Hopeful Friday 7/6/2007

by Andy Shen

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Maltese Results!, for local team bragging rights. And we christen the 4 race the NYVC world championships. If you’re frozen out of the invitational, go support Charlie at Master’s Day at Prospect.

Courtesy of Velocity Results




Men 1/2/3                                       76 Starters                                   70K         Team Points
1      2    Jared          Bunde                GS Mengoni                                    1:31:21     100
2      12   Adam           Alexander            CRCA/Foundation                               st          85
3      72   Eric           Brownell             Bicycling Magazine                            st          72
4      61   Jermaine       Burrowes             Team United Homes                             st          62
5      52   Guy            East                 CRCA/Sakonnet Technology U25                  st          54
6      103  Alejandro      Guzman               CRCA/Empire CyclingTeam                       st          48
7      82   Franklin       Burgos               Champion System/Cycles Gladiator              st          42
8      105  Justin         Brown                CRCA/Empire Cycling Team                      st          36
9      21   Mark           Alden                CRCA/Blue Ribbon-Translations.com             st          32
10     73   Joao           Correia              Bicycling Magazine                            st          28
11     94   Matthew        Loftus               CRCA/Bandit Racing                            st          24
12     53   Johnny         Hayes                CRCA/Sakonnet Technology U25                  st          21
13     84   Blake          Longacre             Champion System/Cycles Gladiator              st          18
14     25   Pascal         Sauvayre             CRCA/Blue Ribbon-Translations.com             st          15
15     34   Piers          North                CRCA/Princeton Review                         st          13
16     112  Ted            Neu                  CRCA/Sid's-Cannondale                         st          11
17     102  Ken            Harris               CRCA/Empire Cycling Team                      at :10      9
18     5    Amauri         Perez                GS Mengoni                                    :51         8
19     62   Horace         Burrowes             Team United Homes                             st          7
20     92   Jeff           King                 CRCA/Bandit Racing                            st          6
21     132  Daniel         Estevez              Hot Tubes                                     st
22     31   Anthony        Lowe                 CRCA/Princeton Review                         st
23     41   Christopher    Uglietta             CRCA/Jonathan Adler Racing                    st
24     13   Steve          Hylton               CRCA/Foundation                               st
25     91   Matthew        Howard               CRCA/Bandit Racing                            st
26     134  Gavin          Mannion              Hot Tubes                                     st
27     111  Chris          Loudon               CRCA/Sid's-Cannondale                         st
28     104  Euri           Madera               CRCA/Empire Cycling Team                      st
29     3    Wilson         Vasquez              GS Mengoni                                    st
30     64   Juan Carlos    Almonte              Team United Homes                             st
31     43   Andy           Collins              CRCA/Jonathan Adler Racing                    st
32     125  Connor         Sallee               CRCAJrDev/Orbea                               st
33     11   Igor           Misicki              CRCA/Foundation                               st
34     131  Nate           Brown                Hot Tubes                                     st
35     144  Rufus          Pichler              Kissena Cycling Club                          st
36     55   Matthew        Sherwin              CRCA/Sakonnet Technology U25                  st
37     142  Lenny          Katz                 Kissena Cycling Club                          st
38     123  Evan           Cooper               CRCAJrDev/Orbea                               st
39     12   Adam           Alexander            CRCA/Foundation                               st
40     81   Josh           Friedman             Champion System/Cycles Gladiator              st
41     101  Michael        Margarite            CRCA/Empire Cycling Team                      st
42     14   Bob            Makofsky             CRCA/Foundation                               st
43     145  Keith          Snyder               Kissena Cycling Club                          st
44     151  David          Glick                OrganicAthlete p/b VegNews Magazine           st
45     33   Stephen        Harvey               CRCA/Princeton Review                         st
46     65   Glenroy        Griffen              Team United Homes                             st
47     155  Akira          Wong                 OrganicAthlete p/b VegNews Magazine           st
48     152  Benjamin       Lyon                 OrganicAthlete p/b VegNews Magazine           st
49     124  Graham         Lang                 CRCAJrDev/Orbea                               st
50     95   Ryan           Tie                  CRCA/Bandit Racing                            st
51     74   Fernando       Ferreira             Bicycling Magazine                            st
52     115  Anthony        Canger               CRCA/Sid's-Cannondale                         st
53     54   Chris          Kuhl                 CRCA/Sakonnet Technology U25                  st
54     85   Jorma          Mueller              Champion System/Cycles Gladiator              st
55     23   Eddie          Espitia              CRCA/Blue Ribbon-Translations.com             st
56     51   Robbie         Giannini             CRCA/Sakonnet Technology U25                  st
57     75   Nicholas       Ramey                Bicycling Magazine                            st
58     141  Brandon        Lee                  Kissena Cycling Club                          st
59     143  Albert         Pedemonte Pica       Kissena Cycling Club                          st
60     1    Rosevelt       Marte                GS Mengoni                                    st
61     153  Bradley        Saul                 OrganicAthlete p/b VegNews Magazine           st
62     71   Craig          Abrams               Bicycling Magazine                            st
63     35   George         Suter                CRCA/Princeton Review                         st
64     44   Antony         Slokar               CRCA/Jonathan Adler Racing                    st
65     22   David          Taylor               CRCA/Blue Ribbon-Translations.com             st
66     32   Roger          Friedman             CRCA/Princeton Review                         st
DQ     83   Scott          Snyder               Champion System/Cycles Gladiator


