8th For Adam, 6th For Guttenplan
Adam catches us up on his weekend in New Hampshire:
On Saturday, I opted to stay close to home to take a break from travel, get some training in before Philly week, and race a local New England classic, the Lake Sunapee Bike Race in New Hampshire.
The race has been around for 35 years, and follows a 23 mile loop around Lake Sunapee, finishing at the top of the climb to the Mt. Sunapee ski area. The p/1/2 race did 3 laps, so it was a good distance to be able to get some hard, hilly racing in.
There were lots of attacks, but it was difficult to make anything stick in the first circuit where many of the riders were still fresh enough to chase moves down on descents, but not strong enough to really counterattack. On the second lap, a number of individual riders snuck away one at a time. Any move by me elicited a strong reaction by the field, so I opted to watch and wait for my chance. Eventually the individuals connected and turned into a strong breakaway.
On the final lap, the Mechanical Services/Cycle Mania team put their riders on the front in an attempt to bring the move back, with some help from NorEast Cycling. It was clear the break wasn't coming back fast enough, though. On the final climb of the day, I opted to try to split the field, since attacking only meant I'd end up alone and not making any progress. I was able to drive it from the bottom to top, bringing 6 guys clear including Al Donahue from Team Nerac, and we were finally gone and in pursuit of the break.
It was a good move, but too little, too late. On the final climb to the finish, we picked up the tail end of riders who had been dropped from the break. I won the "sprint" up the climb from our group, just catching another rider from the break on the finish line but not getting by him, to finish 8th.
It was an ok result on a course that doesn't suit me, and was encouraging for the hard races we have coming up in the next two weeks.
Results here:
http://www.bikereg.com/Results/2008/05/17-Lake-Sunapee-Bike-Race.asp
David Guttenplan is hard at work far down the East Coast from Adam in Florida:
I placed 6th in the Florida State Criterium Championship on Sunday May 18th. Obviously, nothing special but I road aggressive and made the break of 5 that went in the first few laps with 2 Toshiba-Santos and the other 2 big teams. We got caught by a few guys with a few laps to go, and I missed one of the many counters eventually getting third out of a group of 13 on the hard uphill sprint. I rode 2.5 hard hours home after the hot crit champs to prepare for Philly with another 6 hour hard ride tomorrow...
On Saturday, I opted to stay close to home to take a break from travel, get some training in before Philly week, and race a local New England classic, the Lake Sunapee Bike Race in New Hampshire.
The race has been around for 35 years, and follows a 23 mile loop around Lake Sunapee, finishing at the top of the climb to the Mt. Sunapee ski area. The p/1/2 race did 3 laps, so it was a good distance to be able to get some hard, hilly racing in.
There were lots of attacks, but it was difficult to make anything stick in the first circuit where many of the riders were still fresh enough to chase moves down on descents, but not strong enough to really counterattack. On the second lap, a number of individual riders snuck away one at a time. Any move by me elicited a strong reaction by the field, so I opted to watch and wait for my chance. Eventually the individuals connected and turned into a strong breakaway.
On the final lap, the Mechanical Services/Cycle Mania team put their riders on the front in an attempt to bring the move back, with some help from NorEast Cycling. It was clear the break wasn't coming back fast enough, though. On the final climb of the day, I opted to try to split the field, since attacking only meant I'd end up alone and not making any progress. I was able to drive it from the bottom to top, bringing 6 guys clear including Al Donahue from Team Nerac, and we were finally gone and in pursuit of the break.
It was a good move, but too little, too late. On the final climb to the finish, we picked up the tail end of riders who had been dropped from the break. I won the "sprint" up the climb from our group, just catching another rider from the break on the finish line but not getting by him, to finish 8th.
It was an ok result on a course that doesn't suit me, and was encouraging for the hard races we have coming up in the next two weeks.
Results here:
http://www.bikereg.com/Results/2008/05/17-Lake-Sunapee-Bike-Race.asp
David Guttenplan is hard at work far down the East Coast from Adam in Florida:
I placed 6th in the Florida State Criterium Championship on Sunday May 18th. Obviously, nothing special but I road aggressive and made the break of 5 that went in the first few laps with 2 Toshiba-Santos and the other 2 big teams. We got caught by a few guys with a few laps to go, and I missed one of the many counters eventually getting third out of a group of 13 on the hard uphill sprint. I rode 2.5 hard hours home after the hot crit champs to prepare for Philly with another 6 hour hard ride tomorrow...
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