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Now that I am back from Cyclocross Nationals and have gotten some rest it is time to write about the experience.  Folks have been asking me about the weekend, so I guess it is time to respond.  It is now time for you to hit the delete key if you are not interested  ;)

 

Before we even left for Rhode Island we knew that we would be in for a completely different racing experience than last year.  Some kind of extreme winter weather event had taken Providence a little by surprise and dumped snow, rain, and then more snow on the opening-day’s races.  The course became a slippery mess and the racing was epic.

 

This year’s forecast showed nothing but a few sprinkles in the forecast with 50 degree temperatures.  Great weather for spectating as well as racing!  When we arrived at the venue on Thursday afternoon the sun was shining and nothing more than arm and knee warmers were required to keep warm during our course inspection.  WOW!

 

To my surprise, the course was almost identical in design to last year’s.  The difference this year was that everything was rideable and, despite corners that were a bit slippery, it was going to be pretty fast.  Fun, if you were not racing the race of your entire training year!

 

All the masters raced on Friday, and my race (all women’s categories 40 and over) was the first of the event.  The weather was cloudy and foggy, the ground was a bit damp, but it was still going to be a fast race.  I was on the course at 7:15, and got three practice laps in before I headed over to the staging area.  Knee warmers and elbow covers were the only extra items that I wore.

 

The gun went off and we were underway.  My foot could not seem to find the pedal to click into, so I was a bit off the back until I got that situation under control.  We jumped from the pavement to the grass and the real aggressive racing began.  I moved myself into third, and held that until the first steep climb where I slid back to fifth.  NOT where I wanted to be.  I utilized the road section after a run-up of cement steps to move myself back into fourth and was soon on the wheel of the woman in front of me. 

 

She and I had a fight going on for the rest of that lap.  I tried to figure out how to get ahead of her, as she was doing everything possible to keep me from passing.

I used an enormous amount of power to pass her on the next road section and opened up a substantial gap.  She caught me on the next run-up!  I passed her after remounting at the top, sliding between her and a tree so that I could be the first person down the steep hill which followed.  I got my gap, and put in another huge effort on the road to the finish line.

 

OK, that was only lap one.  I had three more to go!  Lap two was even harder because I was not only playing keep-away, but I was trying to catch second place as well.  And second place was trying to catch first!  The course wrapped around itself enough that you could often see where your competition was, and I was holding my own during that second lap.  I would try to ride as fast and as clean as possible on the technical sections and then would bury myself on the three pieces of road.  It was a good thing that I had my Power Tap wheel on to keep me pushing at my ultimate hardest.  The interval sessions that I had done preceding this race were all coming in handy right now, both for the physical benefit and the emotional.  I just kept telling myself I could suffer more.

 

As the race wore on I pulled away from fourth place fairly steadily.  However, second place was pulling away from me at about the same rate.  I continued to push hard, though, because you never know when someone is going to have a physical or mechanical problem.  Good luck is the combination of opportunity and preparedness, and I wanted to be prepared!

 

The race ended before anyone had mechanicals, though.  I held on to my hard-earned third place, comforted by the fact that I had been beaten by two former Cyclocross National Champions.  The woman who won – Kathy Sarvary – is truly a strong cross racer.  In the Pro woman’s race two day’s later she was 38 out of 72 finishers.  Not bad for woman who’s racing age next year will be 50!  I beat women who have beaten me in the past, too.  In fact, the woman who came in fifth was the silver medalist last year.

 

Other racers that day were not so lucky.  Karl Faruzel, our area’s King of Kross, crashed during his second lap and landed hard on the pavement.  He fractured his hip and was taken to the hospital in Providence, where they operated on him yesterday.  He sounded pretty good on the phone when I talked with him last night, but he will have an uphill battle for a while.  But knowing Karl he will pull off a great recovery and come back in great Kross style next year.

 

Other Central New York Crossers raced as well.  Mark Williams, Tim Leonard, Anna Barensfeld and Mark Shenstone were there and all raced great races against big fields.  And junior Ben Salibra had a great race in his first-ever National Championship.  He had never even seen Cyclocross until September and did his first race in October.  He start number had him seeded way in the back, but he passed a lot of guys to finish in the position he did.  Way to go Ben!

