San Pedro, States, Haircuts
Crazy busy week at work, so not a lot of extracurricular activity goin' on!
I never found a home for the $80 haircut, so if you are in the LA area and can find a home for this thing, drop me a note:
kdubenteprise at roadrunner.com
and I'll send it out to you.
Anyway, last weekend had lots of LA traffic fun involved. Saturday we threw down in San Pedro. When I first saw the course I was a wee bit sketched out - the last two turns (basically a sweeper 180) were downhill and off-camber. Not so bad when you actually rode it, though.
Pretty rough pavement, as there were plenty of bottles flyin' out of cages - first couple of laps I took a direct blast of orange sticky mess on the ol' sunglasses - ah, hell, who needs to see anyway, right! :-)
Wow, the first few laps of the M35+ race was pretty quick - drilled it good for the first 10 minutes and then it let up. I made sure I was near the front, as I didn't really want anything to do with those dual 180's while hanging out at the back.
Well, the race didn't exactly come back together as I had anticipated - couple of guys got away midway through it, and since the Cynergy boyz and the Central Coast Magazine boyz missed it, I figured it'd eventually be brought back (mark scott of Cynergy was in the field). Anyway, it didn't come back and 60 minutes later we drag raced down the slightly uphill 500m finishing stretch.
I missed gettin' a wheel out of the last corner (or, maybe I just got too impatient and left the one I was on...) and basically just drilled it to the line. 15th on the day according to the official results:
http://www.scnca.org/schedule2007.asp?category=Masters+35%2B&event=San+Pedro+Grand+Prix&rank=1
Sunday saw another trip to the LA area and the M35+ SCNCA district crit champs. Full field! Well over a hundred guys out there and they were turning people away at the registration table. Good thing I pre-registered!
I raced on this course a few years ago, and remembered that it was probably one of the easier courses I've pedaled on. I think I averaged like 150W or something in the three's race... This time around, I kept my nose up front and made sure I didn't miss anything. Huge group got away on this sucker but was eventually brought back with a lap or so remaining due to a huge effort by a single Cynergy rider (don't know his name). I saw this effort first hand, as I was sitting third wheel for the two laps that this guy sat on the front and reeled in a 10 man break.
Well, I should have been paying more attention, cuz, I got totally swamped as the break got absorbed and those dudes in the break "dropped anchor". Went from third wheel to twentieth wheel with one lap to go...
Sat up on the last corner.
Lots of doodz out there! Biggest masters field I've done thus far here in socal! I reckon it'll be a similar size field this weekend when I toe the line at the manhattan beach grand prix - giddy-up.
Here's a couple SRM screenshots for you data freaks:
the last 9 minutes of the San Pedro GP:
and the entire M35+ SCNCA crit champs effort:
I never found a home for the $80 haircut, so if you are in the LA area and can find a home for this thing, drop me a note:
kdubenteprise at roadrunner.com
and I'll send it out to you.
Anyway, last weekend had lots of LA traffic fun involved. Saturday we threw down in San Pedro. When I first saw the course I was a wee bit sketched out - the last two turns (basically a sweeper 180) were downhill and off-camber. Not so bad when you actually rode it, though.
Pretty rough pavement, as there were plenty of bottles flyin' out of cages - first couple of laps I took a direct blast of orange sticky mess on the ol' sunglasses - ah, hell, who needs to see anyway, right! :-)
Wow, the first few laps of the M35+ race was pretty quick - drilled it good for the first 10 minutes and then it let up. I made sure I was near the front, as I didn't really want anything to do with those dual 180's while hanging out at the back.
Well, the race didn't exactly come back together as I had anticipated - couple of guys got away midway through it, and since the Cynergy boyz and the Central Coast Magazine boyz missed it, I figured it'd eventually be brought back (mark scott of Cynergy was in the field). Anyway, it didn't come back and 60 minutes later we drag raced down the slightly uphill 500m finishing stretch.
I missed gettin' a wheel out of the last corner (or, maybe I just got too impatient and left the one I was on...) and basically just drilled it to the line. 15th on the day according to the official results:
http://www.scnca.org/schedule2007.asp?category=Masters+35%2B&event=San+Pedro+Grand+Prix&rank=1
Sunday saw another trip to the LA area and the M35+ SCNCA district crit champs. Full field! Well over a hundred guys out there and they were turning people away at the registration table. Good thing I pre-registered!
I raced on this course a few years ago, and remembered that it was probably one of the easier courses I've pedaled on. I think I averaged like 150W or something in the three's race... This time around, I kept my nose up front and made sure I didn't miss anything. Huge group got away on this sucker but was eventually brought back with a lap or so remaining due to a huge effort by a single Cynergy rider (don't know his name). I saw this effort first hand, as I was sitting third wheel for the two laps that this guy sat on the front and reeled in a 10 man break.
Well, I should have been paying more attention, cuz, I got totally swamped as the break got absorbed and those dudes in the break "dropped anchor". Went from third wheel to twentieth wheel with one lap to go...
Sat up on the last corner.
Lots of doodz out there! Biggest masters field I've done thus far here in socal! I reckon it'll be a similar size field this weekend when I toe the line at the manhattan beach grand prix - giddy-up.
Here's a couple SRM screenshots for you data freaks:
the last 9 minutes of the San Pedro GP:
and the entire M35+ SCNCA crit champs effort:
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