[GW] [RE] [RE] St. Cloud race report B1

[Mark Alexander]

Hey all, 
It sure is great that so many rodents raced this
weekend! Thanks for the race reports. Good results and
a big top 5 for rodent Wheeler; scorchin'!! Rich, how
is that new fork treating you? Which fork did you get?
Hand ups and helmets for all...
Erik, I think it would be fun to preride the course.
Mon., Tues., or Fri. are good usually, the more lead
time the better. I,ve done a lot of mt. bike races,
and some cross races so that could help evaluate the
"new addition". Lemme know.
See you all soon,   PeaceM
--- Rich Bergstrom <oce_one at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> That was a brutal race for me. Heat and cyclocross
> don't mix well. I was in the lead group with Dan for
> the first couple laps, then I started to slowly
> slide backwards. I was really hot and I appreciate
> the water hand ups from Sara's Brian. 
> 
> I rolled in for something like 22nd of 67. Good race
> by all. 
> 
> See you at Hudson,
> 
> Rich
> 
> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:37:05 -0500
> To: gophers at mcf.net
> From: wheel027 at umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [GW] [RE] [RE] St. Cloud race report B1
> 
> 
> 
> Here I thought cyclocross season meant the return of
> long sleeves, hot
> coffee and a relaxing race atmosphere... Well, 1
> outta 3 was met
> yesterday at the Pork Chop CX.  Great to see our
> rodents out in
> force!  Bill and Lynne looked like consistent forces
> to be reckoned
> with in the C's.  Way to go!
> 
> 
> Lined up with Rich and I in the B's with Sara and
> Corey (we'll still
> claim her since she WAS wearing our colors) for the
> lady side - for a
> total of 67 riders.  Race started out moderately
> quick with winding
> in the grassy flats before the more technical
> sections (barriers,
> run-ups, descents, climbs).  I keep leaders in sight
> and am within
> the top 10 into the technical stuff. with Rich close
> behind.  Fly
> over barriers and up run-up and pick off riders
> until I am riding in the
> top 3 (lost Rich in this time period somewhere?). 
> Feeling good, but
> too hot and early in the season to push harder.  Let
> these 2 go and
> ride solo in 3rd for about a lap.  Get caught by 2
> strong guys and
> ride with them for another lap or so.  With 2 to go
> and nobody else
> even remotely close, I let go and am ecstatic to
> roll in for 5th! 
> 
> 
> 
> Skinnyski.com has some great photos of the GW gang
> in action (both C's
> and B's).  The C field was big and shows that cx is
> a growing and
> viable cycling discipline.  Come find out why
> everyone is trying
> it!  GW practice at Minnehaha Falls Park - 6PM
> (inclement weather
> encouraged, but severe weather/lightning cancels).
> 
> 
> Thanks for reading!  dw
> 
> 
> At 09:01 AM 9/24/2007, you wrote:
> 
> 
> Oh I forgot the
> most important thing....Kudos to my better half
> (Brian) and Lynne for
> doing handups for myself & other Gophers during the
> B race.  His
> commet post-race was, "Rich needed alot of water!"
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Sara
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Subject : [GW] [RE] St. Cloud race report Girlz B
> race
> 
> 
> Date : Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:54:53 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> 
> >From : "Sara Brokaw" <sara_brokaw at lycos.com>
> 
> 
> To : "Lynne" <lynne955 at yahoo.com>
> 
> 
> Cc : gophers <gophers at mcf.net>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Lynne Congrats on being the first Gopher this year
> to "do the
> double!"
> 
> 
> Yesterday was a bit warm, but everybody looked
> resplendent in the
> blue & orange!  I thought a short sleved skinsuit
> would be
> sufficiently cool, but it was not!  Chills post-race
> confirmed it
> was atypical Cx weather!
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> Last week mentally I wasn't quite ready for cx
> season to
> start...needed to be October or something.  An
> attempt at one final
> pitstop led Velo Bella to yell, "Sara they're
> starting!" 
> Skipped the final pitstop & raced to the line just
> in time for the
> field to depart!  Relief but I knew starting
> position can make or
> break ones race, and this is just how today was
> going!!
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> Just focused on watching the girlz in front of
> me....H-wood, IS Corp,
> superstar Jenna Zander, ND Linda were ahead, and
> girlz at the back
> consisted of 2 B-wood (including BWARC), Corey C,
> and myself.  A
> Dropped chain in front of me on the first runup lost
> a bit of momentum,
> but I just focused on hanging on to those in front. 
> Hadn't
> encountered the barriers redlined yet this year, but
> the first attempt
> over the double section went rather smoothly. 
> Bobbled a couple of
> the uphill remounts (post barrier) and had to run
> after coming to a
> complete stop. 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> Early on in the race, I passed Bwood#2, and she
> passed me back, so I
> just focused on staying close.  BWARC came by and
> again focused on
> staying close.  Bwood#2 went backwards after being
> passed by BWARC,
> and I just focused on BWARC, noticing that Corey was
> closing from
> behind.  Soon after the double barrier section, I
> passed BWARC and
> tried to focus on staying smooth.  
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 25 m before I saw 3 to go, the leaders came by,
> giving myself & a
> very relieved Loon State rider TWO to go!!  Now I
> just 
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