 

One of the benefits of going to Cyclocross Nationals is watching the Pros race.  Saturday afternoon featured the U23 race, followed by the Pro men, and we watched both races before driving home.  The day was sunny and breezy, the combination drying up the course so that it resembled a dry field on a summer day.  These two races were blisteringly fast and amazing to watch.  I got several pointers for my next life – if I come back reincarnated as a Pro Man.

 

So now I am feverishly trying to catch up on my work as I also attempt to finish up Christmas preparations.  What a silly time to have a Nationals!   But that is the way the Christmas cookie crumbles.  Anyway, thank you to everyone who has supported and encouraged me throughout this cycling season, and congratulations to everyone who participated in Cyclocross this season.  Tell your friends next year that it is the greatest sport going and get them started.  It is a GREAT way to pass the fall.

 

Happy Holidays! 

 

Take care,

Margaret

 

Karls's Greene race made the Velonews roundup!! Holy crap! It mentions our Dave Panella race as the season finale! Bring you cow bell and join the fun!

 

 

We could use a few volunteers, registration, general helpers. And  because of the registration boom, any donation of complimentary bread or crackers to go with chili for the participants would be great.

Cookies perhaps? It appears that any cookies that might have been left over from Karl's race were eaten by me! Ha! Willpower is beautiful thing!

 

Chili makers.....crockpots would be the best thing, although I have a small gas stove. Chef Mike will be using it.

 

Many thanks to all!!!!

Paul

 

 

Thank you to my fellow teammates and racers for making sure I was OK yesterday.  After I slid out in front of the entire women's field only a half mile into yesterday's cyclocross race in Greene, just about everyone stopped to make sure I was OK.  Especially concerned were fellow Mission in Motion teammates, but I guess seeing me get T-boned by Liz Carrington (I'm sorry for crashing you out Liz!) caused them some concern.  Kim Celecki, Tamara Lewis and Michelle Costello all stopped and then restarted after I yelled that I was OK.  I could not persuade Marsha Kapinus or Liz to go on, though, and they both made sure that all my limbs were functioning.  The three of us limped back to the start line. 

 

Race official Dawn Fox was kind enough to put Marsha and Liz back into the race one lap down.  I got to watch the rest of the race, which was cool.  Everyone in the women's field took the time to ask if I was OK as they went through the S/F area, with Karla Eische making double sure that race officials knew about the accident before she saw me standing there.  What an impressively compassionate group of competitors.

 

The race was great to watch, especially with the twists and turns that abounded in the field before the S/F area.  The women all turned their turbo chargers on and were out there working really hard, even though their start -- and the order that they restarted -- had gotten completely messed up.  As both a coach and a competitor I was so very impressed.

 

As for me, I have one heck of a backache today, and will see my chiropractor this afternoon.  And my brains remain a bit scrambled.  I am hoping that my appointment this morning with Mackay Rippey, my acupuncturist, will help with that and with my back.  I'm not sure if I will be racing at the Dave Panella Memorial on Sunday, but if not I will still be there to cheer everyone on and to help out.

 

Again, everyone, thanks for putting your own races on the back seat yesterday and coming to my aid.  Thanks too to Karl for promoting a super race and getting me (and many others!) into this silly sport.  And if I missed thanking someone, I do apologize.  I'll just blame it on my scrambled brains.

 

Ride on!

Two Mimsters showed up to do battle at the third race in the NYCROSS series Stephentown Cyclocross on Saturday -- myself and Tammy Lewis.  And it did not take long to find out that due to the course and weather conditions the "cyclo" part of the sport would be in short supply.   We were wondering why we even needed a bike!

 

Gary and Pamela Toth graciously opened up their home and their beautifully wooded yard to promote this race.  They laid out the course during Friday's sunshine, and although it had parts that were rather rocky, it looked to be a different but fun cyclocross race.  They swore it was completely rideable.

 

Mother Nature had other ideas.  Friday night it poured rain, and the rain and wind continued all day Saturday.  Races started at 9:15, with the C race, Master men's race and the B men's race all taking place before the Elite women and junior race started at 12:30.  The course was a rocky soupy holey mess by the time we got to the start line.

