2010 Crit Series

The 2010 Crit Series was put on by Team Tolero. Results and Pics.

Highlights:  Week 1 A Event: Kurt Garbe 2nd, Elliot Anderson 3rd and Bryan Schlegel 4th and Rick in 11th.

B Event Bryan 1st!, Elliot 5th  – last flight of Doogie’s Seven!

Week 6: 40 + Kurt Garbe 1st

April 1, 2010 · Filed Under Uncategorized

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Tucson Bike Classic

Report by Kurt Garbe:  A full Aggress team turned out for the TBC.  Rick had a brilliant weekend and take  2nd overall in the 65+ category.  Jim was solo too in Cat 5b race; he took 5th overall with a very solid showing.  I had a very lucky ride and finished 11 seconds out of first in 7th place in the Cat 3 TT.   The team worked brilliantly for me and I fought for a very dangerous 8th in the RR and 3rd in the circuit.  I finished tied for 5th in time overall, but got 6th as the 5th place finisher had a better time in the TT.  Neil had a very solid ride finished right behind me in 7th in GC, with Brent slotting in at 12th, 24 seconds back.  Leo was 1:13 down in GC and worked hard to help advance me.  Jeremy and Bryan both worked hard for the team; Y is off the health mark, but did what he could to advance the team.  Thanks to Elliot for the effort, but he would tear off another deraileur and not start the road race.

 

Thanks to Brian, Doogie and The General for support.  You guys are awesome!    TBC RESULTS

Vic took an impressive win in  the Cat 2 road race and made it intoVelonews!  He was one second out of 1st!

March 19, 2010 · Filed Under Race Report, Uncategorized

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North End Classic

From Elliot Anderson: Day 1 – Got 3rd (of 14) in the Cat 3 crit, a lot of turns, a kicker short hard
uphill on the back side of the course, rough bumpy terrain throughout (concrete, asphalt, tile, pot-holes) but Im good at technical turns and fast corners etc (8th in tour de gila technical crit and tucson wed night crits are similar) and the kid in front of me right before the final turn was cooking and wiped out hard (i knew he was going too fast for his own good,tired and sloppy, happens to everyone, but he looked dangerous right before he went down..) and almost hit him but then stayed upfront and got 3rd behind a short stocky Bicycle Ranch racer and a young kid was was strong all day (who also won 3 of the 4 primes’!!)
Day 2 – Y and Kurt were amazing out there today – attack after attack and solo TT to create chasing and a bad ass lead out totally delivering me to the line beautifully.  Got 6th in the day (4th and 5th were the same 1st and 2nd from day 1) and places 1-3rd today were yesterday’s finishers of 6th, 4th and 15th respectively, but enough to bump me from 3rd to 5th (even though there was a tie for 3rd).

Elijet and the podium babe

I learned a lot and felt honored to have the guys work for me.  Got 5th overall, $40 cash prise and 2 more points towards cat 2, only 22 to go!  ahahhhah!!!
2010 NEC Old Guy Crit report. By Rick Ellwanger
50+ and 60+ guys raced together; about 20 total.  The 10 turn course winds thru the historic “Old Town” district of Yuma and includes a 2 block long hill.  There were only a few other guys in the 60+ class and I made a point of keeping track of where they were.  At the start of the final lap I moved to the front of the peloton and started to gradually pick up the pace.  I knew I had only 1 serious competitor (Roy Quade from Calgary Canada who had finished 3rd gc in VOS) and he was at that moment 5-6 positions back.  I knew Bob Pongratz and other 50+ guys would pass me at some point  during the lap and my plan was to force my way onto a wheel as they went by and try and stay ahead of Roy.  No one challenged for the lead on the hill climb which surprised me a bit but since they didn’t I made sure I took the next 3 downhill turns at the highest speed I could muster to discourage passing.  Finally at the end of the longish straightaway going into the last 3 turns Bob Pongratz and 2 other guys overtook me.  I accelerated a bit to get on rider 3s wheel and then we were thru the penultimate turn heading for the last turn and continuing to accelerate.  I turned wide and carefully on the final turn and I was able to pedal all the way thru the turn at max effort and I just continued to grind across the finish line.  Turns out Roy was on my wheel going over the line but that was the best he could do.   Eureka, the plan worked!
In fairness, he enjoyed revenge the next day and beat me in the circuit race.

