2015 Race Results
04-10-15, 12:23 AM
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crit series. 4/5. forced to sandbag because I got stuck in traffic and missed the 3/4. would've done both anyway. but got 3rd. some guy pulls out of the leadout train with 600m to go, leaving a 20 m gap that nobody could fill, not with the turns going into the finish. I just hauled ass as soon as I saw that and managed to get 3rd, but well out of contention for the win.
4 more points I think. 75 field, but not all are cat 4's. I'm going to call it 50+ according to the table and let txbra tell me otherwise.
racing in the 4/5 feels almost boring now. the gaps people leave are huge, and the lines around corners are pretty terrible. I can't say I was that much better though, because I probably cut a few people off around some corners and wasn't very steady myself at times.
4 more points I think. 75 field, but not all are cat 4's. I'm going to call it 50+ according to the table and let txbra tell me otherwise.
racing in the 4/5 feels almost boring now. the gaps people leave are huge, and the lines around corners are pretty terrible. I can't say I was that much better though, because I probably cut a few people off around some corners and wasn't very steady myself at times.
04-11-15, 01:35 PM
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Farmersville Road Race 2/3: 14th of 50ish (but only 27 finished)
Once again 25+ mph winds on a course that is completely open to the wind. 55 miles on rolling country roads with a couple kickers and a false flat sprint into the wind. This was a solid group of guys and definitely had a bunch of aggressive guys who like to get in breaks. Lap 2 one of the guys I marked went with another rider, with 2 up the road I knew they wouldn't survive, but then 2 more jumped across. I knew 4 guys could make it, but it would have to be 4 strong guys. Well they ended up staying off the front the rest of the race. The field was absolutely shattered and riders were getting shelled left and right. A little over halfway through another group of 4 rolled off the front and since the group was not working well together they slowly built a gap over the next lap and were never seen again. I stayed towards the front the whole race, but missed getting in both breaks, it was just one of those days were the breaks I did go with ended up being pulled back. I was in the 3rd group in the last lap, which was roughly 9 guys. A friend of mine went with a couple miles to go and I wanted to go with him, but I hesitated and then wasn't sure if I would have enough left so I decided to wait. Last turn is 400 meters from the finish into the wind, in my mind I knew not to go early, but I came around the turn in 2nd (not ideal) and didn't listen to myself and went way to early. Cramped up, but held on for 5th in sprint and 14th overall.
Once again 25+ mph winds on a course that is completely open to the wind. 55 miles on rolling country roads with a couple kickers and a false flat sprint into the wind. This was a solid group of guys and definitely had a bunch of aggressive guys who like to get in breaks. Lap 2 one of the guys I marked went with another rider, with 2 up the road I knew they wouldn't survive, but then 2 more jumped across. I knew 4 guys could make it, but it would have to be 4 strong guys. Well they ended up staying off the front the rest of the race. The field was absolutely shattered and riders were getting shelled left and right. A little over halfway through another group of 4 rolled off the front and since the group was not working well together they slowly built a gap over the next lap and were never seen again. I stayed towards the front the whole race, but missed getting in both breaks, it was just one of those days were the breaks I did go with ended up being pulled back. I was in the 3rd group in the last lap, which was roughly 9 guys. A friend of mine went with a couple miles to go and I wanted to go with him, but I hesitated and then wasn't sure if I would have enough left so I decided to wait. Last turn is 400 meters from the finish into the wind, in my mind I knew not to go early, but I came around the turn in 2nd (not ideal) and didn't listen to myself and went way to early. Cramped up, but held on for 5th in sprint and 14th overall.
04-11-15, 05:30 PM
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I pinned my number, I lined up, I started racing. 15 minutes in I got caught behind a crash on the prime lap and after things kind of blew up I couldn't close the gap back to what ended up being the second group. Rode the rest of the time on my own. Not sure what my official placing was, don't care.
The good news is my leg/hip was fine
The good news is my leg/hip was fine
04-11-15, 06:43 PM
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Last races of the AZ season for me last night at the State crits. Headed over straight from work and had about 10 mins to warm up. It was an interesting course, about a mile lap with a u turn in it. Nice long straight sprint to the finish.
Ended up with first place in the Open Masters and 4th in The Cat 2. There's more crit tomorrow but I think I'm done crit racing for this year unless it's part of a stage race. I've done 17 crits since January, been on the podium in 13 of them, done a few men's races, zero crashes. I'd call that successful :-)
Ended up with first place in the Open Masters and 4th in The Cat 2. There's more crit tomorrow but I think I'm done crit racing for this year unless it's part of a stage race. I've done 17 crits since January, been on the podium in 13 of them, done a few men's races, zero crashes. I'd call that successful :-)
04-11-15, 06:50 PM
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Topsport Stage Race Stage 1 - RR
4th overall, 1st/2nd of cat 2s.
