What an awesome night for Cyclo Cross @ SECCA or to finish out the last Ace Race at Ace Speedway. The B race had a nice field of ~30 riders with Rick Lee and Steve Golinski flying the MOB colors. Rick was position at the front covering a flerrie of attacks to allow Steve the opportunity to contest the finish and contest the finish he did. A lone DeOro rider took a flyer with 3 laps to go. Rick went to the front to all but bring him back. The DeOro rider went on to win the Gamblers prine with 1 to go but was caught by a charging Steve and one other rider coming out of turn two. Steve made the move to the bottom of the of the track while the other rider went around on the high side. Steve got a gap with a solid sprint that he started 1/2 way down the back stretch. Steve had such a lead he was able to sit up coming into the home stretch for the win! On the cool down from the B race Mark Jellous and myself congratuted Steve on his victory and Rick on his effort. I then told Mark since Steve won the B race he had to win the A race for the sweep.
The situation for the season standing had Mark on the podium in 3rd and behind 2nd place, Erin Pharm, by 3 points. Mark stated the race setting the tempo at the front with multi efforts with me trying the mark the riders that could compromize Marks 3rd place standing. With 15 laps to go Mark was able to get in to a move with Ben Fualk, Michael Vandy, and a bridging Zandy Collins. Now for my role is was easy 1) either wait for Mark to come around and help him with a lead out and 2) try to get between him and 2nd place Erin.
With 3 to go, the break was well established and not coming to the field, by choice so I just sat on waited. Coming to the line with 1 to go I hit it with all I had from about 4th in the field and just kept digging. I look under my shoulder coming to the line and see Erin coming but he was not going to catch me for 5th place. On the cool down lap confirmed that Mark won and with Erin finishing 6th. This would be enough for Mark to finish 2nd for the series. The events of the evening made for a light hearted trip home. A great night all the way around. Now it is time to get ready for the Carolina Cup. Rodney
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
Aug. 24th What a week!
From the Individual TT to the Team TT to Tour De Gaps to more Cyclo Cross it was a great week for MOB. Wed. Aug 26th at Lowes Motor Speedway we had Rick Lee who won the Cat. III individual TT with another personal best of 22:00:79 just so close to under 22mins. Then we had two Teams in the Team TT. MOB Team I was Daryl Rains, Kelly Holmes, Brad Messenger and Rich Melenico who worked together to set a time of 22:06. Good enough for 5th out of 31 teams. Then MOB Team II of Zach Lail, Jay Cox, Joe Carpissasi and Mark Jellous set the third fastest time of of the night of 19:13! The fastest team was Carolina Masters who posted a 18:32.
Then on Sat. Jay "the Mt. Man" Cox, Frank "the climber" Mullins and myself took part in
the 9th annual Tour De Gaps in Mt Airey. This event boasts of over 11,000ft of climbing in 82miles. We had the sheer pleasure of climbing Squirrel Spur , Willis Gap, Orchard Gap and then the icing on the cake was Pipers Gaps. All 4 gaps combine for 30miles of climbing leaving just 50miles to roll around. Jay was able to finish a very impressive 2nd place in a time 4hrs 17mins. Myself and Frank ended the day by doing 3 / 4 of the climbs.
Then there was a host of folks @ SECCA who worked to perpare the course for the upcoming training and pre season races. There is a 20 degree drop in the temps today from yesterday almost feels like Cross is around the corner. Till next time have fun and be safe. Rodney
Then on Sat. Jay "the Mt. Man" Cox, Frank "the climber" Mullins and myself took part in
the 9th annual Tour De Gaps in Mt Airey. This event boasts of over 11,000ft of climbing in 82miles. We had the sheer pleasure of climbing Squirrel Spur , Willis Gap, Orchard Gap and then the icing on the cake was Pipers Gaps. All 4 gaps combine for 30miles of climbing leaving just 50miles to roll around. Jay was able to finish a very impressive 2nd place in a time 4hrs 17mins. Myself and Frank ended the day by doing 3 / 4 of the climbs.
