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bonesbrigade
Apr 14, 12 19:05
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Nice race Chris. Unfortunately I flatted at around the 55km mark. I got a slow wheel change, and the support vehicle tried to pace me back, but he didn't seem to know how to do it.
I remember covering a couple of your attacks just before I flatted - it would have been nice to battle it out with you guys in the end.
Riding solo for 45km sucked to say the least.
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tri_yoda
Apr 14, 12 21:09
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Carl Spackler wrote:
Have to say that race and venue is everything it's billed to be. Simply awesome and I hope to be back next year.
Btw, yoda was spot on about time prediction of 2:45-- to the minute.
Wright road was the worst I have seen any dirt section in this race ever, in terms of just being like sand. I saw several guys basically pull off to the side because they were almost losing it on the downhill sections here.. I powered through it, but was seriously worried I might lay it down. I guess CX racing experience has some value;)
kdw and murphyslaw took 1-2 in one of the cat 5 fields. Great day to be out on a ride.
kdw
Apr 15, 12 6:31
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A great day for my first crack at road racing. Was charity ride easy for 40 miles...at a couple of points we were doing ~16 mph waiting for someone to pull through. Only kalber seemed to have any inclination to go for a flyer and he took a couple of cracks. Our selection happened on Wrights rd. Unfortunately, ML got caught back a bit and had to bridge up to 3 of us on the break. He used a lot of matches doing that. By the top of Meetinghouse it was ML and I. By stage rd there was nobody in sight, and I managed to get 20 secs on ML up stage rd ftw.
Carl Spackler
Apr 15, 12 10:03
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Yeah, Wright was where the final selection happened in ours. A few hairy spots that you had to hit at full gas. Like Harry Hogge said, "loose is fast and on the verge of outta control." That was fun.
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kdw
Apr 15, 12 10:38
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I wanted to slow down on wright's but I was more afraid of hitting the brakes then I was of going faster. At least it was a straightaway.
Nice job out there.
ackvor
Apr 16, 12 5:42
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Good race guys. Which cat 5 field were you you in?
aarondavidson
Apr 16, 12 6:34
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kdw wrote:
A great day for my first crack at road racing. Was charity ride easy for 40 miles...at a couple of points we were doing ~16 mph waiting for someone to pull through. Only kalber seemed to have any inclination to go for a flyer and he took a couple of cracks. Our selection happened on Wrights rd. Unfortunately, ML got caught back a bit and had to bridge up to 3 of us on the break. He used a lot of matches doing that. By the top of Meetinghouse it was ML and I. By stage rd there was nobody in sight, and I managed to get 20 secs on ML up stage rd ftw.
My first road race as well. I wish that was my group. My group pushed the pace from the start and started attacking at 10miles in. The climb toward the end was surprisingly easy. I almost ran through a guy on one of the downhill dirt sections. He kept drifting left and I cleared him by inches.
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Apr 16, 12 6:35
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Thx, Cat 5 35+ white
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mopdahl
Apr 16, 12 7:14
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My friend who was doing his first road race ever was in your group. He had no problems till the selection happened, then dropped 30 min in the last 20 miles.
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mks75
Apr 16, 12 9:44
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I was in that field as well. Was at the front whole race up until mile 50-51 then my legs said "I'm done". Crawled in from there.
prattzc
Apr 16, 12 11:05
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Congrats to all you Catskill guys. Nice to see Kevin and Keith up there too in the stats.
See you all in less than 5 weeks.
http://www.teamprattz.com/
KAlber
Apr 16, 12 12:13
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sounds strikingly familiar.
"where'd they go?....where'd who goooooo??"
I was honestly hating life for the last 14 miles (during which I lost 15 minutes)...ouch. looking at my power file explains a lot about why i was hating life so much. awesome day though.
KevinMartin
Apr 16, 12 15:04
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ZP. Good to hear from you. I got left behind early when the chain dropped on a gear change up one of the first ascents but it was a great day. You in for AZ this year?
Carl Spackler
Apr 16, 12 16:00
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>>until mile 50-51 then my legs said "I'm done"
That's when you take a page from Jens and say "shut up legs!"
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prattzc
Apr 16, 12 17:06
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Yep, in for the gcg memorial distance. I will be dfl, but I'm in.
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tri_yoda
Apr 16, 12 17:41
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Now that you have all finished
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b2IvgpgNk8
mks75
Apr 17, 12 8:45
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