The Race Report Thread 2009-2012
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Tour De Mount Pleasant here in michigan. 16 miles in, a jackass in his first race decided to grab a ton of brakes on the straight flat road we were on crashing me and 6 others, Cracked my pelvis and spent 5 hours in the hospital yay. down for at least a month... but its minor, so im just limited to crutches and no weight bearing. bah. bike seems ok.
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(I read below before edit) Homebrew, shovel told me you were there; I'll have to look up your kit because I couldn't discern it while in the race. I will absolutely take you up on that offer. Your result looked decent to me. And if you want to go during the race at some juncture, just let me know and I can diesel for a bit.
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River City Bicycle Classic - Evansville, IN.
Our first local race in twenty years. I was on the planning committee so my results were crummy but the race went off without a hitch. A great success and we'll be doing it again next year! Take note Ohio valley residents!
Our first local race in twenty years. I was on the planning committee so my results were crummy but the race went off without a hitch. A great success and we'll be doing it again next year! Take note Ohio valley residents!
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06-11-12, 12:14 AM
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Tour De Mount Pleasant here in michigan. 16 miles in, a jackass in his first race decided to grab a ton of brakes on the straight flat road we were on crashing me and 6 others, Cracked my pelvis and spent 5 hours in the hospital yay. down for at least a month... but its minor, so im just limited to crutches and no weight bearing. bah. bike seems ok.
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Nice.
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Tour De Mount Pleasant here in michigan. 16 miles in, a jackass in his first race decided to grab a ton of brakes on the straight flat road we were on crashing me and 6 others, Cracked my pelvis and spent 5 hours in the hospital yay. down for at least a month... but its minor, so im just limited to crutches and no weight bearing. bah. bike seems ok.
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Tour De Mount Pleasant here in michigan. 16 miles in, a jackass in his first race decided to grab a ton of brakes on the straight flat road we were on crashing me and 6 others, Cracked my pelvis and spent 5 hours in the hospital yay. down for at least a month... but its minor, so im just limited to crutches and no weight bearing. bah. bike seems ok.
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay. Good luck with your BAR challenge. Upgrading can wait until that is decided.
06-11-12, 06:49 AM
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It is the perfect course for new racers, wide open, easy turns, smooth surface.
And the side of town it's on is closer to Gainesville.
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06-11-12, 06:50 AM
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Junior from that day, during the P123 race (which I watched... jeepers it looked fast):
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GRW -- hey, pretty good for just tooling around.
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Caloso -- like golf, banish the negative thoughts and only have good swing thoughts.
Mattm -- still, clearly you are quickly getting the hang of it and can compete for podiums.
Merlin -- nice to make goals; impressive "facilities"
RX -- There's an RX for that.
MC-T -- you are a tuff guy.
Darb -- ow, yucko, glad it sounds more manageable that one would think.
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Caloso -- like golf, banish the negative thoughts and only have good swing thoughts.Mattm -- still, clearly you are quickly getting the hang of it and can compete for podiums.
Merlin -- nice to make goals; impressive "facilities"
RX -- There's an RX for that.
MC-T -- you are a tuff guy.
Darb -- ow, yucko, glad it sounds more manageable that one would think.
06-11-12, 07:33 AM
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SC RR Championships - Cat 4
Should have known better, but lined up mid/rear pack. Once we started going, there was no moving up. I've never seen so many content people. I was slowly squeezing my way through, when someone dropped a bottle. Chaos ensued, and everyone dodged the bottle and came out OK. 5 seconds later, a whole row of us hit a massive ugly pot hole, unsuspecting after the bottle chaos. I pinch flatted immediately. No wheel truck today for us, so my race was over. After getting picked up by the SAG truck of the pro women's race behind, we ended up picking up 4 other people that had flatted. Most unfortunate day. 10 miles wasn't much of a race.
Good news is when I got in the car my Cat 3 was approved, so that was my last Cat 4 race!