Then there was a host of folks @ SECCA who worked to perpare the course for the upcoming training and pre season races. There is a 20 degree drop in the temps today from yesterday almost feels like Cross is around the corner. Till next time have fun and be safe. Rodney
Saturday, August 15, 2009
MOB is everywhere
From Ace Speedway to Terry's Challenge biathlon to the Blue Ridge Brutal 100 MOB was everywhere this weekend. We had Pete Cannell, Grant Lawyer and Mark Jellous in the Master's race at Ace Speedway which Mark was able to lap the field with one other rider from the super team support and would go on to win the event.
Mark, and Grant then joined Zach Lail, Kelly Holmes and Avery Telligman in the A race. Zach, Mark, and Grant would lap the field as part of a 7 man break. I'm not sure how this one played out. So maybe we can get the result from one of these 5.
All the while Frank "the climber" Mullins was in West Jefferson participating int he Blue Ridge Brutal 100. This is a 104 mile event with over 10,000ft of climbing. 30miles into it Frank is in the select group of the day with John Patterson, Ryan Jenkins, Charlie Brown, Terry Huss, Jeremy Kahn, and two others. Frank would go onto finish 6th over all in a time of 4hrs and 47min. That is a great effort!
Then we had Paul and Julie Paisant, Steve Golinski and his wife Jennifer, Rick Lee and his wife Stacie, and myself did the Terry's Challenge Biathlon. Paul was able to bring home some hardware for his team. Team Golinski, Steve and Jennifer were able to bring home a trophy, Rick and Stacie Lee were able bring home a trophy, Julie teamed with her sister in law won the women's team division and I was able to win the men's team division with the help of Jacob Crickenburger as my runner.
Wow, what a Team that we can be in so many different events and still have such great success!
Who knows where we will be next weekend, maybe Krispy Kreme!
Mark, and Grant then joined Zach Lail, Kelly Holmes and Avery Telligman in the A race. Zach, Mark, and Grant would lap the field as part of a 7 man break. I'm not sure how this one played out. So maybe we can get the result from one of these 5.
All the while Frank "the climber" Mullins was in West Jefferson participating int he Blue Ridge Brutal 100. This is a 104 mile event with over 10,000ft of climbing. 30miles into it Frank is in the select group of the day with John Patterson, Ryan Jenkins, Charlie Brown, Terry Huss, Jeremy Kahn, and two others. Frank would go onto finish 6th over all in a time of 4hrs and 47min. That is a great effort!
Then we had Paul and Julie Paisant, Steve Golinski and his wife Jennifer, Rick Lee and his wife Stacie, and myself did the Terry's Challenge Biathlon. Paul was able to bring home some hardware for his team. Team Golinski, Steve and Jennifer were able to bring home a trophy, Rick and Stacie Lee were able bring home a trophy, Julie teamed with her sister in law won the women's team division and I was able to win the men's team division with the help of Jacob Crickenburger as my runner.
Wow, what a Team that we can be in so many different events and still have such great success!
Who knows where we will be next weekend, maybe Krispy Kreme!
Monday, August 10, 2009
Cat 4 / Crossroads & Hanes Park
The Crossroads Classics are a fun week of racing. This year I raced the last three of the five races in Salisbury, Statesville & Harrisburg, finishing 25th, 15th and 11th. Charles joined in on the fun @ Salisbury and Statesville and rode strong. Congratulations to Jerry Rebo who raced all of the Crossroads races and finished 3rd in the overall. Also, Congratulations to all team members who participated in the races, as we finished third overall in the team competition.
The Hanes Park Classic Cat 4 race was an absolute blast. I overheard several people questioning the decision to reverse the course, my opinion, it was great. We had a strong presence in the field with myself, Rebo, Charles, Matt Chambers and Steve Golinski. Charles, Rebo and I stayed at the front the entire race not letting anything get away. I won a Mock Orange Prime and tried to stay off the front but wasn't capable of doing it alone so I sat up and integrated back into the field. Charles had a plan for he and I to get Rebo off the front on the last lap for a shot at the win but it didn't pan out, Rebo had worked his rear off at the front and chasing down attacks and his legs had left him. Charles executed like he said he was going to and I went with him, I had a shot at the win but finished second with Charles 5th, Rebo 14th and Steve and Matt finishing strong. Great team effort.
