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CRCA Flanders Party was a blast – thanks CJ and Jed.
Comment of the day, Sunday, April 5, 2009:
Actually turns out I won!
By: Wheelsucker
Sun, 04/05/2009 – 17:24
First, really sorry to hear about Charlie and others going down hard today. Really hope you guys heal fast.
Also, probably should wait for someone else to post on my behalf, but hey, I’ve never won a race before, and it turns out that the guy who was registered as finishing the Sandy Hook TT in the 4/5’s a minute and twenty seconds in front of me was helped by the fact that he turned around before the turnaround point (http://www.pelotoneast.com/showthread.php?t=6673). He didn’t claim the win, by the way, it wasn’t his fault. The fact that he was a DNF just wasn’t caught initially by the officials who are apparently correcting the results. BTW — overall, this TT was extremely well run on a really difficult day — thanks to all of the organizers and officials!
So it turns out that I actually won the Sandy Hook 4/5’s TT. Now, I’ll admit from the outset, a lot of people see no point in separate category fields for TT’s and you may have a point. But since there was one, and I signed up for it and won it, I’m plenty happy. It’s my first “win” however you want to slice it. And FWIW I’m amazed and glad that my effort was enough to beat some really strong guys who also happened to be in my field, such as Rick Hall of TeaNY, who also podiumed (congrats to Rick on a great race in really tough conditions!).
Ok, so there’s a shameless tooting my own horn. And while I’m at it, many thanks to my coach Ken Lundgren, for his encouragement and advice leading up to this, as well as to David Jordan, who has helped me a lot from the beginning with TT techniques (and to the guys as the CCNS wind tunnel for their help in refining my position). Probably making too big a deal about this, but I happen to be someone who hasn’t yet won any race for all the work I’ve put into the sport, and so I’m taking what I can get. I’ve had terrific support from my teammates who have cheered me on and thanked me for leadouts and believed in me. Nice to have a tangible result early in the year!
David Carr, Setanta
Quick Step clearly knows how to ride a good race in Flanders
Baldwin has some cool shots of Flanders and Kuurne: http://www.baldwinchris1.blogspot.com/
Flanders party was off the chain!
so says fabian
Thor Hushovd was almost at the finish line when he crashed in Meerbeke. The Norwegian of the Cervélo TestTeam broke his wrist.
What’d he do for 30 minutes? http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fautres-sports.le10sport.com%2Fune-affaire-armstrong-_201865_a&sl=fr&tl=en&history_state0=
he was looking for some stylish post-race ralpha-wear to put on for les doping inspecteurs.
Post-race Ralpha wear is always a good idea.
Thor didn’t break any bones, reports bikeradar. Schmalz heart briefly goes aflutter.