Should have known better, but lined up mid/rear pack. Once we started going, there was no moving up. I've never seen so many content people. I was slowly squeezing my way through, when someone dropped a bottle. Chaos ensued, and everyone dodged the bottle and came out OK. 5 seconds later, a whole row of us hit a massive ugly pot hole, unsuspecting after the bottle chaos. I pinch flatted immediately. No wheel truck today for us, so my race was over. After getting picked up by the SAG truck of the pro women's race behind, we ended up picking up 4 other people that had flatted. Most unfortunate day. 10 miles wasn't much of a race.
Good news is when I got in the car my Cat 3 was approved, so that was my last Cat 4 race!
06-11-12, 07:48 AM
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American Pride Crit, Newport News, VA, 6/9/2012.
This was the first racing I've done since upgrading out of cat 5, so I didn't expect much for the day.
Masters 30+: Not sure why I thought this was a good idea to sign up for, but I did. A new cat 4 probably doesn't have much business in a race that half the participants were cat 2, but it was a (very) small field (16), so I figured "What the hell?". I thought I'd try to hold on for a few laps before be blown off the back. Much to my surprise, I held on the full race, finished with the pack, and didn't come in dead last as I expected. 12/16. I'll certainly put that one down in the "Good Experience" book. The difference in how the group approaches corners in a race like that is such a learning experience. I'm used to the brake fest that cat 5 is as you approach a corner. This was infinitely smoother.
Cat 4: First actual cat 4 race post upgrade. Still not a big field (27? starters), but we have to take what we can get in south eastern VA. Only plan for the race was to not do anything stupid, stay off the front, and away from the back. All was fine until 11 laps to go when a puncture became a sealant fountain, spraying down my leg and frame (Conti Sprinter tubular, under 2 weeks old, awesome). Luckily I'd brought wheels to the wheel pit, and it happened just past the pit (and the free laps went away @ lap 10). Changed the wheel, jumped back on the back of the group next time around, and started moving back up. Laps clicked down, kept moving up, crossed the line in 9th. I'll take that as the first actual cat 4 result.
This was the first racing I've done since upgrading out of cat 5, so I didn't expect much for the day.
Masters 30+: Not sure why I thought this was a good idea to sign up for, but I did. A new cat 4 probably doesn't have much business in a race that half the participants were cat 2, but it was a (very) small field (16), so I figured "What the hell?". I thought I'd try to hold on for a few laps before be blown off the back. Much to my surprise, I held on the full race, finished with the pack, and didn't come in dead last as I expected. 12/16. I'll certainly put that one down in the "Good Experience" book. The difference in how the group approaches corners in a race like that is such a learning experience. I'm used to the brake fest that cat 5 is as you approach a corner. This was infinitely smoother.
Cat 4: First actual cat 4 race post upgrade. Still not a big field (27? starters), but we have to take what we can get in south eastern VA. Only plan for the race was to not do anything stupid, stay off the front, and away from the back. All was fine until 11 laps to go when a puncture became a sealant fountain, spraying down my leg and frame (Conti Sprinter tubular, under 2 weeks old, awesome). Luckily I'd brought wheels to the wheel pit, and it happened just past the pit (and the free laps went away @ lap 10). Changed the wheel, jumped back on the back of the group next time around, and started moving back up. Laps clicked down, kept moving up, crossed the line in 9th. I'll take that as the first actual cat 4 result.
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Now that you've had a taste of the smooth cornering, you're going to find the Cat4 races, and especially 4-5 if they do those in your region, pretty dang frustrating.
06-11-12, 08:18 AM
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Yeah, the 4 race was definitely different than the Masters race. It wasn't as bad as the 5 races, but it wasn't that much better. The are some 4/5 races around here, but they are luckily the exception.
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Nutmeg on Saturday. Unfortunately I'm no Shovel in crits, and Saturday was not my day. I went with the one move I thought was promising, but there was nothing doing. Right when it got caught, but while the field was still strung-out single file, with me third wheel, is where I normally would have countered, but since my breathing was already crap, I just settled in and recovered. They didn't give us laps until 5 to go, which was 5 minutes before I was expecting it (they cut the race short), and like BG I just could not find anywhere to move up. The dude on the mountain bike in the middle of the downhill lefthand turn going into the sprint was another nice surprise. Kudos to the chick who bunny-hopped onto the grass to go around him and keep it all upright. I just rolled in at the back.