Brutally hard race. was 9 laps of 9.5 miles or so. Was in a break for laps 4-8, got caught. Attacked with another dude from the first break and they let us go. 3 more bridged up and we were 5 coming into the finish. The number series were to be 0-99 for cat1, and 100-200 for c2. I blew about 20 matches with 4k to go to drop the other c2 in the break. At the finish, the 1s sprinted and I rolled across alone, out of the way.
Turns out they ****ed up and one of the guys in the 3 was a c2. WTF. I seriously raced it SO differently because we'd been told the number series...
Technically I was then 2nd of the 2s, but I'm contemplating some sort of protest. I didn't even contest the finish.
4th of 42 total, 1/2 of the 24 cat 2s.
The difference between 1st and 2nd for me today is 8 vs. 6 points, which is significant in that my total would be either 36 of req. 35, or 34 of req. 35.
4th overall, 1st/2nd of cat 2s.
Brutally hard race. was 9 laps of 9.5 miles or so. Was in a break for laps 4-8, got caught. Attacked with another dude from the first break and they let us go. 3 more bridged up and we were 5 coming into the finish. The number series were to be 0-99 for cat1, and 100-200 for c2. I blew about 20 matches with 4k to go to drop the other c2 in the break. At the finish, the 1s sprinted and I rolled across alone, out of the way.
Turns out they ****ed up and one of the guys in the 3 was a c2. WTF. I seriously raced it SO differently because we'd been told the number series...
Technically I was then 2nd of the 2s, but I'm contemplating some sort of protest. I didn't even contest the finish.
4th of 42 total, 1/2 of the 24 cat 2s.
The difference between 1st and 2nd for me today is 8 vs. 6 points, which is significant in that my total would be either 36 of req. 35, or 34 of req. 35.
04-11-15, 06:51 PM
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Last races of the AZ season for me last night at the State crits. Headed over straight from work and had about 10 mins to warm up. It was an interesting course, about a mile lap with a u turn in it. Nice long straight sprint to the finish.
Ended up with first place in the Open Masters and 4th in The Cat 2. There's more crit tomorrow but I think I'm done crit racing for this year unless it's part of a stage race. I've done 17 crits since January, been on the podium in 13 of them, done a few men's races, zero crashes. I'd call that successful :-)
Ended up with first place in the Open Masters and 4th in The Cat 2. There's more crit tomorrow but I think I'm done crit racing for this year unless it's part of a stage race. I've done 17 crits since January, been on the podium in 13 of them, done a few men's races, zero crashes. I'd call that successful :-)
04-11-15, 08:20 PM
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Do what you gotta do, but I don't see that protest going anywhere. What are they gonna do, relegate the guy because somebody gave him a particular number?
04-11-15, 08:30 PM
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1st 1st 3rd. anyway, like mattm said. shouldn't matter
04-11-15, 08:43 PM
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Topsport Stage Race Stage 1 - RR
4th overall, 1st/2nd of cat 2s.
Brutally hard race. was 9 laps of 9.5 miles or so. Was in a break for laps 4-8, got caught. Attacked with another dude from the first break and they let us go. 3 more bridged up and we were 5 coming into the finish. The number series were to be 0-99 for cat1, and 100-200 for c2. I blew about 20 matches with 4k to go to drop the other c2 in the break. At the finish, the 1s sprinted and I rolled across alone, out of the way.
Turns out they ****ed up and one of the guys in the 3 was a c2. WTF. I seriously raced it SO differently because we'd been told the number series...
Technically I was then 2nd of the 2s, but I'm contemplating some sort of protest. I didn't even contest the finish.
4th of 42 total, 1/2 of the 24 cat 2s.
The difference between 1st and 2nd for me today is 8 vs. 6 points, which is significant in that my total would be either 36 of req. 35, or 34 of req. 35.
4th overall, 1st/2nd of cat 2s.
Brutally hard race. was 9 laps of 9.5 miles or so. Was in a break for laps 4-8, got caught. Attacked with another dude from the first break and they let us go. 3 more bridged up and we were 5 coming into the finish. The number series were to be 0-99 for cat1, and 100-200 for c2. I blew about 20 matches with 4k to go to drop the other c2 in the break. At the finish, the 1s sprinted and I rolled across alone, out of the way.
Turns out they ****ed up and one of the guys in the 3 was a c2. WTF. I seriously raced it SO differently because we'd been told the number series...
Technically I was then 2nd of the 2s, but I'm contemplating some sort of protest. I didn't even contest the finish.
4th of 42 total, 1/2 of the 24 cat 2s.
The difference between 1st and 2nd for me today is 8 vs. 6 points, which is significant in that my total would be either 36 of req. 35, or 34 of req. 35.
In reading @Ygduf's post, I looked up the upgrade rules again. I never paid attention to the last sentence, "The only time a category is subtracted out for this purpose is if the prize lists were awarded separately for a combined field." I've been taking my place out of the whole, like most of us do, but all of my races usually have prizes for each Cat.