I would also like to thank everyone for the offers to teach me to get in the drops, stand up and sprint. I'm pretty sure I get it... LOL
The Hanes Park Classic Cat 4 race was an absolute blast. I overheard several people questioning the decision to reverse the course, my opinion, it was great. We had a strong presence in the field with myself, Rebo, Charles, Matt Chambers and Steve Golinski. Charles, Rebo and I stayed at the front the entire race not letting anything get away. I won a Mock Orange Prime and tried to stay off the front but wasn't capable of doing it alone so I sat up and integrated back into the field. Charles had a plan for he and I to get Rebo off the front on the last lap for a shot at the win but it didn't pan out, Rebo had worked his rear off at the front and chasing down attacks and his legs had left him. Charles executed like he said he was going to and I went with him, I had a shot at the win but finished second with Charles 5th, Rebo 14th and Steve and Matt finishing strong. Great team effort.
I would also like to thank everyone for the offers to teach me to get in the drops, stand up and sprint. I'm pretty sure I get it... LOL
Hanes Park M35+ Race Report
Yesterday was one of the hottest days of the year, and Hanes Park always seems to be the same, super hot.
The course was new this year, ran in reverse with a new finish line. Very very nice - plus it finishes right in front of Mock Orange Bikes.
Once again it was the usual suspects in the masters race, with a few out of towners.
The race started pretty fast, and a few moves tried to go but didn't get far. About 1/2 way through we finally got a move that stuck, me and the two fastest sprinters in the race! Chip hoover, Charlie and me. Charlie was looking pretty strong, chip was dying. I should have dropped him from the break when he was vulnerable, but I didn't. Mistake.
With 2 laps to go, I found myself on the front with no one willing to pull through. The field started to get close, and with 1/2 lap left they were only 5 or 10 seconds back. So I was forced to stay on the front, and both sprinters got me. But I did get both primes along the way.
Fun course, super hot day! When I got home I still felt like riding a bit more, so out for an hour or so, few hard efforts, just enjoying the sun and 98.7 degree high for the day.
Cheers,
Pete
The course was new this year, ran in reverse with a new finish line. Very very nice - plus it finishes right in front of Mock Orange Bikes.
Once again it was the usual suspects in the masters race, with a few out of towners.
The race started pretty fast, and a few moves tried to go but didn't get far. About 1/2 way through we finally got a move that stuck, me and the two fastest sprinters in the race! Chip hoover, Charlie and me. Charlie was looking pretty strong, chip was dying. I should have dropped him from the break when he was vulnerable, but I didn't. Mistake.
With 2 laps to go, I found myself on the front with no one willing to pull through. The field started to get close, and with 1/2 lap left they were only 5 or 10 seconds back. So I was forced to stay on the front, and both sprinters got me. But I did get both primes along the way.
Fun course, super hot day! When I got home I still felt like riding a bit more, so out for an hour or so, few hard efforts, just enjoying the sun and 98.7 degree high for the day.
Cheers,
Pete
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Crossroads Crit and yet another electronic component to the bike
First, I have added yet another electronic gizmo to my bike. Now my bike has 5 items with batteries:
1. Di2 battery
2. Powermeter crank battery
3. Powermeter computer battery
4. Rear blinkie light battery
5. 1500 lumen, 23w Lupine Betty Light battery
I'm wired up like the terminator now. Fun stuff. That lupine light is amazing, obvious super high quality german engineering and just bright as all can be. Bring on the early AM rides.
I raced one of the crossroads crits today, a M35+ crit near charlotte. This series has been going on since tuesday, races every night, with some pretty big fields and very strong masters guys. Many of these guys go on to win the p1/2 races later in the day. IN almost every compairsion, my power has been higher by a long shot in the masters races vs p1/2 races - with the exception of the really really hard NRC races.
