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Will O’Donnell wins the 123 at Branch Brook, other field reports are sketchy. In the Spring Series, Rashad Guerra takes the win over Igor Misicki from a break that included, um, people – it looked like Gavi Epstein was there. Jeff Klein from Kreb’s wins the masters race.
In the 3/4 race George Gyarmathy wins the race in a field sprint over Tadeuz Marszalek, and just misses the wrath of schmalz’s 10th place sprint fury.
No Bethel reports – please help us out.
Tom Danielson totally wusses out and doesn’t sign up for the 123 in any area races.
FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Winner
Podium.
but I was wearing and Adler outfit
Sommerville racing looked pretty good. VERY windy as usual – came down to a field sprint. Results on http://www.sprinterdellacassa.com
didn’t recognize him
CRCA/Metro Sanchez’s Anne Marie Miller wins Women’s Race
CRCA/DKNY’s Joe Straub wins 3/4
CRCA/Sid’s Lattanzi wins Masters
CRCA/Sakonnett’s Badger 3rd in P-1-2-3
How were the field sizes in the 3/4 and Pro1-3? I love that course
What’s with the Adler hate?
I think it’s because they suck? Thats what I heard, and witnessed.
Hating on Adler is just to damn easy…
You would love to be on Adler, wouldn’t you?
from the pictures, after rashad, igor and gavi, looks like chris loudon, franklin burgos, eddy ceccolini, with another foundation in the break.
Of course he would.
Just shut up and ride!
or was he on Adler, but no longer?
we spell that “shup up and ride” around here
Did Ken Harris make his Adler debut this weekend?
Looks like Rashad needs some more fiber in his diet. That face is way painful.
Were you involved in any crashes?
I was adjacent to crashes though.
slow first lap, OK it was cold and the start was delayed.
2nd lap, riders attack downhill at the pool, field approaches Harlem Hill and squeeze levers and break uphill, chess players smile, “I can sit up now, I have a rider in the break with no chance of winning”. The rest of us either can’t won’t or enjoy…
3rd lap, breakaway has 30-45 seconds depending on which source…but you can still see them up the eastside so any fast lap should bring them back.
FF to last lap, all finally combine into some sort of effort for efforts sake, while others get in the way “blocking”.
Break stays and surprise Rash is fastest. Someone leads out sprint thru S turn at bottom of hill and gets a reality check on working too late, too hard, and too long of a sprint even with a CP 3,2,1 field.
Thanks to OA for photos.
There was a big Adler guy in the 1-2-3 riding OK, but everytime he got out of the saddle his wheels made some whoosh whoosh sound. Did not sound smooth. Sounded sketchy.
Badger on Sakonnet?
Does anyone know if the P/1/2 race still starts *after* Masters? The listed start times seem to indicate otherwise, but I don’t believe it.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E4D91630F934A35750C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
The most I’ve yet seen in one race. I saw one guy crash by himself. What the hell? It’s not that tricky of a course.
In Central Park
Whats with that? Also, no Empires or Mengonis in the break? So how many of the 4s that flock to the march and april races will be racing this summer? Seems to die down once the real racing begins…
No Empire in the race
THE INTERNET IS KILLING BICYCLE RACING
I was in the 2nd grade last time someone called me Rash.
“Sometimes you need to be an asshole and sit on the wheel of someone.”
– Steven De Jongh explains how team tactics made him sit behind Rabobank’s Sebastian Langeveld.
but the Spring Series races have to be the worst run races in the city. What a disaster.
Its the complete opposite experience. Organized, good vibes and good racing… plus you get results posted.
whoa, looks like Rashad hit the gym this winter. If he doesn’t kick your ass on the bike, he’ll kick it off the bike.
I’m just glad he beat foundation. those guys get paid $1k for a park race win. Rashad is a nice guy
Rashad is a good guy. What happened with Affinity?
why don’t we have a normal forum type area on this site, instead of always needed to argue in comments boxes
why are there no time stamps anymore? how can i refer to people’s anonymous posts now?
my time stamp: 4:37:01.4
i think that’s the point. but anyway a real forum system would maybe be a little more organized and manageable
bullshit, otherwise he could buy any break with that kind of money…lemme see, if I win I make $76, if I sell to Affinity, I can make hundreds more?
fn bunch of neo-suckers!