Team Classification
1                          GS Mengoni                                                         108
2                          Bicycling Magazine                                                 100
3                          CRCA/Empire Cycling Team                                           93
4                          CRCA/Foundation                                                    85
5                          CRCA/Sakonnet Technology U25                                       75
6                          Team United Homes                                                  69
7                          Champion System/Cycles Gladiator                                   60
8                          CRCA/Blue Ribbon-Translations.com                                  47
9                          CRCA/Bandit Racing                                                 30
10                         CRCA/Princeton Review                                              13
11                         CRCA/Sid's-Cannondale                                              11




Men 4                                           82 Starters                                   60K
1      276  Scott          Wisenbaker           CRCA/Foundation                               1:26:00
2      259  Hebert         Quintero             TEAM FITNESS MISSION/ALLWOOD BICYCLES         st
3      244  John           Landino              Westwood Velo-Trade Manage Racing             st
4      223  Bladdymir      Coronel              Westwood Velo-Trade Manage Racing             st
5      215  Michael        Wasserman            CRCA/Merrill Lynch-Hincapie Sports            st
6      246  Stephen        Lindholm             CRCA/Sanchez-Metro                            st
7      222  Timothy        Claudio              CRCA/                                         st
8      248  Tom            Luther               NorEast Cycling                               st
9      211  Aleksander     Betko                CRCA/Blue Ribbon-Translations.com             st
10     269  Vinicius       Tavares                                                            st
11     214  David E.       Burns                CRCA/Jonathan Adler Racing                    st
12     224  Adam           Duncan               CRCA Merrill Lynch-Hincapie Sportswear        st
13     206  Andrew         Babaian              CRCA/Avenue A Razorfish                       st
14     226  Gregoire       Faber                Setanta                                       st
15     228  Brad           Foster               CRCA/SouthAfrica.net                          st
16     257  Bertil         Petersson            CRCA/Avenue A-RazorFish                       st
17     272  Douglas        Von Bushberger       CRCA/OrganicAthlete                           st
18     266  Michael        Sambrano             Main Line Cycling Club                        st
19     217  David          Carr                 CRCA/Organic Athlete                          st
20     229  Steven         Fritz                CRCA/Avenue A Razorfish                       st
21     209  Gary           Bell                 Kissena                                       st
22     256  Radames        Parissi              TEAM FITNESS MISSION/ALLWOOD BICYCLES         st
23     203  Peter          Alford               CRCA/Sids-cannondale                          st
24     279  Edward         Zimmermann           The Princeton Review - Thinkracing            st
25     242  Chris          Karaboulis           CRCA/Sid's-Cannondale                         st
26     218  Chad           Casselman            NY Velocity/CRCA                              st
27     212  Todd           Brilliant            CRCA/Setanta                                  st
28     230  Jaime          Garcia               CRCA/Merril Lynch-Hincapie Sportswear         st
29     254  Peter          Ognibene             GS Park Ridge                                 st
30     227  Chris          Forsyth              CRCA/Setanta                                  st
31     213  John           Bundy                CRCA / Team NYVelocity                        st
32     264  Arpad          Romandy              CRCA/Foundation                               st
33     204  James          Kern                 CRCA/DKNY-Signature Cycles                    st
34     205  Eduardo        Atehortua            Cafeteros Cycling Club                        st
35     200  Marc           Adam                 Champion Systems                              st