Today was the last race in the series, and it was a really close omnium between charlie brown and some super fast sprinter dude from the midwest. Charlie needed to beat him by 1 place today to take the overall, so I agreed to help him out if I could. I got a really solid warmup, 35 min, 500kj, so hit the line HOT. I attacked from lap 1, charlie and I drilled it and basically rode everyone off our wheel, flying through these turns (really technical short course) and going balls out. First 5 min was 410w average with a bunch of no-pedal turns. One guy came with us and we quickly took off, putting 5 to 8 seconds per lap into the field. Both guys agreed early on not to sprint if I would work, so we all traded pulls, I did a bunch of work and we lapped the field.
As we lapped the field, there was one guy, Ryan, off the front of the field about 1/2 lap behind us - and I couldn't have him joining us on the lead lap, so I went to the front and rode a hard tempo for a good while, 15 min or so, to ensure he didn't. The course was wide open, and we could see each other the whole way, like a pursiut. Fun stuff. Came to the finish nice and safe, clean win. There were several crashes but thankfully no one was hurt too bad.
It was nice to come back to racing after a bit of a break and pickup a nice win, not a lucky last corner move but a strong hard effort.
Cheers,
Pete
1. Di2 battery
2. Powermeter crank battery
3. Powermeter computer battery
4. Rear blinkie light battery
5. 1500 lumen, 23w Lupine Betty Light battery
I'm wired up like the terminator now. Fun stuff. That lupine light is amazing, obvious super high quality german engineering and just bright as all can be. Bring on the early AM rides.
I raced one of the crossroads crits today, a M35+ crit near charlotte. This series has been going on since tuesday, races every night, with some pretty big fields and very strong masters guys. Many of these guys go on to win the p1/2 races later in the day. IN almost every compairsion, my power has been higher by a long shot in the masters races vs p1/2 races - with the exception of the really really hard NRC races.
Today was the last race in the series, and it was a really close omnium between charlie brown and some super fast sprinter dude from the midwest. Charlie needed to beat him by 1 place today to take the overall, so I agreed to help him out if I could. I got a really solid warmup, 35 min, 500kj, so hit the line HOT. I attacked from lap 1, charlie and I drilled it and basically rode everyone off our wheel, flying through these turns (really technical short course) and going balls out. First 5 min was 410w average with a bunch of no-pedal turns. One guy came with us and we quickly took off, putting 5 to 8 seconds per lap into the field. Both guys agreed early on not to sprint if I would work, so we all traded pulls, I did a bunch of work and we lapped the field.
As we lapped the field, there was one guy, Ryan, off the front of the field about 1/2 lap behind us - and I couldn't have him joining us on the lead lap, so I went to the front and rode a hard tempo for a good while, 15 min or so, to ensure he didn't. The course was wide open, and we could see each other the whole way, like a pursiut. Fun stuff. Came to the finish nice and safe, clean win. There were several crashes but thankfully no one was hurt too bad.
It was nice to come back to racing after a bit of a break and pickup a nice win, not a lucky last corner move but a strong hard effort.
Cheers,
Pete
Friday, July 31, 2009
Hurt, Pain and agony lives up to its name
It is only 100K how bad can it be.? With almost 7,000ft of climbing in that distance makes it one of the hardest events i do all year. Last Sat. was a beautiful morning as Frank Mullins, Stephen Brumley, Paul and Julie Paisant and myself went to raise proceeds for the Cancer Foundation on one of the meanest and most seneic rides we will do all year.
This ride starts for the 1st 6miles out of the box all up hill with 2 sections of 18% grade. Eric Austin was off the front by the time we turned L onto Frank P Parkway which is the entrance to Stone Mt. State parkway. I set a tempo on the front that pulled Stephen, Frank and Jeremiah Kahn out of the field. Once on to Oklahoma it is still Eric with a gap Stephen's pulls then Frank then Kahn who turns up the heat and takes Frank up to Eric.
