Sputtering along …
Not-so-Recent News d’ NorCal
Egads ~ the time does fly, don’t it?
The three-day weekend of “intro to territories d’ fresburg” went as most thought it might … lower turnouts in the p/1/2 fields - and dominated by the Yahooligans - while strong showings of the human categories as weekend warriors and up-and-comers take a look at what it’s like racing in February … in the middle of nowhere.
On the topic of field sizes ~ I’ve always been of the opinion that team size should be limited to 8 riders in fields under 50, and 10 for fields over 50 … but, considering the Cantua/PineFlat/D’numba races are VeloPromo dinkfests ~ limiting team entries would reduce field sizes from 20 to 16 … so, what’s the point?
Still, it was good to see the Yahooligans building more morale early in the season with results being spread amongst their team like they were sharing candy stole’d from a mini-mart guarded by retards.
Kinda reminds me of that old SATURN pro’team commercial (yes, they used to have commercials on the tube that featured cyclists other than L’Armstrong) … where the men’s team is crowding off the front of some fake-race … having a nice, polite discussion about who will win the race ‘this time.’ I think that commercial also had a shot of one of the Saturn riders stopping to pick up a gel packet that another rider throws to the ground mid-race. The Saturn riders stops, picks up the trash, pedals up the litterbug rider … “scuse me, i think you dropped this” … then rides away, straight up to the front of the race.
a-yup.
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CCCX … puttin’ on the ritz
The CCCX madmen are back to putting on some road events to compliment their down-home dirt races that make most of the Monterey folks wonder why anyone would ever drive more than an hour for the honor of paying an entry fee.
The circuit race was a sweet little bucket of closed roads that the military once used to move all their toys around as they practiced their tough-guy diplomacy.
Better use, these days. Too bad most of that territory is going to be cut up and pasted together with somewhere near affordable housing … ah well.
But this weekend the old Fort was used for some polite warfare and the best foto finish of the early season was caught and hammered by the one and only SteveAnderson (best graphic-ly oriented weatherman i ever did meet).
It’s Nick Theobold taking the 35+ win ~ just coming around CCCX promoter Keith Defiebre in the sprint … showing excellent bikethrow-skilz and a strong desire to get to that line first.
Kudos to Nick and the CCCX crew for putting on more events.
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SAMAAN wins @ Burlingame slippyfest
And it was nice to see the WellsFargo cats get their first men’s p1/2 win of the season with Colin Samaan nailing a wet and wild course.
Well done - looking forward to seeing more of what’s to come.
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More later, with feeling ~ i suppose …
February 22nd, 2010 at
Samaan was caught in the back group of the P12 split. The group that was allowed to sprint before it got lapped but was pulled. He wasn’t content there so he solo bridged up to the front group, like you do, ya know. No problem. Then he won it. Makes it more impressive to hear the full story…
Also, Zwizanski really didn’t want to sprint so he was going full tilt off the front of the P12 on a few occasions, but most strongly right at the end. CalGiant smartly hung Yahoo out to dry on the chase (with that many Yahoo, wouldn’t you?) but John Wilk buried it for lap after lap and and brought it back. Huge effort - didn’t pay off this time, but it was fun to watch the Zwizanski/Wilk pursuit…
February 22nd, 2010 at
thanks for the report, Hardman.
and i plugged your blog into the reader, should show up in the left column … sorry for not catching that stuff earlier.
thanks again,
m
February 22nd, 2010 at
Okay, fine, we’ll just go ahead and change how my last name is spelled. After all, I’d rather be bold than bald.
February 23rd, 2010 at
The massive crowd watching sure was hoping Zwizanski could hold them off. It was fun to watch!
February 24th, 2010 at
Da Central Coast Circuit race was happening. That route just seems to produce great racing. Thanks for making the positive note on that event. It was my 3rd Road Race ever and the cccx circuit was plain good. Mikey me likey.
February 24th, 2010 at
There is no letter I in team be there is letter’s M and a E.
ME
That is what Yahoo brings to the table. Me Me Me.
Hooligan antics will not be tollerated on my watch. My Webcor Greenies Boys and my Wells Fag-o Bank Boys will certainly drop the hammer down on the Yahooligan pussy cats.
February 24th, 2010 at
Ya Who could be in big trouble cause there are too many guys and only one ball to shoot. I think the captain Kliendike is the best of the lot for barking orders. They are fun to watch because they never really have one plan, they have so far just had the numbers advantage.
February 24th, 2010 at
Did you know that there is no U in team? You will never be on the Y! team. Any questions?
March 1st, 2010 at
Yeah but I do know there is a U in Stupid! And Stupid is what Stupid does and Y team does Stupid stuff. But you all do look cute in purple jersey’s and old black shorts on your team riders that are not the same style and most of the riders have holes in theor shorts because the shorts are so ancient. I wouldnt want o be on the Y team cause I dont want to wear old black shorts and a purple jersey to races. I will keep wearing my mean green cycling machine kit, thanks