36     241  Ben            Hughes               CRCA/Merrill Lynch-Hincapie Sports            st
37     243  Mark           Lahuec                                                             st
38     221  Greg           Choat                CRCA/ SouthAfrica.net                         st
39     261  David          Regen                CRCA/Organic Athlete                          st
40     245  Tom            Laskey               CRCA/Setanta                                  st
41     260  Joseph         Reagan               NorEast Cycling                               st
42     231  Brian          Gatens               CRCA/Organic Athlete                          st
43     240  Eric           Hollingsworth        CRCA-Merrill Lynch                            st
44     208  Michael        Beckerman            CRCA/NY Velocity                              st
45     245  Tom            Laskey               CRCA/Setanta                                  st
46     210  Charles        Berckmann            Merrill Lynch                                 st
47     271  Niko           Triantafillou        CRCA/Avenue A Razorfish Cycling               st
48     263  Matt           Rivera               CRCA/Setanta                                  st
49     262  Michael        Repka                CRCA/OrganicAthlete                           st
50     273  Kansas         Waugh                CRCA/Jonathan Adler Racing                    st
51     201  Chris          Agostino             Sotheby's / Strictly Bicycles Racing          st
52     238  Paul           Gerber               CRCA/OrganicAthlete                           st
53     277  Richard        Wolf                 CRCA/Foundation                               st
54     251  Todd           Mcloughlin           Kissena                                       st
55     255  Masahiro       Ogyu                 CRCA                                          st
56     232  George         Gilliland            CRCA                                          st
57     270  William        Tonkin               CRCA/Foundation                               st
58     249  George         Mastrogiannis        CRCA/Sanchez-Metro                            st
59     202  Reed           Albergotti           CRCA/Setanta                                  st
60     275  Christophe     Wilkes               CRCA/Blue Ribbon-Translations.com             st
61     236  Bob            Guatelli             CRCA/Sanchez-Metro                            st
62     253  Dan            Oates                CRCA/Setanta                                  st
63     252  Will           Alvarado             GOTHAM/TOGA                                   st
64     234  Paul           Goldman              CRCA/Avenue A Razorfish                       at 1:23
65     219  Stephen        Chang                CRCA/SanchezMetro                             st
66     225  Andrew         Elder                CRCA/Sid's-Cannondale                         st
67     207  Jack           Baranski             CRCA/OrganicAthlete                           st




Women 3                                          16 Starters                                  40K
1      324  Cecelia        Pleva                CRCA/Radical Media                            1:02:34
2      330  Liz            Seward               CRCA/Third Nature                             st
3      301  Martha         Bush                 CRCA/Sanchez-Metro                            st
4      317  Elena          Leznik               CRCA/Radical Media                            st
5      336  Caitlin        McVarish                                                           st
6      325  Ashley         Prine                CRCA/Radical Media                            st
7      319  Cindy          Ma                   CRCA/Sanchez Metro                            st
8      332  Karen          Ulrich               CRCA/Comedy Central-Sids                      st
9      323  Edie           Perkins              Kissena Cycling Club                          st
10     327  Catie          Richards             CRCA/Centerbridge                             st
11     320  Nanci          Modica               Radical Media                                 st
12     307  Kendall        Dwyer                CRCA/Avenue A Razorfish                       st
13     309  Shannon        Fitzgerald           Auburn Flyers                                 st
14     308  Jaimie         Epstein              CRCA/Radical Media                            st
15     316  Jennifer       La Plante            Radical Media/CRCA                            st