That’s got to be the dumbest thing if have read on this forum, and there are a lot of dumb comments on this forum.
What would motivate foundation to pay riders for results in an low-level amateur race?
I heard that too. Fdn is paying 1,000 for any race win. Including a CRCA race
do they have a team website. Who rides for them besides Igor and the other fast sprinter dude?
Paulie!
more pictures. I thought someone was going to take pictures of me. Thanks to OA for those great shots.
I heard Merrill Lynch pays out $1000 for every crash they cause.
is that on the bike or in the market?
3rd place in the P123 wasn’t Badger. It was Gavi Epstein from Sakonnet.
http://badger.enix.org/
Does he wear a helmet or does he rely on his poofy dreads?
How is he allowed to race without a helmet?
was that the running man or the robot … sick victory salute, either way, nice one
Lisban’s on Foundation.
1000 dollars for a win? JESUS that’s a lot.
the bethel 3/4 field was about 40-50 guys i believe, and the 123 field was about the same, perhaps a little less.
Did he win the rollerblading contest?
i just love that badger site!!!
so who exactly would be funding this rich payout? who is the BIG MONEY anon donor behind this team? Sounds like bull to me.
http://sprinterdellacasa.blogspot.com/2008/03/bethel-spring-series-ronde-de-bethel.html
12 Connor Sallee CRCA JrDev/Orbea 134
Connor Sallee 12th at Bethel 3/4 Race – that ain’t exactly going to get him “pro as sh*t” as he claims
hmm, 12th in the 3/4 is totally legit….for an assbag.
Nice Running Man salute, like McEwen!
Adler’s energy drink/beverage of choice for in-race hydration and post-race recovery:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/cross.php?id=/photos/2007/oct07/southampton072/1
Mengoni not making a break is no surprise. Who in Mengoni can get in a break? Wilson??? Pollo??? Wilson is a wheel sucker and Pollo can’t finish a simple park race if not any. All the good riders left Mengoni and Empire was not there leaving a few strong riders in a break and there was nothing the rest of the field can do about it, I saw it if my two eyes.
if a dude is out of shape does that make him a wheel sucker ? or if he is a sprinter, and is waiting for the TT dudes to hit him a dozen times before the line?
Wilson is not a wheel sucker
wheelsuckers often win races. motors who pull the field around with no apparent stategy usaually die
Wilson trained somewhere warm this season like Arizona or something? I think he has more miles than most riders right now. I think he raced there too.
n – Category 3,4
(not ranked)
Place
Name
Time
License
Bib
Team
1 George Gyarmathy 01:03:50 208425 GBSC
2 Tadeusz Marszalek 01:03:50 244093 Sommerville
3 Michael Prokopec 01:03:50 98692
4 Joseph Azze 01:03:50 222315 CRCA/Blue Ribbon
5 Stephen Lindholm 01:03:50 251043 CRCA/Sanchez Metro
6 Kevin Brubaker 01:03:50 239671 Affinity
7 David Carr 01:03:50 256699 CRCA/Setanta
7 Brian Wolff 01:03:50 92298 GBSC
Men – Masters 35+
(not ranked)
Place
Name
Time
License
Bib
Team
1 Jeffrey Cline 01:02:14 173946 Kreb/EECT
2 Mark Alden 01:02:14 1319 CRCA
3 Paul Carbonara 01:02:14 60376 CRCA/Axis
4 Timothy Spence 01:02:14 54575 Global Locate
5 Jose Collado 01:02:14 46644 Global Locate
Men – Pro – 2 – 3
Place
Name
Time
License
Bib
Team
1 Rashad Guerra 1:17:13 240370 Kissena
2 Igor Misicki 1:17:13 183978 CRCA/Foundation
3 John Tomlinson 1:17:13 46672 CRCA
4 Christopher Loudon 1:17:13 191280 CRCA/Sids Cannondale
5 Edward Ceccolini 1:17:13 54209 Campmor
6 Franklin Burgos 1:17:13 258520 CRCA/Championsystems
7 Martin Lechowicz 1:17:13 193405 CRCA/Foundation
8 Gavin Robertson 1:17:13 205328 CRCA/Foundation
9 Anthony Lowe 1:17:13 193990 CRCA/Team United
10 Will Schneider 1:17:13 106752 CRCA/Gotham
Men – Cat 5
2201-2500 Rank Points
Place
Name
Time
License
Bib
Team
1 Colin Prensky 00:33:00 274257 CRCA/Sanchez Metro
2 Samuel Schaeffer 00:33:00 268150
3 Patrick Dietz 00:33:00 252854 CRCA
4 Ron Schildge 00:33:00 266551 Cyclonauts
5 Rob Havemeyer 00:33:00 265412 Kreb/EECT
What does ‘not ranked mean’ and why?