 

Tammy and I lined up with two other women -- CBRC's Jenny Ives, who was tied with me for second place in the series, and Hannah Walton, who won the bronze medal at the 2005 National Championships for the 17-18 women.  A small but strong field.  Jenny and I were tied for second place in the series, with series first place not present at the race.  My goal was to continue to amass good points in the NYCROSS series.

 

The gun went off and Tammy flew into the lead.  She had a mountain bike, and was hoping that its greater gear range would assist her up the long climbs that we with cyclocross bikes would have to run.  And it seemed to be working.  In her wake I was doing my best to ride everything, getting into my competitors' way in the process.  It did not take long for Jenny to run by Hannah and me, though, so Hannah and I got off our bikes and headed to the deep mud at the base of first long run-up.

 

Also at the base of the run-up was Tammy, trying to dig her dropped chain out of the narrow space between her chainring and her frame.  She was struggling.  Jenny took off up the hill with  Hannah not far behind.  I felt like I had leaden shoes and could only muster a determined walk as they scurried away. 

 

At the top of the hill was the only spot that was flat and without rocks.  Of course, it had two New England sized barriers, and by the time I got to them  Jenny was completely out of sight.  Hannah and I were going back and forth, but she got ahead of me in another sloppy section.   As I struggled to move forward, trying to remount, Tammy came up behind me and rode by as well.  Ugh, I was having a terrible time.  But at least I was able to ride down the greasy descent, and was keeping Tammy and Hannah in sight.  One cheering fan reminded  me that THIS was my game -- 'cross! -- but I felt like a fish out of water.

 

Things got worse for me.  In the second lap, as I tried to shoulder my bike at the foot of the longest run-up, I tripped and fell.  The bike, halfway onto my shoulder, somehow came around and chainringed me in the back.  How rude!  I scrambled up, totally dropped, and pushed forward hard. 

 

Over the barriers again, with hoards (it seemed like) of screaming fans.  Encouraging me to go on.  OK guys, I wanted to say, this is not as easy as it looks!  But I kept moving forward, hoping to at least narrow the distance between myself and my competitors. I got my act together, cleaned up what riding I was doing, and started running more and slogging less.  From my former vantage point behind the Tammy and Hannah, I could see that in certain places it was faster to run or walk than to ride. 

 

Before I knew it (ok, eventually...) I was catching up with Tammy and Hannah.  The three of us stayed close together and I remember crossing the barriers hearing one guy exclaim how exciting this race was to watch.  We were really pushing each other!

 

On the other side of the barriers was another greasy rocky climb that had dissolved into a run-up sometime during the day's first race.  On our second to last lap the three of us were now all next to each other.  I gave it all I was worth and got ahead on the rocky run-up.  By now I knew what lines I could ride at the section at the top and then down the greasy descent, but everyone would know what that was by now.  I rode as hard as I could at the top and let it all hang out on the descent.

 

But the going was not all smooth for me.  After I had established a gap I fell running over the big pile of rocks, and I could not figure out how to untangle myself and bike and stand back up to walk!  It seemed like an eternity, but when I looked back I still did not see anyone there. 

 

Last lap.  Ugh, my legs and lungs.  I was going hard in hopes of catching Jenny, but I never saw her.  But at least with a second place finish to her we would be assured of a duel royale at the series final.  Surprisingly, I did some of my best riding and running of the race on that last lap.  Maybe because I knew that the pain was almost over.  Crossing the line, I was relieved to be there.  About a minute and a half later Tammy crossed the line, and Hannah finished about a minute behind her.  We were all thrilled that the mud slog was over.  Everyone had raced so hard.

 

In retrospect, it was almost fun.  It was great training for any races coming up, because surely none of them would contain as much running as this one did.  Great mental training, just being able to sort out what would work the best for each part of an ever-changing course.  This will suit me well for Nationals!

 

As for Tammy, I am sure that if she had not had issues with her bicycle her early flier would have been something for all of us to reckon with.  She got such a gap right away, and having smaller gearing to ride up the long climb would have been great!  This was her first race and I know that she will be back.  Watch out everyone!

 

Another weekend of 'cross.  Time to get rested for next week.  I'm just hoping those courses will be more rideable :)