Monday, March 28, 2005
Lucas @ NORBA #2 Arizona
TT- 81st
STXC - 76th
XC - 72
Overall 69
Christian Leask
1:10 PM |
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Lucas & Travis Livermon, NORBA National - Texas
Travis - Jr. Expert
TT- 11th - Crashed and broke his helmet in 10 places
Short Track - 1st
Cross country - 3rd
Overall - 3rd
Lucas - PRO/U23
TT - 51st
Short Track - 58th
Cross Country - 47th
Overall U23 - 5th
Christian Leask
12:49 PM |
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SERC # 2 – Chickasaw Trace, TN - Race Report
SERC # 2 – Chickasaw Trace, TN - Race Report
For the first time this year we had a Mountain Team out in force, Dave Homansky, Mike Gann, Bill Feier, and I were all at one race.
Dave, Mike and I were in the Expert Vet 30-39 race and Bill was in the Sport 40-49 race.
Bill had a great race after a DNF last year Bill did a great job this year, riding hard to a 38-place finish in a very large field.
Dave, Mike and myself were all part of a crazy fast start with 30 other guys.
Dave had bad luck from the start, a leaking rear tire. This caused him to stop several times during the race to try to fix it. With that problem Dave limped to in to finish 25th out of 30 riders, not bad at all for his second expert race and a bad tire. Mike and I were having better luck up towards the front. Mike had a great start and was pounding away all day, especially thought the open fields. I had a poor start but moved up consistently, We were killing it, in the first 2 miles of the race we were already passing the back of the 19-29 group, they started 3 minutes ahead of us. I could see Mike through the race and every time I caught up to him so we could work together he would pass someone and I wouldn’t be able get around them for a while. I finally caught on to Mike and we worked together till the end of the race. Mike and I finished 9th and 8th respectively.
With my 7th in SERC #1 and 8th in #2 I’m in second overall in the series.
Tyler
Christian Leask
12:48 PM |
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Southeast Regional Championship #2 - Chickasaw Trace, TN
SERC # 2 – Chickasaw Trace, TN - Race Report
For the first time this year we had a Mountain Team out in force, Dave Homansky, Mike Gann, Bill Feier, and I were all at one race.
Dave, Mike and I were in the Expert Vet 30-39 race and Bill was in the Sport 40-49 race.
Bill had a great race after a DNF last year Bill did a great job this year, riding hard to a 38-place finish.
Dave, Mike and myself were all part of a crazy fast start with 30 other guys.
Dave had bad luck from the start, a leaking rear tire. This caused him to stop several times during the race to try to fix it. With that problem Dave limped to in to finish 25th out of 30 riders, not bad at all for his second expert race and a bad tire. Mike and I were having better luck up towards the front. Mike had a great start and was pounding away all day, especially thought the open fields. I had a poor start but moved up consistently, We were killing it, in the first 2 miles of the race we were already passing the back of the 19-29 group, they started 3 minutes ahead of us. I could see Mike through the race and every time I caught up to him so we could work together he would pass someone and I wouldn’t be able get around them for a while. I finally caught on to Mike and we worked together till the end of the race. Mike and I finished 9th and 8th respectively.
With my 7th in SERC #1 and 8th in #2 I’m in second overall in the series.
Tyler
Christian Leask
12:32 PM |
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Southeast Regional Championship #1
February 27th in Gainesville, FL it was the first race in the Southeast Regional Championship. Haile’s Trails are only open to the public a couple of times a year but I have this feeling that the Gainesville riders my hit it more that it’s open. It’s an awesome course in the dry but in the wet it’s very interesting. The trail runs in and around two old rock quarries. It rained from the time we got there on Saturday afternoon till we raced at 11:30 on Sunday. Then as if the race promoter knew that it would be more interesting if it stopped raining the sky dried up at the start of the second lap. The best things out of the race was I found an awesome wet/mud racing tire the Schwalbe Skinny Jimmy… Unbelievable amounts of traction, after the race I was thinking I could have pushed hard because I now know that that tire wont let me down. I’ll have a secret weapon at the next wet/mud race. I ended up in 7th place not bad for the start of the year.
Bill Feier had a rough start to his season, with out a good set of mud tires he was dead in the mud so after a long first lap he decided to bag it before he got hurt or broke something.
