Hangover 9/14/2009

Wild cards for the road race include Diana Ziliute (Lithuania) who has had a sort of renaissance this year, as well as Italy's Noemi Cantele, solo breakaway artist Emma Pooley (Great Britain) or perhaps even up and coming American Evelyn Stevens!!!!!

thatwasyou?!?! That was some good coke...

I miss doing laps on the Studio 54 dance floor wearing buttcheek-free lycra bike shorts.

Tour of Holland in western jrz, ouch! (Hey-nahs)
Ossining (Pollacks)
Tarrytown (McCormack)
New Paltz Districts (Gully)
PerkinsHC (Loehner)
CitiTour (Anderson)
White Plains Natz Crit (Tomac)

I miss the old Branch Brook Course... the one with sweeping turns. So much better back then.

.....can be found here

http://www.teamorganicnyc.org/gallery_090913.html

if you remember the long course Grant's Tomb race. It only happened one year. The next year the race was snowed out. After that it was just the short course this currently used.

I miss the Moosic mountains race in PA. Extremely well organized and a good course.

thanks for this, it helps a lot. I had looked at the maps and for some reason it didn't make sense from memory of last years race. it does now.

Day 1 is a TT - 2.5 miles at about 4% uphill.

Day 2 - Is similar to Day 2 last year but in reverse. If you remember the long downhill at the start of day 2 last year... well you finish going up that this year. A long 5 miles big ring finishing climb. This year has the harder finish but you go down Susquehanna Turnpike so that is easier.

Day 3 this year - you go down to Round top and hit some rollers and then finish climbing Palenvale Mtn. Much harder than last years day 2. This is going to be an epic climb with great views and switchbacks.

I would say this year is harder but not by much. Longer finishing climbs each day.

is it not the same course as last year? harder? easier?

what happened to park ridge? great race.

DD would get a better p-1 turnout if he put up a little prize money.

Reads like most of the posters here are better at complaining, flaming and crying about their lack of funds then riding let alone racing bikes. If you cannot take a day off in September, bummer; last I looked sick days and personal days still count, but if you are too afraid to climb a hill outside of CP and 9W I guess you will find every excuse not be on a bike.

The new course loops are going to be really nice this year. Day 3 going up Pallenvale mtn is going to be one of the best climbs in the NE for a race. I agree however that at the end of the race season most people dont have the funds or the vacation time to take a 3 day race weekend. I raced last year and had a blast but once I saw that I had to take off Friday for the race this year I decided to skip it. If anyone has the days and funds to race this weekend I would recommend going. The towns (Hunter and Windham) are great with lots of place to eat and stay. They are probably the best race town venues on the calendar. Oh and next year the World Cup for Mtn biking will be in Windham the week before the World Championships. Windham has a great cycling scene...

from Jordan Jan

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Any Pictures from the Bear Mtn. races?

Cat 1 drinking... that's what I have been doing all year, perhaps that's my problem.

Favorite races that are no more:

Cambria Heights
Oyster Bayr
Orchard Beach
Grants Tomb when it was to 116th (2km) circuit...

any Handicap reverse cat race...peeps should do that Kissena thing this weekend!

back to dreamland...

...is univest. That was a fun race though.

Whateverhappend to Tour of Covered Bridges in PA???

4$$PH0LM

It's getting old seeing the same handful of guys on the score board week after week. Will someone with some fast old balls please stop racing p/1/2 and mix things up a bit. Please?

The fall Harriman race had, in the recent past, attracted large fields. So while the questions are valid, some of the answers (and suggestions) may not be.

I'm sick of racing. Ready for some cat 1 drinking.

Bear can't be in August. The park is too crowded in August to have a race. That's the same reason we have a race in May and not June.

Dad, you do know you can bring the wife and child to the race?
Your race will be no more than 3 hours. Your wife and child can go fishing or hiking. Or, leave them at home. Unless you are abandoning them the rest of the year you should be able to get a day off at the races.