The three of them are hooked up and gone once we top out Oklahoma and it leaves Stephen and I as the 1st chase group. As we make our way over to the Parkway I can tell today was going to be a along one with the way I was feeling. Stephen is now taking longer pulls as my turns get shorter.
I start to eat and drink but still was not feeling it. Now it is my team mate who is doing all the work to get me back in. I felt really bad about holding him up as he was almost having to push me up some of the rollers. The worse I felt the stronger Stephen seemed to be.
It was at about mile 40 that while on Stephen's wheel I heard a pop and first thought that he had broken a cable. We pull over and it is a broken spoke in the front wheel. As we are removing the spoke here comes a group of7 lined up like a trian with John Hamblin on the front. They were rolling. Now Stephen has to nurse home a bike that gets high speed wheel wobble and me. At mile 50 we get up the steep 18% pitch up to the the Parkway as I notice the legs are really starting to sting. With less than 8miles to go I cramp so hard I have to get off the bike. After stretching a bit was able to get back on and get back down to the Trap Hill Elementary school where we started. I Thanked Stephen for bring me in and meet up with Frank who was able to finish second to Kahn which is a tremendous effort for the day.
I talked to Paul and Julie who were using the event as training and they said they had a good day as well.
Once I got home and kicked up my heels I called Grant Lawyer who did the cat. 3 race in Reidsville. He told me about his event and Daryl's result then began to tell me about the Pro 1/2 race and how Jay Cox attacked out of the field and that John Hamblin , yes that is right the same one who came by us at Hurt, Pain and Agony towing a group like the engine of a train, joined Jay and Charlie Brown to lap the field. That really hurt my feelings. But it was a great result for Jay who would go onto finish 2nd in the Pro 1/2 race. The good thing about racing your bike there is always another day. See you on the road. Rodney
This ride starts for the 1st 6miles out of the box all up hill with 2 sections of 18% grade. Eric Austin was off the front by the time we turned L onto Frank P Parkway which is the entrance to Stone Mt. State parkway. I set a tempo on the front that pulled Stephen, Frank and Jeremiah Kahn out of the field. Once on to Oklahoma it is still Eric with a gap Stephen's pulls then Frank then Kahn who turns up the heat and takes Frank up to Eric.
The three of them are hooked up and gone once we top out Oklahoma and it leaves Stephen and I as the 1st chase group. As we make our way over to the Parkway I can tell today was going to be a along one with the way I was feeling. Stephen is now taking longer pulls as my turns get shorter.
I start to eat and drink but still was not feeling it. Now it is my team mate who is doing all the work to get me back in. I felt really bad about holding him up as he was almost having to push me up some of the rollers. The worse I felt the stronger Stephen seemed to be.
It was at about mile 40 that while on Stephen's wheel I heard a pop and first thought that he had broken a cable. We pull over and it is a broken spoke in the front wheel. As we are removing the spoke here comes a group of7 lined up like a trian with John Hamblin on the front. They were rolling. Now Stephen has to nurse home a bike that gets high speed wheel wobble and me. At mile 50 we get up the steep 18% pitch up to the the Parkway as I notice the legs are really starting to sting. With less than 8miles to go I cramp so hard I have to get off the bike. After stretching a bit was able to get back on and get back down to the Trap Hill Elementary school where we started. I Thanked Stephen for bring me in and meet up with Frank who was able to finish second to Kahn which is a tremendous effort for the day.
I talked to Paul and Julie who were using the event as training and they said they had a good day as well.
Once I got home and kicked up my heels I called Grant Lawyer who did the cat. 3 race in Reidsville. He told me about his event and Daryl's result then began to tell me about the Pro 1/2 race and how Jay Cox attacked out of the field and that John Hamblin , yes that is right the same one who came by us at Hurt, Pain and Agony towing a group like the engine of a train, joined Jay and Charlie Brown to lap the field. That really hurt my feelings. But it was a great result for Jay who would go onto finish 2nd in the Pro 1/2 race. The good thing about racing your bike there is always another day. See you on the road. Rodney
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