Women 4                                         16 Starters                                   40K
1      335  Dominique      Hall                 Major Taylor                                  1:02:34
2      300  Erica          Adelberg             CRCA/Radical Media                            st
3      306  Jennifer       Curtis               Avenue A/Razorfish Cycling                    st
4      310  Lisa           Force                CRCA/NYVELOCITY                               st
5      333  Andrea         Urist                CRCA/Third Nature                             st
6      304  Colleen        Conway               CRCA/OrganicAthlete                           st
7      337  Kat            Lamerton                                                           st
8      311  Caroline       Gaynor               CRCA/Sanchez-Metro                            st
9      318  Alison         Lonshein             CRCA/Third Nature                             st
10     329  Kathleen       Rucker               Unattached                                    st
11     302  Stephanie      Busloff              CRCA/DKNY-Signature Cycles                    st
12     328  Katherine      Ross                 Unattached                                    st
13     313  Cassie         Hayes                NYVelocity/CRCA                               st
14     305  Meg            Cortright            CRCA / Avenue A|Razorfish                     at 9:56

60 Comments

DHR

I too am freaked out by the thigh high support hose he is apparently wearing, along with the cap worn backwards. He does earn Euro points for wearing white shoes. Do Brits really count as Euro, since they’re not continental, and they don’t use the Euro currency?

I wonder if the support hose have lacy tops…I can’t believe I just typed that.

mikem

…far more troubling is that millar seems to have taken to warming up in his wife’s pantyhose. let’s please make sure that this one doesn’t catch on.

Eugene

“that Charlie I takes over reporting CRCA race results…”

I have the same dream about people getting personally involved in their own club activities, perhaps in an attempt to contribute to their community.

Anonymous

But that means I would have to do some work myself. That would take effort. I rather you do it.

Anonymous

Master’s Day At Prospect Park
July 7, 2007
Brooklyn, NY

Masters 35+ / 45+ Handicap
44 miles
89 starters

1. Mark Brinken (CRCA/ReMax)
2. Patrick Mcnamara (Fiordifrutta)
3. Richard Gonzalez (CRCA/Global Locate)
4. David Sommerville (CCCC/Anthem)
5. Ray Diaz (TargetTraining)
6. Chris Dimatt0 (Bethel)
7. Will Schneider (GS Gotham)
8. Chris Castaldi (Deno’s Wonder Wheel)
9. Juan Barroso (GS Gotham)
10. James Hines (Kissena)

Brief Race Report: The second annual Master’s Day at Prospect Park was again run as a handicap race with the Masters 45+ field starting 2 minutes ahead of the Masters 35+ field. Last year’s race saw the lead 45+ breakaway caught on the final lap so the Masters 35+ riders were determined to not cut it so close this year. On the very first lap the Masters 35+ riders gained almost 30 second and if that pace continued the 45+ field would be absorbed quickly. The 45+ field would not go down without a fight thanks to the strong efforts of Geoff Bickford (CRCA/Axis), Chuck Damsky (BVF) and Ken Hochman (Deno’s Wonder Wheel) who kept the 35+ riders from only gaining 10-15 seconds per lap during the middle laps. Back in the 35+ field, Curt Davis (Fiordifrutta) led a 5 rider chase of the 45+ field with 7 laps to go causing the gap to drop to under a minute for the first time. The 5 riders were caught by the 35+ field two laps later but the damage was done – the 45+ field was now in sight and with 4 laps to go the 35+ field caught the 45+ field. The final 3 laps of the race saw small groups attacking off the front including one promising move powered by Todd Cassan (Westwood Velo) but the motivated field brought back all attackers and as the field received the bell everybody was together. In the final sprint it was Mark Brinken (CRCA/ReMax) coming around last year’s third place finisher Patrick Mcnamara (Fiordifrutta) for the win. Richard Gonzalez (CRCA/Global Locate) rounded out the podium for third. Ray Diaz (TargetTraining) was the first 45+ rider in fifth place.