March 3, 2010 · Filed Under Race Report

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2010 Callville Bay Classic

Post by Jeremy Wilson

February 26 – 28, 2010

 

The TT was on Friday the 26 and it was up hill 3.6 miles with 4 – 5% grade with a kicker of 7% grade at the end. Names like Robert Shaw and Ryan La Pier were racing in Cat3. Shaw was the guy who won the TT and GC at VOS. His time was 31:11 at VOS. La Pier finished 4th in the GC at VOS and second in the RR. There were 56 starters for the day. I finished 37th. I dropped my chain near 3 miles into the race. When I looked over the power data I had to lost power for 15 seconds. I took me 3 seconds to get back up to power. I was a little disappointed but I knew the road race the next day would settle things.

The RR was brutal with steady winds, temps in the 40’s, and intermittent rain, let’s face it was mostly rain. The race started with the same up hill climb that was the TT. As a group, I believed we ascended faster up that climb then I did in the TT. I just sat in the middle of the pack and enjoyed the draft. The race continued on an undulating road with some long steep climbs. The race leaders were relentless. On the way north I was dropped about a half mile from the top of the first big climb. I didn’t panic and continue to ride strong to the top. I was telling my self “I could get back on if they just eased a little.” Plus, I was doing 420 watts when I was dropped. That’s 5.3 / kg for me. I knew they couldn’t hold that for much longer. I think the only thing that really rattled me was when the wheel truck passed. It’s as if they are saying “Oh, he’s off. He won’t get back on.” F— that! I hammered on the down side, through the slight flat, and passing the wheel truck back in the pack. I stopped pedaling once I was in the middle of the pack which was down to about 35 riders. The same shenanigans continue from the turn around heading south. This time I just watched for the head bobbles and was on it with any little acceleration. Somewhere about 40 miles into the race some guy took a flyer.The pack didn’t chase until the south turn around about 10 miles left. It was fast. I wasn’t up front during the turn around and that was a mistake. I ended up getting gapped, the wheel truck coming around, and me saying “F—!” No way was I going to be dropped 10 miles from the finish after working my ass off to stay on. I ended up dragging 5 others back up to the pack. I received a couple of thank you’s and one guy who told me I just saved his race. It felt fair enough to hear “thank you” but in all honesty I didn’t care who I was dragging back up. I just wanted to get back to the pack.  We ended up catching the guy who took the flyer.  Then two others managed to attack and stay off until the end. One guy was 29 seconds up the road and the other was 4 seconds. I ended up 26 in the pack. There were 52 finishers & 4 DNF’s.

The next day’s criterium was uninteresting. Only 46 guys showed up to race. 5 guys total were popped off and it was a group finish. One crash and of course it was on the last turn into the finish. I ended up 32nd and 25th on the GC.

March 3, 2010 · Filed Under Uncategorized

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Cart Crit Carnage

Cart track yesterday was great (for the most part).  Doogie went down in the final corner with mere laps to go.  He was on or near the front most of the C race.  His company in the scruff helped kill the Seven!  He donated some skin as well, but he is ok.  Perhaps we should start a running division…
Bryan won the B race with a searing attack on the group!  Elliot had been out solo and held on for 4th or 5th.
Dave Swanson beat us like rented mules (thanks Vic for the line) in the A race.  There were only seven riders, four of which were Aggress.  I was having a sandwich-enduced side ache and couldn’t sustain an attack with Y half way thorough the 45 min. race; however, I hid out long enough to attack the group with 3/4 of a lap to go and took 2nd and a prime.  Elijet was breathing down my neck at the finish.  Y took the ‘field sprint’ giving Aggress 2nd – 4th. Leo did some serious work on the front before retreating to the sweeper spot.
Rick also had a strong showing mixing it up with the youngster crowd.  He seemed to be the only 60+ rider out there and he had a very strong ride.

February 20, 2010 · Filed Under Race Report

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24 Hours in the Old Pueble

iMike Puchowicz took on the solo category.  Beto Villegas gave it up for him doing amazing support:  We await the full details, but here is the preliminary report:

9th out of 96
Everything hurts.  Beto is the best pit support person ever, and I got a glimpse of what it’s going to be when I’m 90 and my wife has to dress me because I can’t do it myself anymore.

February 20, 2010 · Filed Under Race Report

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Valley of the Sun

VOS was great.  Brian was tremendous in his support.  In the 60+, Rick finished 5th GC!  In the 5’s, Doogie finished 10th overall! I finished 24th and Y in 28th in the 3’s.  It was an excellent weekend and a great time dusting off the racing shoes.
Vic won the 2’s RR!  He smoked the boys in a straight up sprint.  Vic also took a huge dig in the 2’s and spent 1 1/2 lap off the front in the crit. It was an all-in move.  It didn’t work, but damn it was cool to watch.  He finished in 14th.
 
