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06-15-16, 06:00 AM
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06-15-16, 06:16 AM
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Thanks .. found the flyer, it's a points race. From the results it looks like small, very fast fields. Some major names there. I might try to make one of these as I need to make a pilgrimage to Easton PA for a bike re-fit anyway.
https://www.chipscyclingstudio.com/up...permit_2_8.pdf
https://www.chipscyclingstudio.com/up...permit_2_8.pdf
06-15-16, 12:00 PM
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So one of the tested at Nutmeg must have been random since he was a DNF.
When I worked a UCI race they tested one random I think 3 times. His director was like "look, I'm all for testing but to be one of the two randoms three days in a row is ridiculous!". My understanding was that although he was not a podium rider they were targeting him, like "top three, that guy, and this (actual) random" kind of feel. I was his chaperone twice and felt kind of bad.
Thing to me was that if the guy really was doping I think that testing him 3 days in a row was a bit excessive. You're going to catch him when he's not expecting it, not during a big race.
He didn't test positive.
When I worked a UCI race they tested one random I think 3 times. His director was like "look, I'm all for testing but to be one of the two randoms three days in a row is ridiculous!". My understanding was that although he was not a podium rider they were targeting him, like "top three, that guy, and this (actual) random" kind of feel. I was his chaperone twice and felt kind of bad.
Thing to me was that if the guy really was doping I think that testing him 3 days in a row was a bit excessive. You're going to catch him when he's not expecting it, not during a big race.
He didn't test positive.
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06-16-16, 08:15 PM
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Is longsjo a thing? I know a guy going out there and he's pretty incredible.
06-16-16, 09:12 PM
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06-17-16, 05:25 AM
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From what I experienced last year and what I've heard Longsjo is the brutz. Day 3 last year was raining like hell as well. A fun time was not had by all.
06-17-16, 07:55 AM
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Look at the road-results race predictor. I assume your guy is the current #1 predicted in the 40+. In both the 40+ and P12 any of the current top 8 guys in the predictor could win. Plus there are some wild cards further down, guys with inaccurately low numbers, but the top 8 in both are sort of the cream of the crop. Also it's early so there could be more strong guys coming in later.
06-17-16, 08:04 AM
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yeah, the rider list is still pretty empty buncha human motorcycles will come out of the woodwork before prereg closes.
06-17-16, 09:26 AM
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Usually it isn't low 60's and raining for Fitchburg. It's a great race, all three are great races in fact, and the new course for Friday in Leominster looks totally cray. In a good way.
06-17-16, 10:16 AM
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I looked at the predictor. My teammates sit 4th and 5th in the 40+. They're all or nothing, either they'll do well or they'll DNF.
In the P12 the first three are definitely ones to look out for although the first and third riders are more national than local. Second rider has been raging, he's the one that won stuff early on and upgraded to Cat 1 so he could go to Athens and stuff. Lapped the field in Athens after bridging to the break, got 8th or something.
I wonder if USADA will test. It seems like a natural place to test.
In the P12 the first three are definitely ones to look out for although the first and third riders are more national than local. Second rider has been raging, he's the one that won stuff early on and upgraded to Cat 1 so he could go to Athens and stuff. Lapped the field in Athens after bridging to the break, got 8th or something.
I wonder if USADA will test. It seems like a natural place to test.
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06-17-16, 07:12 PM
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Longsjo is the real deal. Crit week is general is the real deal. Good luck to your teammate. After this weekend I'm off until August so that I can focus on Hilltowns.
06-18-16, 05:37 AM
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Giro Del Cielo... thoughts?
06-18-16, 09:27 AM
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06-18-16, 09:31 AM
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There's a bit of a knock by some that it's an omnium and not a stage race, but from what I've heard (my teammates do it) it's a first rate affair. Some folks have complained about the way It's been run it the past, but anyone I know and respect that's done it the past few years has nothing but accolades for it. The crit course is fun, and challenging. There's a regular weekday spring crit on it.
06-18-16, 11:33 AM
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It's a fun, relatively mellow event. I did it in maybe their 2nd year of its more or less current version (at first it was a women-only event? I think) and it was just terribly planned and organized and genuinely unsafe, and I swore I'd never do it again and told everybody else never to do it. But IMO they have completely corrected all of the problems. I did the crit and RR last year and it was great. I'm already signed up for this year.
It's somewhere in between a stage race and an omnium. Some years they have separated out the GC and non-GC fields; last year they were combined. The TT, which I haven't done on the current course, is reportedly tough (lots of up and down). The crit is the Augusta fairgrounds crit which I've done dozens of times, wide open course with a short hill, really fun course, not at all technical. The circuit race I've done twice, it's mostly flat, except for very fast downhill finish to an uphill sprint, not at all a selective course. Both the crit and the RR are almost always won out of a break for some reason -- might have more to do with the competitors than the course, I don't know.
It's somewhere in between a stage race and an omnium. Some years they have separated out the GC and non-GC fields; last year they were combined. The TT, which I haven't done on the current course, is reportedly tough (lots of up and down). The crit is the Augusta fairgrounds crit which I've done dozens of times, wide open course with a short hill, really fun course, not at all technical. The circuit race I've done twice, it's mostly flat, except for very fast downhill finish to an uphill sprint, not at all a selective course. Both the crit and the RR are almost always won out of a break for some reason -- might have more to do with the competitors than the course, I don't know.
06-22-16, 03:03 PM
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I'll be at Longsjo Day 3 in the 4's. I'm terrible at crits - just hoping to make it to the finish line without getting lapped. Did not succeed at that last year so....we'll see.