Hangover 5/17/2010

by schmalz

Bear-ly believable

The Bear has come and gone—and we can now set about determining the value of all the racers in the area (and those Canadian guys who, um, win) by checking their finish in what has become the Dow Jones of the New York cycling world.

At the aforementioned Bear, Aaron Fillion of Ride with Rendall won the Pro1/2/ race. Alejandra Madrinan of Comedy Central won the Pro/1/2/3 women’s race. Marcus Dalhoff of BH-Garneau won the cat 3 race. Kristine Wander of QCW Cycling/breakawaybikes.com won the women’s 3/4 race. Edward Angeli of TargetTraining won the master’s 40+ race. Mitch Jacaruso of NYVelocity won the cat 4 race in a sprint and then used HBO-style language in his celebration at the line. Details and requests for Mr Jacaruso to terminate his sandbagging surely to follow. All the results are here.

At the Giro Del Cielo results are incomplete, but sources say that Greg Donovan of Kissena won the 4/5 overall title with Jim Mernin of Kingpin 2nd overall. Sean Smith of Champion System looked to be in a close battle for the overall title with Jeffery Ingraham of Houlihan/Sanchez-Lokey. Jennifer Gott was leading the cat 4 women’s race, and Deborah Leedale-Brown was leading the women’s cat 3 race. Check back here to see how it turns out—or just tell us if you won.

At the NJ Route 29 TT, Eneas Freyre of TargetTraining won the overall and the cat 1/2 title. Scot Willingham of Houlihan/Sanchez-Lokey won the men’s cat 3 race. Aleksey Urosov won the men’s cat 4 race. Bill Sasiela of Pure Energy racing won the men’s cat 5 race. Mathew Heitmann won the 35+ race. Jaimie Troy of CCC/Keltic Const/Zanes Cycles won the men’s 45+ race. Steve Lehman of Tri-state Velo won the men’s 55+ race. Jennifer May of CycleLife USA won the women’s race. Click here for results in a fetching Excel file.

Homepage photo courtesy of Velocity results.

59 Comments

Travis

i got great pix at Bear…Trying to get them posted is a different story with all the photo re-sizing requirements etc.

workin on it

Your Man On The Inside

at Giro Del Cielo. Some monster unattached rider sprinted his way to 2nd place.

eyeballer

(Belchertown Family Center 5K – Belchertown, MA)

Best name for a town. Ever.

Not a whole lot of post bear chit chat. Probably based on:

a) Fear the Jacaruso would inflict an obscenity laced tirade on our innocent ears.

and

b) CRCA NYC riders got shellacked by people who know how to race.

Amine Rivnut

Joao Correia on yesterday’s ToC crash…which group does he consider himself in?

“We had a little bit of bad luck in the end,” recalled Cervelo’s João Correia. “It was basically a criterium and most of us, especially the Europeans, are not used to riding a criterium at the end. It wasn’t fast enough, and couple of guys from some of the North American teams, were nervous, and then the crash happened and it kind of screwed everything up.”

Lance Armstrong's Missing Testicle

Seeing the Canadians win gave me soem bad flashbacks (either that or the LSD). I am pretty sure Avon’s Kissena guys won the race five times in a row with four different Canadians plus Billy Innes.

Sausage of Doom

The important question is. who did not show up because they heard there was going to be drug testing?

Schbalz

to begin with, who really cares? but, if it’s even true that some dopers didn’t show because there may’ve been testing, it just means that the system works–it very well may’ve been a clean race.

Your Mother Didn't

Your mother didn’t show up to bear mountain to pick you up after you was dropped on the first lap. Grease Ball

Dr Who

Let’s see…, couldn’t be Teejay Van Garderen…he’s at the Giro, or ToC…hmmmm. Pinotti?, nah…also at a different race, as is Ted King. Who does that leave?…oh my God, Edward Pickering is a doper?!

Goro Chainsuck

I think MQ photoshops! Test for that!

He cropped me out of my sprint finish win I tell ya

lee3

I havent seen or heard of many long road stages turning into a straight up crit at the end in europe. I’m familiar with long circuits after a road stage, but I can see how that format in Sacramento could be strange for Euro’s (but not Joao though).
Crits are stupid (IMO) I just dont get it. My theory is that crits were created by sideshow freak carnival barkers trying to earn a buck off of the sight of ensueing carnage. “step right up and see 100+ racing bicycles race into a tight corner at 30mph….”. Its a american thing – The euro dudes should probably ‘get up to speed’ on Crits if they come here to compete. I’ll admit, I loved the Owasco Crit, but hated seeing some dude get an asphalt facial scrub with that horrible sound of snapping carbon and metal in the background. That image still haunts me.
Joao should give his boys the heads up and show’em that Bahati / UHC situation that went bike viral not too long ago and then go out and buy shoulder pads!

Lorenzo Rivnut

crits are what you get when you can’t close roads and you want a spectator friendly event.

Lorenzo Compliant

happened with the Czech cowboy? Usually the rider that pulls out the win for Battenkill is chompin at the bit for Bear and usually gets a good result. No gas money?

Pp

Seriously if you are doping at bear mountain or any other local races then the last thing you should be worried about is getting caught by doping controls,

A case of serious mental illness is more likely and the men in white jackets will be coming for you,

I have always gone by the logic , if a man has too many dogs he is a doper, dog blood rules by the way

Amine Post

if a man is seen to be having too many dogs, he is an unemployed cdo bond salesman who is now walking dogs as a part time gig for the rich housewives of bankruptcy lawyers.

Johnnes Namath

I lived in Germany for a couple of years. Over there, they have semi-pro American football leagues. Their quality of play varies from lame, small town high school football, to mediocre Division III college football. Nevertheless, they had plenty of stooges juicing thinking that one day they would be playing in the NFL.

Point is, those German stooges are exactly like the morons racing state-side at any level who are doping.

Pp

Heard from an ex pro I know in Europe that guys were actually trying dog blood and using a female testorone to mask it, personally no where intelligent enough to knows the in’s and out’s of it, but bloody scary stuff either way.

Anyone else heard of any crazy stuff like this ? Just need to know , no reason really

Oh dog walkers please describe the route you take and if there are any good bushes to hide in when you go past, oh time of day helps as well,

Will Schneider

you guys are cracking me up…this is some funny shit on this wall…seriously not bad, we should make a movie or something if this bike thing don’t work out. LOL

Pascal Richard

Ram’s spleen was all the rage…there are many swiss and luxemburger therapies not listed…

Bottle

Will Ferrell staring is “Upgrades of Glory.” The story of a doped to the gills cat 3, and NYC dog walker trying to go big time.

Ernesto Skidmark

Two hour show provided all of 15 seconds of video (finishing sprint) due to weather.

pj

it’s actually pretty popular.
once I when i lived in Sweden I unexpectedly came across a game. The kicker had played for the Giants in the 1980’s. The other players were a mix of expat Americans and locals. The level of play actually looked pretty decent except that ball came loose every time someone got tackled.

awaiting results

they were definitely there. if it wasn’t them, then who was that guy hanging out by the porta-john who asked me to pull me bib all the way down so he could watch me tinkle into his soda can? a well-meaning amateur anti-doping expert, perhaps.

Amine Post

I got called over to pee in a cup by a guy in a Ford Econovan with a big tinted bubble window and shag carpeting on the door. Seemed kind of weird, but he had Lynard Skynard blasting on the radio so it was cool. He gave me $5 afterwards. Does that seem normal?

Amine Post

who is sean smith?

is he sandbagging?

is he using chinese mouse epo?

does he make excessive horse-like sounds or have man boobs?

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