The first big race weekend is behind us and there’s acres of achievement to be disseminated, so let’s get right to it.
At Grant’s Tomb on Saturday in the Pro/1/2 race’ Brian Hill of Stan’s NoTubes / AXA Equitable was away from the gun with Tony Hall of Champion System p/b Stan’s NoTubes in a long battle of the tubeless, they were joined by three others later in the race and from that group the winner Joey Rosskopf of Team Type 1 – SANOFI emerged.
Mandy Marquardt of Penn State Lehigh Valley won the women’s Cat 1/2/3/4 race. Joseph Jacobs of Speedwell Racing won the cat 3 race from a break of three. John Malcolmson of Kissena won the cat 4 race in a field sprint.
Full results are here. Picture are here, here, here and here. If there are any galleries that I’m missing please add them in the comments below.
The Spring Series do-over race was Sunday, no results Tweeted as of this writing, but rumor has it that Scott Savory of Mengoni won the Pro/1/2/3 race. Info will eventually be here?
At the Ris Van Bethel on Sunday, Joey Rosskopf of Team Type 1 – SANOFI maintained his winning ways by winning the Pro/1/2/3 race. Hammean Walker of Major Taylor Iron Racing Racing Team won the cat 3/4 race. Nelson Macy of Danbury Cycling won the 45+race. Kimberly Edwards ofCVC/Subaru of New England won the women’s race. Unattached Alister Clarke won the cat 4 race, and Chris Budden of TargeTraining won the cat 5 race. Results are here. Pictures are here.
Don’t think Tony Hall could grow a beard despite living in Brooklyn. That’s Rego.
700+ pics from a bunch of different fields at bethel are posted on facebook –
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shoot me a msg for full size originals…
So in the SS overall 1/2 the races didn’t get any points, yet AvD still counted the 3/4 results towards the overall title?
They are at http://crca.shutterfly.com/
The pictures online have very low resolution. You want high resolution? e-mail me at cyclingclog [at] gmail.com
@ Victor. They started the race an hour late because once again they cant get there shit together to get the cars out of the way Its 30 degrees with wind chill of 10. Clearly not everyone was waiting about and heard those. It not like it was just one guy. Weak ass promoting and officiating.
Rego was in the first move, Hall in the second that stuck. Both moves were fully tubeless.
I won the race to Ess-a-bagel on Sunday morning. It was elbows bumping, legs pumping to get to the line first, and to the victor went the pickled herring.
Exciteable course:
http://app.strava.com/segments/1071286
The car parked on the back stretch after the short climb was annoying, but not terribly dangerous. The car parked after turn two was very dangerous – especially with the baracades around it.
That Grants Tomb course map looks, ahem, suggestive.
That was really cool how they moved the start of the 3 race to the other side of the memorial at the last minute.
10% of the field didn’t get the memo and missed the start because they were at the original start/finish where the 4s had just gone off in the previous race. When those guys jumped in a lap later they relegated them. Nice touch.
Did AvD go out to early last week? Not one kvetch about this week’s race. A half-a-kvetch, maybe. AvD, you can do better!
There were like 10 announcements about the Cat 3 staging area. Spread across 15-20 mins.
Do you think the GT promoter slowed down the removal of the cars on the course? They are at the mercy of the NYPD tow trucks to come and tow the cars away.
Although I am not a big NYPD fan but I am glad at least they managed to tow enough cars away to clear the course. I do wonder why people would still park their cars around the course knowing that their cars would be towed. I am sure signs were up long before the race day to inform the residents and drivers about the street closures. Why this didn’t happen last year? Did the organizers put some “extra money” to the NYPD for that to happen?
You are an idiot.
And they didn’t remove the curbs lining the road either – super dangerous.
And the lock on on of the port-a-johns didn’t work…..
Wow! What a bunch of f–king babies. HTFU guys.
I went to the wrong starting line too but something about the 100 guys lined up 20 meters to my left gave me the feeling that I was in the wrong place.
The race was fine.
Nicely put Gunthet. Too many whiners here.
Bunch of Yentas
Apparently it is ok for the promoter to be late by an hour but dq 10% of the field for not hearing their last minute changes causing them to be miss the start. Got it. Classy.
Are you suggesting schmalz would have finished 10% lower?
you could have finished 90% better.
I have an idea. Let’s increase the entry fees by $150 per event and we can give you adrenaline addicted narcissists a pager and send you updates about everything you might possibly learn if you just checked in periodically around the staging area before your race rather than trying to guess it from a far. This is bike racing. If you want to be pampered, go sign up for a sprint triathalon and throw on your mankini.
There were many announcements made prior NOT last minute.
Were you too busy holding you spot on the first row?
You are still an idiot.
Wanna clean my bike?
Knassy Groll…
so funny…
I forgot how to start a bike race…
Its not like they started, what 50 feet, from where you were standing?
Douchebag pussyfart of the year, so far…
Sure I’m not the smartest guy around and got confused by the start change. It’s a lie however that the new start was in sight of the original…it was at turn 3. MV’s video shows that clearly.
If a bunch of guys miss the start because the promoter changes things up, it’s not a big deal to give
them a lap and let the race decide the outcome.
Personally I like to get my results at the line. But I guess people like you would rather take some advantage on a techicality.
No problem. There is room for all kinds. In fact there is a whole industry towards the south end of the island that loves assclowns like you.