Dieter, someone else was right on the money. You can't expect a working guy to take a three day weekend after labor day. Bosses don't understand that. What you should have done is allowed riders to do three days or just two.

logic FAIL!

Great idea to move the race one weekend before Univest.

Because I - along with the organizing committee (Catskill Mtn. Foundation) - want the race to grow and this was the next step. Friday is proving a tough one for folks to handle, but we've done our best to keep things tight and late in the day so people - at worst - have to take a 1/2 day.

Besides, GMSR has 4 days over a holiday when normal people are drinking beer...

Catskills is 3 days so Dieter can charge more and the hotels can double their revenue for the weekend. It was a great race last year - why did he have to change a good thing?

Hey Real Conner. I'm a depends wearing cat 1 and will still drop your 16 year old ass like a bad transmission. Figure that one out. Lolz

there are no other categories than p/1/2 the rest are either lozers or depends wearing lozers... lolz

sorry, i was referring to the p/1/2. i forgot about you other guys.

Currently there are 213 registered riders for Tour of Catskills, am I missing something here?? but 213 can hardly be called NON existent registration- quite on the contrary. For an end of season 3 day race with some challenging courses I think that number is quite good!

starts at 7am. Dad (below)should be able to do it.

Only 3 confirmed entries - obviously due to the late start time.

i'm doing this. hoping for a PB.

http://www.bikereg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=8354

Entries - I am always impressed with how many people show at CRCA races due to time...damn guys drive in from CT for those races. The model that a lot of these races forget is KIDS and WIVES and other things to do. I would have done Bear if it was a 7AM start....82 miles, done by 11, home by 12 - worth asking the wife. 10AM start - done by 2 - home by 3 -- tough one

Adding the Friday stage has gotta hurt Catskills - people w day jobs don't come back from August and start taking 3 day weekends in Sept.

http://www.bikereg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=8384

I might agree. However, a lot of guys will do 4 race a week. Club or PP, PP, Floyd, out of town. That much sobriety can really get you down.

season ends when there are no more races worth peaking fer, and no money to ern...

used to be some crits in Carolinas and FLO-Rida

Connor Sallee's ween will get huge

TTs suck

It seems that most are burned out, broke, broken, or want to end the season unbroken.

if there was a catskills crit i'd top ten it guaranteed... lolz

http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/assistant/editorial_1252.shtm

you've clearly never been to a competitive knitting event. talk about throwing elbows. know what it's like getting a neighbor's knitting needle jabbed in your eye just as you're about to make the final cross stitch? those old ladies make the fbf hoodlums look like pussycats.

That's easy... the road season is over. Either race CX or start doing the weekly Spoon-shuffle. That's or do what I do... start drinking heavily.

it boggles the feldheimer's mind that so many people think the solution to low pre-reg is to stay home and knit--instead of registering. catch 22. or a snake eating its own head. or something.

rio? no, catch kissena? although reg looks low for that too...

also univest. tired.

ok, so we've blamed low bear registration on univest. what's the reason for non-existent catskills pre-reg?

Let's talk about how awesome Champion and Mengoni are! Best teams in NYC for sure.

+1

i blame aspholm

i'm not saying it wasn't hard or competitive... the course is brutal and as long as a few strong guys are there, it's going to be a hard race to do well in. i just think that with such an awesome course, it's a shame for the race to be small and basically uninteresting. personally i think it would be far cooler to have a field of 100 and hopefully see some new faces up in the mix rather than a field of 40 with the usual suspects running away with it and leaving the field with little or no chance of getting back into the race after the handful of heavy hitters go up the road.

Impressive to watch a local guy (Zmolik) televised attacking and finishing Univest's road race so strong.

Burrows finished in top 10 at Criterium. Solid ride for him.