Category 5
17 miles
24 starters

1. Russel Cadogan (CRCA/Sid’s)
2. Michael Bahar (Unatt)
3. Miguel Flores (Unatt)
4. Ricardo Sanchez (Orange County BC)
5. Michael Tahtabai (Kissena)

I would like to personally thank all the officials, pace drivers, registration volunteers, marshals and Reid on the finish camera. Riders – next time you see these people also offer a quick “thank you” and let them know you appreciate all their hard work.

Charlie Issendorf
Race Director
Kissena Cycling Club

jft

Nice race put on by my former club. Three corners per lap, one of which is very high speed, but the road is wide.

The start/finish stretch is long and straight, then there’s a 90 degree right into a shallow downhill, then another right at the bottom. The road is wide so it’s not as hectic as it sounds. Then a bending road/backstretch into an uphill with corner at the top back to the finish.

There can be severe sunglare right in the last corner in races late in the day, but the corner is relatively slow so it’s not a problem.

Oh, I see the masters race is a win and out. Not fun.

Anonymous

that Charlie I takes over reporting CRCA race results and they get posted the next day (or at least before the next race).

Anonymous

Any info on the course and atmosphere? Same day as Park Ridge NJ Classic but you actually get 50 miles of racing if you do 2 races instead of 10miles.

Orcutt

I’m sure the pace car incident was a result of the unbelievably complicated set of branching and intersecting routes for various fields in the RR. There was a near collision of two fields approaching a cross-roads on perpendicular streets.

Anonymous

..is not a “lame” course. It is not extremely challenging, but it still has it’s challenges. It is a good course it you do not have a lot of crit experience. The road leading up to the finish is in bad shape, so pre-ride the course and pick your line carefully. Stay on the outside on the hill and you can move up easily…it is very sketchy on the inside.

Anonymous

Ok I’m a little slow but I just noticed that the Toto’s move. Totally creeped out. Must be Andy’s doing.

jft

I was reacting (or overreacting) to the one of the best crit courses within 60 miles thing. It’s not – not enough corners.

The races there are nice promotions — riders should check it out.

Orcutt

I thought the crit course was OK too – but having people sprint for KOMs with no one at the top to record the result was not. Thanks for the update Alan.

Anonymous

you can get coke w/ real sugar here during passover. It has a yellow as opposed to white cap.
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Thank you jews!

Anonymous

The Iowa Farm lobby pushes for subsidies for corn, making corn syrup cheaper than sugar and our kids fatter..High Fructose Corn Syrup is bad I would take sugar any day and it’s our government when we stop subsidies for corn manufacturers will stop dumping High Fructose Corn Syrup in everything we buy. And then American cyclists can enjoy a Coke before a ride. Euro Coke tastes much bettor than US Coke

Anonymous

I actually thought that given the last-minute changes in 2006 the race went off without a big fuss. The course they used instead of the crit course was quite good.

Pappa Bear

Anyone know when this will be up on Bike Reg. Dont want to get closed out like the spring.

Alan Atwood

Had some issues out of Dean’s control, such as the city of Auburn tearing up his crit course 48 hours before the race weekend, and the lack of expected support from the local rotary who helped start the race.

This year the club is more involved and the crit course is back. Only 2-4 K/QOMs and 2 sprints for the road race (too many last year). Dean is one of those dedicated promoters who was really pissed about last year and hopes to get it right again this year.

I’ll be there; hope some of you can head up and support a fun event.

Alan

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Steve

The powers that be were definitely considering starting the Tour in Quebec I believe.. It is French after all. But transport, logistics, travel time and costs killed that idea. I guess the closest to the US it has started is Dublin, Ireland.

Anonymous

I do like the idea of starting the race in the U.S. I mean, it would suck in terms of jet lag and travel time, but these guys are pretty tough, and think what that would do for U.S. cycling.

Anonymous

is a fine race, but being the day before state champs it’s just not going to do that well. Good chance for some easy upgrade points.

DHR

I never said all calories from HFCS. That would be pretty boring. It is a concern how do you pack on 6000 calories a day, without resorting to all junk.