Tyler
Christian Leask
12:02 PM |
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Brooks Road Omnium – Race Report
What a tough weekend of racing! The weather was beautiful to look at but
brutal to race in. I didn't get to see all of the action, but here's what I
know (feel free to correct or add):
Saturday saw steady 20mph+ winds and gusts above 30mph. All most people could do was try to hide from the crosswinds...and most couldn't do that. Every category was cut down significantly. I think the P/1/2 field was cut in half. Russ and I made the final group and that's about all we could do.
The bright spot of the day was Lucas scoring 3rd in the Cat 3 RR, getting his CAT 2 upgrade points in the process. He even won the field sprint behind a 2-man break. Travis rode cover for him all day and still bagged 14th.
Joel and Lu made the tough selection in their races.
Sunday was a 4-corner Criterium with narrow streets and 2 small rises. Oh, and one ridiculously tight downhill off-camber corner. More on that later.
I can't begin to describe how fast the P/1/2 race was right from the start.
The field was strung out for hundreds of feet from the gun. Corner 3 proved to be a bottleneck, and after the first few riders went through on the brakes, big gaps started forming. After flatting on my warm-up laps, I started in the back of the pack (note: NEVER do this in a Criterium, I don't care if you have to skip your warm-up… starting in the back was instant death this day) and was immediately gapped by the riders in front. Trying to make up some ground, I got hot into turn 3 and, well, you know the rest (see Crash report) Russ rode a great race from start to finish. He put himself in the front early, where Charles and Ben should have been... Lesson learned!!!
Russ stayed in the top 5 all day, helping to form a 19-man select group. This group contained all of the strong men and pros, and Russ proved he is one of them by finishing 8th in a last lap drag race. Super job!
The Cat 3 race saw Travis pull away with 6 other riders to form the winning
break. They kept the heat on the entire race, and it there was never any doubt
about them staying away. Every time we saw Travis fly past the parking deck he was pulling... I hope you let somebody else work on the other side! Lucas and Bryan patrolled the front perfectly and kept the group in check. Travis nailed 4th in the sprint and got some more upgrade points. Awesome race.
The race I didn't see, and wish I did was the Cat 4 Criterium, cause I understand Joel scored 2nd! He'll be tearing up the 3s soon enough.
I know Lu made the cut again in the Masters Criterium, but I don't know those details either.
The TT times were pushed an hour, so I decided to head home to pick the
asphalt out of my rump. I hope everyone did well.
It was great seeing everybody. We have a great team and we're only going to
get better.
Christian Leask
11:49 AM |
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Monday, March 14, 2005
Crash / Race report - 3-14-05
I'm fine.
I have a really bad bruise on my hip/butt, but luckily it is covered by oozing scabs, so you can't really see it.
Nothing seems to be broken on the bike, but it sure is scraped up. The rear wheel that flatted (in the turn, not the one before the race...ughhh) took some abuse. I will probably have to work on the rim with some wet/dry sandpaper. The shifters look like they went through a meat grinder, but appear to work. The rear derailleur hanger is bent and the derailleur is scuffed up. Somehow the handlebars escaped injury, which is good because I sold them Friday!
The worst part of the ordeal however was the damage to my shoes (pimp, pearl-white DMTs). The right one was scraped up where the carbon meets the upper. Man, I love those shoes. They are (were?) the coolest shoes in the peloton.... and everyone knew it. I'm not convinced that the whole day wasn't actually a plot to mess up my shoes. You see....that was the first time all year that I have ridden them outdoors without shoe covers (breathe Brian). I saw all those jealous bastards looking at them when we warmed up. You think that flat 5 minutes before the race was an accident? Hell. Freakin. No. Made me start right in the back....where the irridescent pearly glow wouldn't get in their eyes. And what happened when I started closing gaps and nearly made it to the front group? Jackass honks on his brakes in front of me in turn 3 and sends me to the curb. Okay, so maybe I was going! too fast and lost traction and blew my tire BUT WHATEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I KNOW WHAT"S UP MAN!!!! STAY AWAY FROM MY SHOES!!!!!!!
Charles Rossignol
Christian Leask
4:28 PM |
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