04-11-15, 08:47 PM
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this stage race reports results separately for 2s, but races them together.
fudgy, see you in Tahoe! (at nationals in July when you're a veteran cat 1)
fudgy, see you in Tahoe! (at nationals in July when you're a veteran cat 1)
04-12-15, 07:32 AM
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Daniel just got 6th / some hundred something
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04-12-15, 09:10 AM
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That's awesome, Doge!
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04-12-15, 09:23 AM
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Thank you. Looks like it is the best USA junior placing ever in that race. Trying to research it. One more place would have met a trip to worlds.
It appears looking at the results that 3 USA guys were riding in the main group :33 back from the winner. I'm only guessing from results Daniel sprinted to his position. The goal was getting the most top 10s. We barely missed it.
1 WELTEN Bram Pays-Bas les 111 km en 2h52'00''
2 EENKHOORN Pascal Pays-Bas à 00:02
3 DEWULF Stan Belgique à 00:11
4 PHILIPSEN Jasper Belgique à 00:33
5 SAJNOK Szymon Pologne mt
6 WILLETT Daniel Etats-Unis d'Amérique mt
7 HONORE Mikel Frolich Danemark mt
8 BISSEGER Stefan Suisse mt
9 TURGIS Tanguy France mt
10 FRY Joseph Grande-Bretagne mt
11 REYNOLDS Ethan Etats-Unis d'Amérique mt
12 MADDUX Jack Etats-Unis d'Amérique mt
13 ANDERSSON Vincent Suède mt
14 RUDLAND Hans Kristian Norvège mt
15 PICCOT Michel Italie mt
Lire la suite sur DirectVelo.com : Paris-Roubaix Juniors : Classement - Actualité - DirectVélo
I'll get details tomorrow when I pick him up.
It appears looking at the results that 3 USA guys were riding in the main group :33 back from the winner. I'm only guessing from results Daniel sprinted to his position. The goal was getting the most top 10s. We barely missed it.
1 WELTEN Bram Pays-Bas les 111 km en 2h52'00''
2 EENKHOORN Pascal Pays-Bas à 00:02
3 DEWULF Stan Belgique à 00:11
4 PHILIPSEN Jasper Belgique à 00:33
5 SAJNOK Szymon Pologne mt
6 WILLETT Daniel Etats-Unis d'Amérique mt
7 HONORE Mikel Frolich Danemark mt
8 BISSEGER Stefan Suisse mt
9 TURGIS Tanguy France mt
10 FRY Joseph Grande-Bretagne mt
11 REYNOLDS Ethan Etats-Unis d'Amérique mt
12 MADDUX Jack Etats-Unis d'Amérique mt
13 ANDERSSON Vincent Suède mt
14 RUDLAND Hans Kristian Norvège mt
15 PICCOT Michel Italie mt
Lire la suite sur DirectVelo.com : Paris-Roubaix Juniors : Classement - Actualité - DirectVélo
I'll get details tomorrow when I pick him up.
04-12-15, 12:58 PM
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gsteinb's rabbit remained in its hat. Series leader just sat on his wheel for an hour while 7 miscellaneous guys rode away.
04-12-15, 03:45 PM
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New Britain 45+, 8th of 46.
As mentioned above, 7 guys OTF and pretty much nobody except gsteinb chasing. He put in some good digs and with about 4 to go we were pretty close and I thought they were coming back, but to their credit they didn't give up and the gap went back out. With 2 to go they had maybe 20 seconds. I went after them at that point but it was at least a lap too late, and I don't think the field even bothered to chase me. Finished in no man's land between the break and the field sprint (which gsteinb won).
New Britain 3/4, 5th of 61.
For 34 laps the only interesting thing that happened was that I was on the receiving end of two separate CDR snot rockets, so I'm sure to get the plague now. CDR took a turn at the front to say hi to Junior, which was fun to watch. On the bell lap I didn't get to move up as much as I wanted because there was a big guy on the hill just completely not in control of his body or his bike. CDR went from the last turn, much farther than usual, like 25-30 seconds. He got a big gap right away and held it for the W. Everybody else sprinted when he went, way too far, and half the field flamed out within 100m of the line. Another upgrade point or two, something like 13/30 now.
As mentioned above, 7 guys OTF and pretty much nobody except gsteinb chasing. He put in some good digs and with about 4 to go we were pretty close and I thought they were coming back, but to their credit they didn't give up and the gap went back out. With 2 to go they had maybe 20 seconds. I went after them at that point but it was at least a lap too late, and I don't think the field even bothered to chase me. Finished in no man's land between the break and the field sprint (which gsteinb won).
New Britain 3/4, 5th of 61.
For 34 laps the only interesting thing that happened was that I was on the receiving end of two separate CDR snot rockets, so I'm sure to get the plague now. CDR took a turn at the front to say hi to Junior, which was fun to watch. On the bell lap I didn't get to move up as much as I wanted because there was a big guy on the hill just completely not in control of his body or his bike. CDR went from the last turn, much farther than usual, like 25-30 seconds. He got a big gap right away and held it for the W. Everybody else sprinted when he went, way too far, and half the field flamed out within 100m of the line. Another upgrade point or two, something like 13/30 now.
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