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NCNCA Racing- November 19-20 Single Speed Cyclocross World Championships
- November 19 -Sacramento Cyclocross Ione
- November 12 – Pilarcitos Bay Area Super Prestige Series, Sierra Point
- November 9 – Folsom Rodeo Cyclocross Wednesday Night Series
Getting Back on Track – Cal Cup
Almost back on track after a few weeks on the road. Cal Cup battles have started picking up… of course this being a slightly more, I need to search for a constructive word here, ‘fungible’ type of contest, which may not adhere to the needs of our Type-A race community, results of races and the overall Cal Cup race are hard to come by. Here is a go at result and best guess of status. If anybody has updates on these let me know.
Warnerville TT
Evan Huffman (Cal-Giant) used some of that post Cascade fitness to put the hurt down on the men’s field and take the win. Huffman seems like he’s on the precipice of a big break going into next year. Nice to see Justin Rossi (Marco-Pro Strava) taking a run at things after a mid season lull to grab third place from Jame Wingert (love that last name!) Jane Despas knocked out a win for Yahoo! in the women’s race over comeback story Gina Roberge who takes time off of her Peanut Butter & Co./2012 directing duties to jump into the occasional race.
Patterson Pass
Annie Fulton walked away with a win in the women’s race giving her a strong launching position for a run at the overall. Look for Fulton to emerge at some of the harder Cal Cup events like Winters RR, University RR, and Challenge RR. Still tracking down men’s info.
Dunnigan Hills RR
David Benkoski (Specialized Juniors) nabbed second in a sprint finish in this flat and fast road race ensuring him his Cat 1 upgrade. I am still trying to identify this “Wonderful Pistachio” rider who pipped at the line in this Jane Despas (Yahoo) took the women’s proving that her steady observational style of racing always ends with a cobra strike. A word of advice to the NorCal women’s peloton… if you have a rider like Despas in your break and she’s not doing any work, then you better get ready to sprint for second.
Suisun Crit
Yukie Nakamura, another member of the NorCal Cycling Twitteratti, has live tweeted a couple of events when she is not “Rand heckling.” Her live coverage of Suisun was awesome so i highly recommend following her on Twitter Jane Robertson (Metromint) soloed off the front of the women’s field to beat a hard charging Mary Maroon (Webcor) and Kristin Drumm (Cycles Fanatic.) The men’s field drew a strong field including the dynamic crit duo of Rand & Reaney, and local pro’s like eventual winner Andy Jacques Maynes (Bissell), and runner up Daniel Holloway (Kelly Benefit.)
Cal Cup Overall
Where does that leave us? I expect Velopromo or some other enterprising individual has a better take on overall results but here is my best guess. Jane Despas is most likely in the lead followed by Annie Fulton and Mary Marron. Lorry Huffman is estimating that her progeny Evan Huffman, has garnered enough points at Dunnigan to keep him in the lead after his TT victory. Of course it is all hearsay until it’s entered at USA Cycling but they are probably busy running a Grand Fondo in St. Louis or something. Stay tuned…
August 16th, 2011 at
Patterson Pass was won by Stephen Leece(NOW MS) ahead of Nate Wilson(Cal Giant). The two got away on the second lap and were left out there to fight amongst themselves for the victory. At some point they caught and passed Yury Yurchanka(McGuire) who was part of the early break, but he was able to hang on for third. I attacked out of an elite chase group to take 4th ahead of Keith Hillier and Nate English. English attacked on the 3rd lap, but the headwind on the main climb was too much for him to drag me all the way across to the leaders. Full results: http://www.usacycling.org/results/?permit=2011-1792
Dunnigan Hills RR was won by Collin Samaan out of a 5-rider break that went late on the last lap. I took the sprint for 6th out of a 3-rider chase and LaBerge senior took the field sprint for 9th. It was kind of a hectic finish with the new run-in and we passed a women’s field within the last few K’s. Full results: http://www.usacycling.org/results/?permit=2011-2665
Can’t find official Cal-Cup standings anywhere, but by my calculations it’s Yury Yurchanka with 38 points, me (Evan Huffman) with 37 points, and Nate Wilson with 34 points. Nathan is going back to Colorado to start school on Saturday so won’t factor in to the overall.
August 16th, 2011 at
The wonderful pistachio rider is Mr. Collin Samaan.
August 17th, 2011 at
Patterson Pass report from CalGiant: http://www.calgiantcycling.com/2011/08/wilson-second-at-patterson-pass-huffman-leads-calcup/
August 23rd, 2011 at
W1/2/3 cal cup calculator. these are not official because there are no official cal cup results. but…from my math after suisun here’s the list. Jane is way out in front with a close race for second and third
Jane Despas (yahoo)- 52
Michelle Melka (RED Racing) – 29
Jane Robertson (metromint) – 26
Mary Maroon (webcor) – 25
Anna Barnesfeld (missing link) – 22
Anne Fulton – 20