Photo courtesy Anthony Skorochod of Cycling Captured.
The first weekend of road racing in the New York area has come and gone, and now it’s up to us to decipher the information put forth by the internet and find out who can hold their head high this morning and tell their co-workers to chew sand because they were the mightiest of all over the weekend.
At the CRCA club race, Pavel Gonda of BH-Garneau won the A race in a field sprint after the field caught Ken Harris of Adler and Dan Zmolik of AXA Equitable just before the finish line. Later in the day Gonda went on to win his collegiate race also. In the B race, Brian Collet of Houlihan-Lokey/Sanchez won, with Chris Leong of BH-Garneau second and NYvelocity’s Ben Cornish third.
In the delightfully reported Branchbrook series, Maurice Gamamho beat Wilson Vasquez of Mengoni in the men’s 35+ race. "Satisfaction" Jackson Wandres of Deno’s Wonder Wheel was at the top of a Deno’s 123 in the men’s 45+ race, followed by teammates Thomas Luzio and Chris Castaldi. Calan Farley of the Chester County Cycling Foundation won the men’s 4/5 race. In the Men’s 123 race, Jason Walters of Guardian Coaching won with Stephen Dioslaki of YSG racing second and David Freifelder of Westwood Velo third. Complete results are here.
At the roller races on Saturday night, Bobby Lea won the pro race with Jackie Simes taking the overall crown.
At Sunday’s Spring Series race, David Wiswell of Dave Jordan Coaching/Zephyr Graffiti won over Brian Breach of Mengoni in the race, David Taylor of Fuoriclasse Racing – Discover Chiropractic was third. Steve Marmo of Setanta beat Scot Savory of Adler for first place in the 3/4 race. Other results are forthcoming, you can check the Spring Series Twitter feed here.
No results are in from Bethel yet, so if you won there or know who did, please let us know.
Forget Punxsutawney Phil seeing his shadow, the true omen of Spring in NYC was seen in Central Park Sunday–the cigarette smoking bicycle race marshall.
AVD calls cat 5’s “masters of the universe”
1st – Tim Spence AXIS
2nd – ?
3rd – Jeff Cline AXIS
CRCA B Race —
Brian Collet (Houlihan-Lokey/Sanchez)
Chris Leong (BH/Garneau)
Ben Cornish (NYVelocity)
CRCA C Race —
Matt Vandivort (NYVelocity)
Darius Shekari/Teany wins Cat 4 in a bunch sprint.
Tron Witt/Adler finished 3rd in a breakaway of 3 guys in the 3/4 field.
Ann Marie Miller/HL Sanchez wins women’s field in a solo break away.
Thanks for the B race results.
Holy shit, Van Dunkadonk has a twitter feed?! He’s going from results within 6 months to results within 2 seconds. Well done.
http://www.carpediemracing.org/2010/01/2010-ronde-de-bethel.html
it’s AXA Equitable
Done and done
How much time did the 5s make on the 3/4s. Weak showing 3/4s
those 3 got away, and stayed away, way too easily. we suck
I was a non-chasing participant in Saturday morning’s race and I too am disgusted that we’re that lame (not as lame as actually spending time thinking about it, mind you.) I don’t consider it as much a lack of desire but a lack of organization. No one knew who was in the break (except for the teams who had riders in the break) and there were a lot of racers (biggest field I’ve seen in awhile)so it was tough to find friendly faces to go and put a chase together with.
Weird race….
I blame Shen. He should have been taking photos…not racing…
that’s kind of rude
I sure wish I was shooting. Anyone have a shot of Pavel winning???
here’s how to organize a chase: go to the front, and pedal faster than the field. brilliant!
i’m obsessively refreshing both the organic site and cycling reporter in an attempt to see pictures from this weekend. pretty sure i saw gina yesterday.
Which course are they racing at Branchbrook this year – the short loop or the full park w/ the u-turn at the top of the hill?
they are using the short cours
Is the NY Velocity guy that crashed himself in the sprint at SS ok?
self-crashing is no way to go through life, son.
j cline on axis look out globle
Off to a rip roaring start results posting wise. Unable to post 25 names in 3 days.
Results have been up on their website since early yesterday
My mistake. In the past they always posted the results or a link on their homepage.
AVD,
If I do not sign up for Twitter, can I not see the spring series results?
If you hang around for a while after the race you could see the results yourself. Chances are if you placed in the race, you would know it. If you were lower than 7th place, then the results aren’t going to help you.
if you placed you will know it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmCEQVcNp4s
if you placed lower than 7th and actually care about your result, you’re a fool. Same fool that will crash me for 23rd place instead of 25th. great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgrA3xqB4sI
the red hook crit is looking good this year. who’s racing. http://www.redhookcrit.com
no subteam names either. CRCA = lame.
stop the crca complaining…where are my pictures?
http://z.about.com/d/physics/1/0/R/0/-/-/AlbertEinsteinbike.jpg
Probably a bunch of dirty hipsters
and
Umm… Maybe people who didn’t race that week are interested in seeing the results and lap times if they were posted, Einstein.