Steve does a great job taking event photos. Does it for his love of photography and sport. Some nice shots of people suffering through the 14 mile WINDY Willow Metro Park Spring Time Trial.
find photos here:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/steve.balogh@sbcglobal.net/my_photos
Willow TT group is in the bottom right album.
-SD
(Elite Men Cat 1-2) **2 **(2) 237 PETZOLD Tom 28:52.59 MI +2.41 WOW! 2nd overall… average > 29Mph!
SuperDave,
Thanks for the link. Steve took some great pictures and a ton of them!
Shony,
Sorry to diminish Tom’s effort some small bit but the course was 2.2 miles per lap and the start and finish lines were separated by 100-200 yards but did not overlap, i.e., the last lap was short that 100-200 yard distance. The total distance was 6 laps or very close to 13.1 miles and not 14 miles.
Tom’s effort was nonetheless very impressive!
Such fun. I was lucky enough to get a 1 minute drafting penalty despite the photographic evidence that I took the requisite 2 meters to the side when I passed my 5 minute man, and a lap later he passed me back. Took my time from decent 29:24 to mediocre 30:24. Pretty frustrating that they put the 1,2 guys last and expect us to have a “clean” course with 130 people already out on the 2.3 mile loop. Oh well TTs aren’t my thing, track racing starts in 2 weeks with the summer crits kicing off Memorial Day.
Petzold is blazing fast. I’m pretty sure he’s done <50 minute 40 k, and broken 28 minutes on the willow course. He’s a machine on a bike and was a world class rower in his former life.
“Pretty frustrating that they put the 1,2 guys last and expect us to have a “clean” course with 130 people already out on the 2.3 mile loop.”
It makes zero sense to me to put the fastest guys last in a loop course like that. 29:24 is flying, great job- what were you riding?
I guess my 30:31 was mediocre as well.
Cullen
Hey Ben,
Good job on saturday. I'm bummed that I missed the race, but I was away the week of the registration deadline. It's just as well - I'm completely out of shape right now as my off season conditioning was not very good due to school. I also missed the first PATT since I was out of town. I'm looking forward to signing up as a Saddleman and participating in the PATT's this summer. How'd the first one go for you?
Jack
29:24 was about as fast as I can expect to go Cullen. I was a little disappointed with 6th as I’ve placed better with a slower time there, but to be relagated to 10th by a unnamed non-uscf race offical was a bit of a bummer.
10th was mediocre, I’ll take a 30:24 if that was as fast as I could go on the day. It wasn’t I could go 60 seconds faster.
Jack–I was riding a Felt mostly, most of a pair of Zipp 999s and most of a Ritchey handlebar set up. Some stuff I had to borrow as I haven’t replaced everything that was stolen yet.
What’s the scoop on the Saddlemen TTs?
-SD
What the heck is this???
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/steve.balogh@sbcglobal.net/detail?.dir=71f5&.dnm=d128.jpg&.src=ph
That looks like me riding accross the yellow line because I can’t steer a bike in the aerobars.
-SD
I’m talking about the giant black felt.
“What’s the scoop on the Saddlemen TTs?”
I assume you’re asking about the PATT’s I mentioned? The cycling saddlemen have a monthly TT for members - 10 miles (out and back on hines drive). It covers the majority of the course used for the state champ and hines park TT, with a different start and turn-around. I did a couple last year and want to try to hit a few more this year to try and improve my fitness. Info is at www.lmb.org/saddle.
From an outside perspective, I really enjoyed the two I went to last year. Very low key environment, but provides me with more than adequate competition and also has the Timing Guys out there for some accurate times. I think the top guys are generally Allen Duncan and Ben Cline. Last year I know that Stephen McMahon went to at least one of them and finished first. It’s not a huge participant list, maybe 20 - 30 riders of all ability. You get a couple guys like Ben decked out in full aero equipment and gadgets all the way down to the more casual riders.
I think Ben Cline runs them this year, he can chime in with better info than me.
I think that’s the ultra-secret Felt talked about last June
http://forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?post=144137;search_string=search_string;#144137
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Sounds like a good time, perhaps just the thing for State TT and pursuit preparation.
I’ll check out the site and consider joining.
Thanks,
-SD
I hope not, it’s kinda, pretty, almost completely ugly.
I thought maybe it was a rebadged GT.
Superdave, say it isn’t so.
it isn’t so
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That bike is pretty sweet.Check out the handy work of the rider.Custom seat post fairing.
Cullen
Jack,
Its good to hear from you again. I wondered what happened to you. I had hopes of seeing you on the road again this year.
Sorry to hear cycling and conditioning got short shrift over the winter, but for a good reason. Hope that school went well.
When you try to put me in SuperDave’s class, I’m just a poser. Lots of show and not nearly as much go. I do seem to be ahead of last year at the same time so maybe I have made some improvement over last year.
As for the PATTs this year, the April PATT (Personal Achievement Time Trial) was rained out. It has been rescheduled for Saturday, May 7th (this Saturday!), at 9:00 AM at the east end of the soccer field that is just west of Telegraph Road on Hines Drive.
9:00 AM is the first start time, so don’t plan on showing up at 9:00 AM and doing very well, come earlier, warm up and get signed in/up whatever. There should be at least 15-20 participants and more if you guys decide to come. Its a lot of fun and good practice/training/fitness testing.
The May PATT is scheduled for Saturday, May 21, at 9:00 AM. The full PATT schedule is on the Saddlemen website at www.saddlemen.org.
SuperDave, if you know Julie Bellerose from U of M, she is coming but was hoping to hook up with someone else coming from the Ann Arbor area. Maybe you might want to give her a call. I can supply her email address if you PM me.
I hope you guys can make it. The more the merrier.
Okay, now everyone else can flame me for promoting the cycling club I belong to and personal regards to other posters rather than triathlon related topics.
I’m guilty, if I am charged by any jurisdiction.
Awesome, I should be there this sat. That’s great news to me that I didn’t miss the first one after all. Getting my butt kicked will motivate me to get back into shape.
“Julie Bellerose from U of M”
I think I know of Julie. I believe she is dating one of my friends here in the aero department. I commute to Ann Arbor from Trenton though, so I won’t be coming from Ann Arbor. I’ll talk to her, if she doesn’t have a way of getting out there I can do it.
"Okay, now everyone else can flame me for promoting the cycling club I belong to and personal regards to other posters rather than triathlon related topics.
I’m guilty, if I am charged by any jurisdiction."
Nonsense - I’m a trigeek all the way and the triathlon community needs more guys like you and the club to help us learn how to ride a bike 
I’ll hopefully see you saturday…