys were trying to rest and were looking at each other so I used the momentum down one to launch up another and kind of just went for it. My actual plan was to leave it for 5k to go...not 9 miles to go. My coach had pinpointed the rollers as a good place to launch from and I'm glad I did.
Guy #1 bridged up to me after ~3-4 miles and it was obvious pretty quickly that he was feeling strong and I wanted us to stay away so I told him I wouldn't contest if he gave it his all and I did what I could...and he did, and I was 90% sure he was from out of state. Ian Clarke (who has had his points for cat 2 since sometime last July?) bridged up to us with 5k to go and I knew he was from VT so I just stuck with the plan and took the pulls I could. We did just enough to finish out front, the field was breathing down our necks coming to the line.
Also thanks everyone.
Guy #1 bridged up to me after ~3-4 miles and it was obvious pretty quickly that he was feeling strong and I wanted us to stay away so I told him I wouldn't contest if he gave it his all and I did what I could...and he did, and I was 90% sure he was from out of state. Ian Clarke (who has had his points for cat 2 since sometime last July?) bridged up to us with 5k to go and I knew he was from VT so I just stuck with the plan and took the pulls I could. We did just enough to finish out front, the field was breathing down our necks coming to the line.
Also thanks everyone.
Also goes to other folks. Some great racing this weekend!
05-11-15, 02:29 PM
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I watched the cat 4 race because my teammates had a plan. Yuriy has been doing a superb job of getting teammates across the line first, and the others decided to pay him back. He isn't a spriner but he has a great kilo, so they were to set up a 3 man leadout too fast for anyone to come around and launch him early for a loong sprint.2 to go I saw them come by fairly bunched up near the front. At the bell I saw Ben pulling the train to the front. Anton took it around corner one at 33 mph. Chris held the pace around corner 2 as Anton squeezed in behind Yuriy and faded with everyone behind him. I watched the final corner and saw Yuriy come around, counted about 5 seconds before the rest showed up.
Also Congrats mattm, gsteinb, racerex, tkp!
05-11-15, 02:35 PM
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05-11-15, 02:36 PM
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I watched the cat 4 race because my teammates had a plan. Yuriy has been doing a superb job of getting teammates across the line first, and the others decided to pay him back. He isn't a spriner but he has a great kilo, so they were to set up a 3 man leadout too fast for anyone to come around and launch him early for a loong sprint.2 to go I saw them come by fairly bunched up near the front. At the bell I saw Ben pulling the train to the front. Anton took it around corner one at 33 mph. Chris held the pace around corner 2 as Anton squeezed in behind Yuriy and faded with everyone behind him. I watched the final corner and saw Yuriy come around, counted about 5 seconds before the rest showed up.
I race him at the SJBC crits often, and don't discount him even though he's a 4 (for now).
05-11-15, 04:40 PM
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My experience has been this: If you think you may not make it, they won't either, that is the time to go.
