'08 Elkhorn Classic is in the books!
The Veloforma women Rocked it!
Two stage wins and some really strong riding.
Short recap!!
Day one - Oregon trail road race. Pennington aka ROCKSTAR makes the break. They put 2:30 into the field Alice gets 3rd on the stage, but then finds out she was second! Due to yellow line infraction in the final sprint. Field sprint for 5th is taken by Tina!!! Sweet!!
Stage 2 Pleasant Valley Individual Time Trial. Not so pleasant when you have to go all out for 10miles and the last 4.5 have a headwind a you have to deal with a Farms truck that pulls in front of you twice, making you come to a complete stop!!! Then adding insult to injury having a water truck do the same. This happen to Becka and she still got 6th!!! It would have been another story if she had clear road!!! Needless to say this didn't help her get back time on GC.
Pennington Rocked an excellent TT to only lose 9 sec to 1st on GC.
Stage 3 Gold rush Criterium. ( Please see comments as this portion is miss leading) This was the portion of the stage race the made Elkhorn epic in one way or another. It happen to be rain and trying to corner on polished cement. Not a good combination to have. Needless to say about 20mins in to there 40min criterium they sky's opened up and the cement got wet, and BANG a rider goes down in turn one taking about 30 riders with her. They stop the race to line up again, then to cancel it. Susan Peithman is credited with the win and was also given a 3 sec advantage on the remaining field. So it is a legitimate win. Even if Susan just wanted to win it out right, with no technicalities. Best wishes to the Bob's rider that went down in the crit. She ended up breaking her pelvis, we wish you a speed recovery!!
SPECIAL THANKS - needs to go to Beverly Calder of BELLA market. With out Bev the women would not have gotten equal prize money! Thank you Beverly!! If you are ever in Baker City you must visit her shop. http://www.bellabackercity.com/
Stage 4 Dooley Mountain Road Race
This is the final grueling stage of Elkhorn. Only the truly hard finish it and only the Burly Win it.
100 miles and 8000 feet of climbing in the day. Guess who won the women's stage! Becka Hartkop!! Susan spent the first 30 miles on the front riding tempo, then Tina took over for the next 30, this did some major damage. Which gave us our second victory of the weekend. I hope it also made up for the tt frustration of the morning before. It's tough to say where she would of ended up on GC, due to the TT fiasco, but I guess that's racing. Alice stayed with first on GC to retain Second Over all!!
So how we ended up per stage:
1- Alice 2nd, Tina 5th, Becka 14th, Susan 21st, Miranda 27th
2- Becka 6th, Alice 8th, Tina 13th, Susan 16th , Mirada 17th
3- Susan 1st,
4- Becka 1st, Alice 7th, Tina 19th, Susan 24th
HOW WE ENDED ON GC.
W P/1/2 1 212 Barber Sarah Team Bobs-Bicycles.com 9:32:18.1 2nd 228 Pennington Alice Veloforma 9:32:30.63 205 Secrist Robin First Rate Mortgage 9:33:21.44 215 Stacher Ally Team Bobs-Bicycles.com 9:34:19.9 5th 223 Hartkop Becka Veloforma 9:34:28.06 208 Gillis Cara Organic Athlete 9:34:59.67 221 Gitlen Laurel Gentle Lovers 9:35:42.68 213 Gaertner Jenni Team Bobs-Bicycles.com 9:36:29.69 218 Zivin Julie Byrne Invent 9:36:42.210 217 Chandos Amy UC Davis USCF Cal Aggie Cyclis 9:36:59.211 230 Turnbull Lisa Team Group Health 9:38:24.012 203 Gonzalez-Ferrat Gabriela Bicycle John's SeriousCycling 9:39:02.413 201 Beall Allison Team Bobs-Bicycles.com 9:39:44.7 14th 220 Brubaker Tina Veloforma 9:40:23.315 211 Withrow Kelsey PCIM 9:42:02.216 224 Kunz Kori Poplollies 9:42:16.017 209 Thurston Emily Organic Athlete 9:43:32.618 216 Swan Izette Team Group Health 9:44:52.519 227 Nettles Elizabeth Avanti Racing 9:47:46.020 204 Crawford Kelly Bountiful Mazda Cycling Team9:50:14.121 222 Green Kristi DeSalvo Custom Cycles 9:50:54.122 207 Fournier Sami Organic Athlete 9:56:49.8 23rd 202 Peithman Susan Veloforma 9:58:21.824 210 Wangerin Jenn Organic Athlete 10:02:27.625 206 Walsh Martha First Rate Mortgage 10:07:56.826 219 Albrow Lynn 10:08:15.127 231 Valentin Sirikit Gentle Lovers 10:15:44.828 226 Morgan Lisa 10:17:46.2
2 comments:
I was the lead rider in crit, and I did not take out the rest of the field. I had a gap over the field, which proceeded to crash on their own because of the slippery conditions. Just wanted to clarify that. I was lying on the ground past the apex way before the other girls even started going down.
Allison - Sorry. Maybe a poor choice of words. But action, re-action comes to mind. I didn't mean to lay blame. We are all responsible for the control of our bikes, the wheel in front of us and our surroundings or at least knowing our surroundings. If we panic brake and fall down (which I feel everyone did) it's there fault. Not some one else. I do not feel you caused any crash or that you took out the field. You fell down, which is part of racing... the worst part in my book. Again sorry.
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