Masters Natz - RESULTS?

Well - now that the tour is over it's time to change focus to the week
of the fatties. Early reports say that my teammates picked up a
couple jerseys in the TT Events. RBR's own (and my teammate) Suz
Weldon destroyed the womens field (not sure of her age group) for her
gold. In the mixed Tandem 90+ (I think) is was Rick Lilleberg and
Leslie Mittendorf taking home the gold.

I also heard that local legend Glenn Bunselmeyer won the TT and tandem
TT (probably with Larry Shannon). Not much surprise there.

-a (not yet 30)

"Andrew Martin" wrote in message
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Well - now that the tour is over it's time to change focus to the week
of the fatties. Early reports say that my teammates picked up a
couple jerseys in the TT Events. RBR's own (and my teammate) Suz
Weldon destroyed the womens field (not sure of her age group) for her
gold. In the mixed Tandem 90+ (I think) is was Rick Lilleberg and
Leslie Mittendorf taking home the gold.

I also heard that local legend Glenn Bunselmeyer won the TT and tandem
TT (probably with Larry Shannon). Not much surprise there.

Thurlow "Turbo" Rogers waxed all of us with a 50:4X to win the 40-44 age
group. As you said, Bunselmeyer won the 45-49 age division, and (surprise,
surprise) Kent Bostick won the 50-54 with a mid-52 clocking.

Me, I hit a small stone and flatted with ~5 miles to go. :-(

Andy Coggan

"Andy Coggan" wrote in message
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"Andrew Martin" wrote in message
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Well - now that the tour is over it's time to change focus to the week
of the fatties. Early reports say that my teammates picked up a
couple jerseys in the TT Events. RBR's own (and my teammate) Suz
Weldon destroyed the womens field (not sure of her age group) for her
gold. In the mixed Tandem 90+ (I think) is was Rick Lilleberg and
Leslie Mittendorf taking home the gold.

I also heard that local legend Glenn Bunselmeyer won the TT and tandem
TT (probably with Larry Shannon). Not much surprise there.

Thurlow "Turbo" Rogers waxed all of us with a 50:4X to win the 40-44 age
group. As you said, Bunselmeyer won the 45-49 age division, and (surprise,
surprise) Kent Bostick won the 50-54 with a mid-52 clocking.

Me, I hit a small stone and flatted with ~5 miles to go. :-(






That's the Sure Indicator of the Masters Fattie, making excuses.




K. Gringioni


ps. I lost the Speedo bet because of a flat. I was going good too.

"Mark Fennell" wrote in message
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nice race report snipped


Results:
1. Henry Chang, RBR 1:50:19
2. Chris Hahn, Labor Power s.t.
3. Chris Walker, VeloRPM :01
4. Richard Meeker, USPS 1:23
5. Thurlow Rogers, JAX s.t.







I hope all you Dumbasses appreciate that I wore my rec.bicycles.racing
jersey.


Many thanks to Jeff Jones for finally coming through with the Pot Belge. It
was instrumental in getting the BMI down for this event.





K. Gringioni
rbr Masters National Champion

Most excellent indeed.


Mark Fennell wrote:

(Andrew Martin) wrote in message . com...
Well - now that the tour is over it's time to change focus to the week
of the fatties.

9 August 2003

Louisville, KY (AP) – In what many observers called the most
competitive Masters race in recent memory, Henry Chang of San Diego,
CA won today's 2003 National Road Race Championship in the 40-44
division. After 80 grueling kilometers, the race came down to a break
of three, with Chang outsprinting companions Chris Walker and Chris
Hahn, both of Santa Barbara CA. Completing a California sweep of the
top-5 places were former professional racer Thurlow Rogers and Richard
Meeker of the USPS Masters team.

The action began immediately with time-trial specialists Andrew Coggan
and Eric Sternlict attacking on the first lap of the ten-lap race.
Within 10 km they had established a 50 second gap as none of the
pre-race favorites were willing to chase. Former 7-11 professional
Michael Carter stated "I raced the Tour de France. I'll be damned if I
was going to pull a bunch of nobodies up to the break."

For the next two laps, individual riders made sporadic efforts to
bridge but none could get more than half way across to the smooth
riding duo of Coggan and Sternlict. That is, until Chris Walker hit
the front and pulled at 50 kmh for five minutes. Only four riders
could hold Walker's wheel--Hahn, Rogers, Meeker, and Chang--and a 30
second gap was quickly established over the shattering field.

The group of five quickly caught and dropped the tiring early break.
By the fifth lap they had nearly four minutes on the field and it was
clear the winner would be one of the five.

Then with 20 km to go, Chang abruptly stopped pulling. Numerous
attempts to cajole him back into the rotation failed. As Hahn said
afterward, "I yelled at him to pull through but he just looked back at
me kind of sideways and said, 'Dumbass, I'm a sprinter. Shut up and
pull'. I guess he said it so authoritatively that we just continued to
pull him along even though I realize now it made no sense!"

As they rode through the start-finish area to begin the bell lap, it
became evident that Chang's negativity had permeated the rest of the
break. Meeker had stopped pulling and Rogers had repeatedly taken him
off the back during the prior lap. Walker, ever the sharp tactician,
saw an opportunity to shed two of his main rivals. He attacked
mercilessly on a small rise as Rogers and Meeker dangled five seconds
behind. Walker's pace was so high that his ever-present, hanging
string-of-snot whipped around and slapped Chang in the face. It was
now a race of three.