 
Warming up for the Crit.  It turns out nobody brought a camera.
How the RR evolved for the Masters 50/60 +.  From Rick Ellwanger:
The RR was my best event.  Shortly after the rollout I moved to the front of the 50/60 combined peloton so I could enjoy a clean path around the first corner and be a little ahead of the inevitable acceleration that I was sure would follow.  It did, of course, and I slipped back to 10-12th and I felt pretty comfortable there.  About a mile after the turn we passed the Cat 5b group; How could that be?? (50 wheel sucking pussies all afraid to take a pull, that’s how!).  The first trip up the hill to the S/F line was uneventful although about 1/3 of the way up Franz Hammer went by me on the shoulder and I tucked in behind him back up to the front.  I think he just wanted to see who was on the front because he just sat a little behind and to the side of the leader as the hill got steeper. Eventually I started losing it a bit and slipping back; by the top I was 3/4 of the way to the back of the peloton, but I rested on the downhill back to hwy 187.  Lap 2 was mundane until about 2/3 of the way up the hill climb at which point several riders broke off the front to vie for the KOM points and prem. (to be recaptured on the downhill).  As the main peloton approached the summit we overtook several riders from the Cat 5a group and there was a crash about 3/4 of the way back in the peloton, just in front of me, involving 5-6 riders and about a dozen of us ended up with a 100 yd gap to the rest of the peloton as a result of slowing to avoid the wrecked riders. We started working together to recapture and actually were able to close the gap a bit by the turn back onto 187.  At the turn I took the lead because I knew I could take the turn full speed with pedaling and most of the group stayed with me thru the turn.  The main peloton had slowed a lot to go around that corner and we gained on them significantly right there.  The last 30 yds was quickly closed and we were back in the peloton; Whew!  Halfway up the final hill climb to the S/F line the peloton splintered as the pace increased noticeably and the landscape got a little confusing as we overtook some additional riders from the 5a group, and my fleeting thought of moving to the front of the pack for the final sprint evaporated.  I resolved to hang with my splinter group, and was able to do so, across the line.  All in all, a good effort, and a great learning experience.
RESULTS

February 20, 2010 · Filed Under Race Report

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McDowell Circuit Race

Report from Rick:  Did the McDowell Circuit race today (30 min around a 1.6 mile loop with 2 turns); gorgeous venue, mostly sunny (pic attached).  This race had a 60+ group and we started about a minute behind the 50+ group.  The race was mundanely civilized; I and an AZ Masters rider (Robert Tomkins) did all the pulling between us and about half way thru we bumped the pace up and dropped half our group.  Norm Kibble hung on with us.  On the last lap I dropped into 3rd deliberately until the final 300m or so at which point Tomkins commenced his sprint.  At 250mKibble started to lose the leader’s wheel so I made a move to the outside, passed Kibble and continued to close on Tomkins, albeit slowly.  In the end, he beat me by about a bike length.  Nevertheless, I felt like I managed the race pretty well, finished 2nd, and got a bit of cash

February 18, 2010 · Filed Under Race Report

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Flapjack TT 20K

Good start to the season eating some cakes.

 

Cat 3

1st – tie Kurt Garbe 0:29:30 25.28 mph

4th Bryan Schlegel  0:30:17 24.62 mph

Cat 5      2nd Scott Douglas  0:32:19 23.07 mph


Merckx 5th Jim Averill 0:32:37 22.86 mh

6th Bryan Schlegel  0:33:03 22.56 mph in round two!!  He just change the jersey and machine and off he went again.

60+

6th Richard Ellwanger  0:34:02 21.91 mph

Cat 1/2 honorary mention

3rd and 3rd overall –  Victor Riquelme 0:28:05 26.55

Complete results

February 10, 2010 · Filed Under Race Report

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UofA Crit

Bryan wrote: Great efforts on the day from all involved. Also, big cheer for Paula & Beto for coming up from Sierra Vista. Paula and Doogie both jumped in and raced the Master Mens 30+ (VERY fast group comprised of a lot of CAT1/2s). Leo did the shootout as a warmup for the Cat 3s and Neil rolled over from studying at the library. Way to go!

18th Richard Ellwanger Master 50+

12th Scott Douglas Cat 5

18th Bryan Schlegel Master 30+

DNF Scott Douglas Master 30+

DNF Paula Bohte Master 30+

4th Bryan Schlegel Cat 3              Vic’s video of the 3/4 race

12th Neil Becwar Cat 3

16th Leo Masursky Cat 3

6th Paula Bohte Pro Cat 1-2-3 F

14th Victor Riquelme Pro Cat 1-2 M

http://uacycling.com/UACrit_Results_2010.pdf

February 10, 2010 · Filed Under Uncategorized

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