An interesting prologue for future TdF, a start in Coney Island on July 4th with the cyclists competing with the hot dog eaters. Since the winning 66 nathans hot dogs represented something like 12,000 calories, they could establish a good base for the beginning of the grueling race. I imagine a stage with 12 minutes of all out eating, followed by a 8km time trial. That would be spectacular!

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for a person of the same weight, a 2500 calorie/day diet has to be different than a 6000 calorie/day.

The lower cal diet should have a much higher percentage of fiber. And the higher calorie diet can have a lower percentage of unprocessed foods, protein and fats.

Think about it. Or try to eat 6000 calories day, while exercising enough to lose weight, witht same amount of fiber and uncooked veggies as in a regular diet. You are going to be in some discomfort.

JFG

I notices alot of well run races (prize money not considered) are having low turn outs this time of year. My feeling is that most of us racers are cooked come July. I started racing back in March (Bethel and have raced at least 2 weekends a months since. Too bad for the races this time of year… Look at Tokeneke, Poughkeepsie Crit and Doc Reilly – poor preregs. It must have somthing to do with us all being tired this time of the year?

290

I’ll bet that in England coke doesn’t use Fructose Corn Syrup, but simply sugar. In any case, we are silly for having this discussion.

Coke tastes good after a nice ride.

Anonymous

You’re right, get all your daily calories from High fructose corn syrup and then take a multi vitamin and your all set. My bad.

Anonymous

Only 100 riders total registered. 34 Cat 4’s. They are offering best prize money of all regional races, so maybe it’s not about the money. It’s a well run race with a good course. Maybe it’s just bad timing,coming a week after Fitchburg.

DHR

your caloric needs are not connected to your vitamin needs, other than that you should be getting them both from your foods. So as long as they consume enough foods to meet their vitamin needs, any calories on top of that can be as empty as they want them to be. If all they ate were foods that were high in vitamins, they would accumulate a surplus over what they need to function. Since excess vitamins if they’re water-soluble will just be expelled by the body there is no harm (just extra stuff in the pee), or if fat soluble they may accumulate in the liver and potentially cause harm.

Diabetes Council of America

Its not the total calories – the point of good nutrition, especially for someone about to degrade the health of their body, is to maximize the nutrition of the calories you are taking in – that is, get as many vitamins etc… with your 6000 calories.

jft

Nice promotion of the races at New Britain, but it’s a lame course. A good crit course should have multiple corners. New Britain has one real corner.

The course in Walnut Hill Park is like Central Park on downers.

Participants can have fun, and if you want to race and can’t do Prospect or Maltese, go and see it.

DHR

160 calories of good old american stimulating beverages. Remeber these guys are shortly going to be buring 6000 calories a day. In order to keep themselves fueled up for that they need to stuff themselves with as many calories as possible. HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) is calorically dense, and as a liquid doesn’t actually make you feel full like eating real food. Coke is one of the things that fuels the peleton. Would you rather them eating sticks of butter for their caloric needs?

The Storm

New Britain is one of (in my opinion) the best crit courses within 60 miles of us…..no real sharp corners….one small incline to breakaway on….and one downhill…..spint is on a flat with slight right bend 300m before the finish line…..

race is run pretty damn well too!!

see u guys there

Johnny nutrition

I love that these world class athletes (Karpets shown) drink coke for breakfast… before the most grueling event and important event (in most) of their lives. 160 calories devoid of any nutrition…

Potty

My sister is in London over the weekend and thought that it would be too much trouble to go to the prologue. How did she ever get this way. She would rather stroll around outside Wimbledon with no hope of getting in. Some people have so little perspective in life. Strawberries and cream vs Tdf prologue. How could she?

Steve

My old team in the UK, Addiscombe CC, is based around South London which happens to be where many of the teams are staying. Somehow they are managing to be leading some of the teams on training rides around local club routes. Acting as guides you might say, and in return being allowed to photograph away. Visit this link for some training photos: http://www.addiscombe.org/members/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4589

and then browse the general forum to read a bit more of their hysteria. Lucky sods.

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