As the trio entered the final kilometer, Walker ramped up the pace
hoping to crack the two sprinters, or, at least, to remove some of
their snap. It didn't work. Hahn jumped at 300 meters and quickly
passed Walker. Hahn recounted the sprint later, "I wound it up quickly
to 65 kph. I looked under my arm at about 150 meters and saw Walker
hanging tough on my wheel but I couldn't see Chang at all. I thought
he must have blown big time. I knew Walker couldn't come back around
as fast as I was going so I thought I had the vee. Then, out of
nowhere seemingly, Chang was beside me. He was actually grinning at me
all the way to the line." Video replay confirmed it, Chang had won by
a tire width.

Immediately after the finish, all 18 fans in attendance mobbed the
ebullient winner. Chang gushed to nobody in particular, "I feel
vindicated by this great victory. I've been preaching to the masses
about the virtues of low body mass for bike racing, especially for
anyone wanting to race at this high level. Once I got my BMI below
that of Chris Walker, I knew I would be competitive. Plus, I used to
race as a cat 2 in Southern California crits, so I knew I could sprint
with any of these guys. I'm very pleased. Dumbasses, all of them."

Results:
1. Henry Chang, RBR 1:50:19
2. Chris Hahn, Labor Power s.t.
3. Chris Walker, VeloRPM :01
4. Richard Meeker, USPS 1:23
5. Thurlow Rogers, JAX s.t.

On 4 Aug 2003 18:49:38 -0700, Mark Fennell wrote: the POTM.

(Mark Fennell) wrote in message . com...
(Andrew Martin) wrote in message . com...
Well - now that the tour is over it's time to change focus to the week
of the fatties.

9 August 2003

Louisville, KY (AP) ? In what many observers called the most
competitive Masters race in recent memory, Henry Chang of San Diego,
CA won...

As the trio entered the final kilometer, Walker ramped up the pace
hoping to crack the two sprinters, or, at least, to remove some of
their snap. It didn't work. Hahn jumped at 300 meters and quickly
passed Walker. Hahn recounted the sprint later, "I wound it up quickly
to 65 kph. I looked under my arm at about 150 meters and saw Walker
hanging tough on my wheel but I couldn't see Chang at all. I thought
he must have blown big time. I knew Walker couldn't come back around
as fast as I was going so I thought I had the vee. Then, out of
nowhere seemingly, Chang was beside me. He was actually grinning at me
all the way to the line." Video replay confirmed it, Chang had won by
a tire width.

Brilliant. If only Coggan could write posts as interesting
as this!

Chang is now skinnier than Chris Walker?? Wow.

Immediately after the finish, all 18 fans in attendance mobbed the
ebullient winner. Chang gushed to nobody in particular, "I feel
vindicated by this great victory. I've been preaching to the masses
about the virtues of low body mass for bike racing, especially for
anyone wanting to race at this high level. Once I got my BMI below
that of Chris Walker, I knew I would be competitive. Plus, I used to
race as a cat 2 in Southern California crits, so I knew I could sprint
with any of these guys. I'm very pleased. Dumbasses, all of them."

Results:
1. Henry Chang, RBR 1:50:19
2. Chris Hahn, Labor Power s.t.
3. Chris Walker, VeloRPM :01
4. Richard Meeker, USPS 1:23
5. Thurlow Rogers, JAX s.t.

Congrats again Henri.

-Ken

Louisville hosted a pretty good nats, from what I heard, although at least one
VERY strong 50+ rider got laid out by a MTB rider while checking out the
ultra-technical park RR venue. Poor David Leduc, who almost undoubtedly would
have cleaned clock in the RR like he did in the crit, got knocked down by an
errant knobby head, ending up in the hospital with broken ribs and other
internal stuff.
His Mercy Teammate, Randy Parker, didn't live up to his team's name, laying
waste in the 45+ RR, neatly following up on last year's 40+ crit demolition.
For these old but fast guys (both of whom are far leaner than H Chang will ever
be): There's always next year, when Louisvile will host em again.

Thurlow ****ed off at least one rider: Dave Grice, of Asheville, who had the
SECOND fastest TT of the Nats. But, he was also in the 40+ group, and was thus
denied a Gold. Next up for Grice (who trains more hours than many Pros despite
his job as a VP of investments for a large Firm and his burgeoning family):
Master's World's. Maybe the Pros will stay away from that one.

As for myself, rather than drive the 3 hours to Louisville for the 35+
shenanigans, I was on a hardcore weight loss regimen in the North Cascades, on
the Ptarmigan Traverse. Amazing how carrying all of your food for six days'
backcountry fun and sun whilst climbing assorted sizes and shapes of rock and
ice will shell off the LB's.
Only fell in one crevasse the whole time. Lucky for me, my large bike racing
hiney kept me from going all the way in...

Greg

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Gringioni wrote:

"Bikerecker" wrote in message
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For these old but fast guys (both of whom are far leaner than H Chang
will
ever
be):



Dumbass -

The Masters racers who are good aren't Fat.

On average though, they are 15-20 lbs. fatter than the average Senior
1/2
rider.

That sounds like apples and oranges. The "average" master (cat
1,2,3,4,5) isn't as fit as the average Sr 1/2 but the masters who are
good aren't fat.



Dumbass -

Most of the masters aren't good.

Bikerecker wrote:

Louisville hosted a pretty good nats, from what I heard, although at least one
VERY strong 50+ rider got laid out by a MTB rider while checking out the
ultra-technical park RR venue. Poor David Leduc, who almost undoubtedly would
have cleaned clock in the RR like he did in the crit, got knocked down by an
errant knobby head, ending up in the hospital with broken ribs and other
internal stuff.

Crashing is no excuse for sucking. At least, I think that's what a burnout
would say.