The finish time for the 1/2/3 pack is off. The break finished a 1:17:13 but the pack would of been later? Who won the sprint?
because it’s stupid
Gavin Robertson won the field sprint and the field was probably about 10 seconds behind the break
Useless – finishing 75th of 100 can often get you better weighted points then 15th of 50 in a smaller race. Kind of a joke the system…
discuss
Mike Friedman: love child of Wilson “Big Mengoni” Vasquez and Bob Roll.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2008/mar08/hetvolk08/index.php?id=/photos/2008/mar08/hetvolk08/bettiniphoto_0023786_1_full
Huh?
was third.
for the record, i didn’t get 6th in the 3/4. not that it really matters but i ended up walking across the finish line with a broken helmet. i walk briskly but not THAT briskly.
I was not 3rd on Sunday. I wonder if Van Dunk will give me 3rd place money if I ask. It would be appropriate: I got a 5th or 7th place in a spring series race two years ago in pouring freezin rain, crossing the line in a group of about four guys after several laps away and they gave the place to someone who wasn’t in the group. I left the raec directly due to cold so I didn’t protest the result. So I got bubkis when I emailed him about it.
Hahahaha
We were getting so close to the break in the last couple miles but some guys in the field did not believe it.
I’m out of town Sunday so will email Van Dunk about the result which I hope will mean he won’t give you resistance if you try to get the money.
1:17:13 for 3+ race. 15:33 laps indicative of the cold weather perhaps, but I hope they can do better next week.
Why? And if you want a faster pace, why should “they” do it, how about you?
Means that there were not enough in the given category to give anyone ranking points. Like one cat 3 in a P/1/2/3 group. Doesn’t meet the minimum.
“but I hope they can do better next week”
Last time I checked, this was a road race, not a TT. Race the race and the guys around you, who cares what the time is? Would Rashad race a better race next week if he got second but the lap times were faster?
Rashad completely deserves respect for winning.
He would have won if the race was 12 min/lap avg or 17 min.
He is prepared to win, read the race, had no help in the break, has a good team controlling the field, and a great victory salute (hahaha).
But there is nothing wrong with hoping for “Pro, 1-3” racing that demands more than cat.5 TT speed. One slow lap to warmup maybe, but the entire race? With 100+ racers that makes shitty use of $2-3k entry fees!
Thats 1 hour 5 min 00 seconds for a 5 lap race…and you can thank me later when the fitness you gain helps in a race that you can upgrade.
Have fun! Play hard!
Peace!
😉
it’s worth some perspective – it was first race of the year for many people and below 30F at the start. Someone told me it was 25F. That’s not normal bike racing temperatures, and I’d expect the speed to be slow.
BTW 100+ riders? In what field?
Congrats on some strong early season racing. Won the Cat3 stage two valle of the sun and 2nd on Sunday. Great job! Keep in up
The good news is that it’s going to be even colder this Sunday.
saturday branchbrook – pouring rain
sunday spring series – ball freezing cold, plus one hour earlier.
I’t a long season. no thanks.
I cant wait till the weekend!!
Did the Wicked Fast Joseph Zaverdas race?
nope…Joe wasn’t there. He isn’t that fast either…sorry.
LOL, not that fast… yea ok…
sorry to break the news to you but he only won the 2007 Empire States Gold in the Road & Crit at 40 yrs old against all these young dudes…
FYI, in his 1st year of cycling (20+ yrs ago), he won the NY track kilo & came in 2nd in the sprints, against guys who had all these disc wheels & years of experience… he had a steel bike, carp wheels and NO track experience at all… he destroyed!
Oh, did I mention that he out-sprinted George Hincapie back then with ease and it’s just a hobby for him, imagine he took it cycling serious… 😉
tell us what you’ve done my son… lol