Berkeley Hills RR, or..."Damn, that hurt!"
Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2008
After another week of having my ass kicked by school, largely ignoring my bike (maybe 5 hrs this week before today if Im lucky) and a last minute SOS plea from work to come in and cover, I had officially decided that Berkeley Hills would not be in my best interest, and that I wasnt going. That was until the ride I had arranged for Dave called at 7 Sat. night and said he wasnt going. So against my better judgement I drug my sad sorry self out of the house with Dave in tow and headed to the east bay oh so early this mother's day morning to race. Logan was on hand, and Viktor made a brief appearance, but after trying to pay with a credit card and getting shot down, apparently took off before any of us could try and sort him out, so that made the squad myself, Logan and Dave for the day. And off we went...
After about three miles the signature Pat Briggs early move went, and as they usually come back quick enough my initial thought was to leave it but once one Nate English, followed by Taylor Kuphaldt from Davis joined the fun I figured it would be wise to have somebody there and followed suit, we had a few others along for a total of seven, and were joined after a half a lap by Jesse Moore of Cal Giant. At this point I was wondering if this early move was gonna come back after all, and after the first lap when we were joined by another 8 including Mike Sayers, Ozzy Olmos and a couple of other strong dudes, I knew that this was not the early move, but THE MOVE, and I was a bit worried.
From here I can make a long story short, I lasted till the 3rd time over momma bear, with Sayers, Moore, English, and Kuphaldt pushing the pace couldnt hack it and came off just behind a few other guys that couldnt take the heat either. From here I did almost 2 laps solo, catching a couple of guys, and being caught by a couple of guys, until...The last time up the climb I was caught by half of what was "the field", and then about 1k from the line the other half of "the field" to finish of those in the race at all, for 26th place.
Not so surprised to be honest, although given my recent lack of training it could have been a lot worse. Unfortunately I was the only of us three to finish making it not exactly a banner day for BPG. Sorry for the bad news, but on the bright side school is essentially over this week, and I feel confident that with a good block of training in me Ill be properly ready to "race" race again.
Hope everybody is having a good Sunday, see ya next time
Sean.
Oh yeah, and in case you were curious the places that matter went something like:
1. Nate English (damn, this kid is something else)
2. Jesse Moore
3. Taylor Kuphaldt
4. Mike Sayers
5. Ozzy Olmos
6. Jonathon Eropkin (him and Ozzy may be the other way around)
7. Mark Burnham
thats all i know for sure, later dudes
After about three miles the signature Pat Briggs early move went, and as they usually come back quick enough my initial thought was to leave it but once one Nate English, followed by Taylor Kuphaldt from Davis joined the fun I figured it would be wise to have somebody there and followed suit, we had a few others along for a total of seven, and were joined after a half a lap by Jesse Moore of Cal Giant. At this point I was wondering if this early move was gonna come back after all, and after the first lap when we were joined by another 8 including Mike Sayers, Ozzy Olmos and a couple of other strong dudes, I knew that this was not the early move, but THE MOVE, and I was a bit worried.
From here I can make a long story short, I lasted till the 3rd time over momma bear, with Sayers, Moore, English, and Kuphaldt pushing the pace couldnt hack it and came off just behind a few other guys that couldnt take the heat either. From here I did almost 2 laps solo, catching a couple of guys, and being caught by a couple of guys, until...The last time up the climb I was caught by half of what was "the field", and then about 1k from the line the other half of "the field" to finish of those in the race at all, for 26th place.
Not so surprised to be honest, although given my recent lack of training it could have been a lot worse. Unfortunately I was the only of us three to finish making it not exactly a banner day for BPG. Sorry for the bad news, but on the bright side school is essentially over this week, and I feel confident that with a good block of training in me Ill be properly ready to "race" race again.
Hope everybody is having a good Sunday, see ya next time
Sean.
Oh yeah, and in case you were curious the places that matter went something like:
1. Nate English (damn, this kid is something else)
2. Jesse Moore
3. Taylor Kuphaldt
4. Mike Sayers
5. Ozzy Olmos
6. Jonathon Eropkin (him and Ozzy may be the other way around)
7. Mark Burnham
thats all i know for sure, later dudes
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