Congrats to Empire team on some solid rides at Univest. It was fun to watch.

yeah, getting dropped in the first 10 minutes of a race is really boring.

the rest were bored, would have rather spent the afternoon reading ralpha blogs.

if it wasn't so competitive why did only 17 people finish out of 40 starters?

that's a good point, actually. if the bigger cat 1 teams are all going to be out getting their asses eusticed by the ukrainians, then bear could be a great opportunity for up-and-coming cat 3's to prove themselves against some a smaller field of 1's and 2's on a demanding course.

i hear you on bear 1-2 not being so competitive due to univest. i figured rather than sandbag it and be bored in the field, i'll stay at home and get caught up on some some knitting. made me a nice ween hammock. mad skills forreals, yo.

While Bear is a mainstay on the calendar, CRCA should seriously consider moving the date to August or eliminating the later season race altogether. Otherwise, just make it a lower category race and put the 3's with the P/1/2 field. Make em suffer.

-Entitled Cat 0

obviously there are only so many weekends, but the fall bear mtn will be a total non-event in the 1-2 field as long as it continues to go up against univest.

empire not as successful at bear

Anyone noticed nice riding of Empitre at Univest? Solid TTT, 4 guyys finished the road race with Zmolik taking 18th winning the main 'field' sprint. They were 9th out of 30 teams and one of them (Barrows?) got top ten in the crit. Good to see local guys riding well in a big race.

Thanks for the results Will S.

PS - You should report like the top 15 if you want to mask the fact that you are self promoting. Way to go on the 12th place.

What happened to Mengoni, to their star ringer Diaz?

RALPHA!

you guys can give NYCVelo all the Sh*t you want, that CX party was fun on Sat

http://www.road-results.com/?n=results&sn=ds

1 10 Mark Alden 1319 201 CRCA/Blue Ribbon-Translation.com
2 9 Max Lippolis 126915 223 TARGETRAINING/ FASTAR
3 8 David Taylor 172065 243 CRCA/Blue Ribbon-Translations.com
4 7 Eutimio Quintero 193174 234 CRCA/ Foundation
5 6 Troy Kimball 118576 219 Westwood Velo
6 5 Mark Pohndorf 237877 252 Colavita Racing Inc.
7 4 Kurt Gustafsson 14451 211 CRCA / AXIS
8 0 Todd Cassan 206 Westwood Velo
9 2 Geoffrey Bickford 47068 250 CRCA/Axis
10 1 Leigh Sorrells 48161 242 Fioradifrutta/Masters
11 0 Robert Lattanzi 157989 221 Westwood Velo
12 0 Will Schneider 106752 241 VO2MAXOUT.COM Training Systems

http://www.usacycling.org/results/index.php?permit=2009-2119

Blueberry Circuit Race Hammonton NJ Race Results are:

1. Mike Jenks - Heart House
2. Stephan P. Dioslaki Team Metra/Wendys/Cycles 54
3. Mike Rosenhaus - Northeast
4. Jura DeAlmeida - Team Metra/Wendys/Cycles 54
5. Dave Martin - Northeast
6. Nikolai Masluk - Team Metra/Wendys/Cycles 54
7. Larry Detris - Cycledrome
8. Gregory Leach - Team Metra/Wendys/Cycles 54

Wow....Looks like Metra cleaned up on this one!

i don't know why cham sys go big pro race!!!
mengoni did not dope this week

That kinda outburst combined with those guns, must be roids.

Solid results but no sandbagger on the road or Mt Bike. Mt Bikers seem to excel in long hilly races so no surprise. Nice win Sun.

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he ain't no ODB!
nigga pleez!

I checked the link, since the sirens suggested this guy must have won like 5+ races this year and hasnt upgraded. What do I find? A couple of second place finishes in tough races before Bear on Sun. Some solid Mtn bike racing to give the guy a great base, and a few results this year, finishing with Bear on a great win. Congrats to Danny - worked hard, and it paid off with his first ever big race win - winning Cat 5 at Spring Series 2 loop jerk fest doesnt count in my book. Yes, time to upgrade for 2010, but not a minute too soon in my opinion! Good job.

DANNY HABIG WE'RE ON TO YOU
http://www.usacycling.org/results/?compid=259066