OBRA Team Time Trial Championships happened in Corvallis, Oregon. Under cloudy sky's and very little wind. Conditions seemed to be fast this year. Times were a lot lower than in years past. So I'm going with fast conditions on top of teams just going good for all the great times!!
Veloforma fielded two teams. Our elite squad (Tina, Becka, Susan, and Miranda) and Team DEVO - Laura, Eva, Carrie, and Jen. (aka our development squad). Both squads rocked it. I was really impressed with how well DEVO rode. I made them ride ironman style (no aero equipment) and we did a mix of 2 -cat4's and 2 - cat3's. They posted and excellent time of 1:12:36 for second place in the women's Cat3's. With how well they rode this year, it's going to be a tough inner squad battle for next years victory, plus ttt squad selections!!!
Carrie, Eva, Jen and Laura getting there medals!!!!!
The elite squad used the motivation of trying to catch Devo. Plus the fact that Tim "hitman" Hittner mentioned that they would get a Steak dinner of there choice if they broke 1 hour!!! The elite squad caught every women's team out on course and posted a winning time of 1:05:07. This time actually put them high in a lot of men's fields and placed them 33rd out of 70 teams.
Tina (showing what fuels us - ZYM), Becka, Miranda and Susan!!!Below I am demonstrating our extreme aero position.
Ok - on to Silverton Road Race. Great course, great promoter, = fun time!! This should be a must do on your list for "hard person" style races. This race was also an Oregon Cup event so a lot was on the line. Doing the TTT the day before, the girls knew they still had to perform. It was race # 5 in the 7 race series. We had fresh legs in Alice Pennington so we knew we had something to give and give it we did... Alice and Becka countered an attack by Jennie Slawta on lap two to ride away from the field.
This attack split the field hard. It left Tina a little isolated with no team members present in the chase group. Miranda and Susan feeling the pain of the hills and the suffer fest of the day before were in a 5 person group a few minutes back. Tina did damage control following wheels and making sure Kori Kunz "poplollies"stayed put. Kori put in alot of attacks on the last lap trying to crack Tina but "Earthquaker" wouldn't budge.
Tina - always in control.
Susan and Miranda in the 5 person chase group. Shout out to Stephanie Chase for racing in loaner shoes about 5 sizes to big (she's the ironclad girl on the right of the picture above) I bet the feet and such ended up being a little sore. What a trooper!
So to wrap things up Becka and Alice stay away till the end. Alice gets the win, and Becka gets 2nd. Next group in Jenny Slawta jumps Tina and Kori for 3rd. Kori 4th and Tina 5th.
Oregon Cup standing with two races left.
1 Rebecka Hartkop Veloforma 346
2 Tina Brubaker Veloforma 310
3 Kori Kunz Poplollies 292
4 Alice Pennington Veloforma 240
5 Heather Clark Bend Bike 'N Sport 165
6 Christi Binstadt Poplollies 140
7 Jenny Slawta Team Landshark 105
8 Molly Wheeler Team Landshark 105
9 Jill Howe Poplollies 91
10 Erin Playman Gentle Lovers 80
Rock star will be at the last two events, so the top 3 is going to mix it up a little. The next OC event is Mt. Tabor on June 15th. This will be the first race back for Hilary Billington after her bought with pneumonia. We are super stoked to have her healthy and be back in action. So we will be given it! As the girls always do!!! The last race is in Bend Oregon and part of the High Desert Omnium on August 3rd we have something special in store on this day, so stay tuned, it's going to make for fun times.
Thanks for reading.
Cheers
Mark
1 comment:
you have got to get those girls shoe covers. They're all dialed in on kits, bikes, helmets. Shoe covers are soooo pro.
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