Sunday was the TTT, which I repeatedly asked to be excused from, given my inability to put in any efforts longer than a minute. Judicious wheel-sucking makes me look deceptively stronger than I really am, which I've tried to explain over and over, but our dumb team manager insisted on my being on our A team anyways. She got what was coming to her when I pulled myself from the race exactly 1:10 into it, choking and gasping and generally flipping out. That's the worst I've ever experienced this no-breathing thing, and it was kind of terrifying. Overall it was a really bad experience. I'm a big girl and should have been firmer about not doing the race, but I guess part of me still wants to believe that I can just 'try harder' to will my way through it. We lost to our competitor for the season-long team competition by 15". They only needed 3 to cross the line, but even having a weaker fourth for some of the race probably would have saved them those 15 seconds.
Sunday was the TTT, which I repeatedly asked to be excused from, given my inability to put in any efforts longer than a minute. Judicious wheel-sucking makes me look deceptively stronger than I really am, which I've tried to explain over and over, but our dumb team manager insisted on my being on our A team anyways. She got what was coming to her when I pulled myself from the race exactly 1:10 into it, choking and gasping and generally flipping out. That's the worst I've ever experienced this no-breathing thing, and it was kind of terrifying. Overall it was a really bad experience. I'm a big girl and should have been firmer about not doing the race, but I guess part of me still wants to believe that I can just 'try harder' to will my way through it. We lost to our competitor for the season-long team competition by 15". They only needed 3 to cross the line, but even having a weaker fourth for some of the race probably would have saved them those 15 seconds.
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GRW -- hey, pretty good for just tooling around.
ftfy
Caloso -- like golf, banish the negative thoughts and only have good swing thoughts.
Mattm -- still, clearly you are quickly getting the hang of it and can compete for podiums.
Merlin -- nice to make goals; impressive "facilities"
RX -- There's an RX for that.
MC-T -- you are a tuff guy.
Darb -- ow, yucko, glad it sounds more manageable that one would think.
ftfy
Caloso -- like golf, banish the negative thoughts and only have good swing thoughts.
Mattm -- still, clearly you are quickly getting the hang of it and can compete for podiums.
Merlin -- nice to make goals; impressive "facilities"
RX -- There's an RX for that.
MC-T -- you are a tuff guy.
Darb -- ow, yucko, glad it sounds more manageable that one would think.
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Sunday was my fourth race of the season and third DNF. I didn't drop out but got lapped just a few hundred meters from the finish line and that's what they put on the results. Despite that result I actually felt pretty good about my race. I put in a little attack early just to get myself into the race and felt reasonably strong until about 5 laps to go (out of 16) when the heat started to get to me a bit. Shortly after I was off the back, working with a few other stragglers to at least finish the race.
I'm coming to accept that my upgrade to Senior 3 may have been a bit premature and it's taking me a while to get used to the faster pace and longer distances. This season is looking more and more like a write off but I've learned lots about myself, my level of commitment to this sport (or lack thereof), and the importance of doing a proper off-season base period, particularly with my unusually small engine. Got a few weeks off until my next race so hopefully I can bump up the fitness a bit and maybe land some pack finishes for the second half of the season.
I'm coming to accept that my upgrade to Senior 3 may have been a bit premature and it's taking me a while to get used to the faster pace and longer distances. This season is looking more and more like a write off but I've learned lots about myself, my level of commitment to this sport (or lack thereof), and the importance of doing a proper off-season base period, particularly with my unusually small engine. Got a few weeks off until my next race so hopefully I can bump up the fitness a bit and maybe land some pack finishes for the second half of the season.
06-11-12, 11:45 AM
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Sunshine HC, boulder, CO.
2 hours of sleep + locked up FD than forced me to climb the first steep section in my big ring (thereby missing the first attack) = pretty disappointing day. ended up 9th on a very tough course though.
i know that so far this season i am climbing better than that result shows. big bummer. i'll be back.
2 hours of sleep + locked up FD than forced me to climb the first steep section in my big ring (thereby missing the first attack) = pretty disappointing day. ended up 9th on a very tough course though.
i know that so far this season i am climbing better than that result shows. big bummer. i'll be back.
