[sccc_chat] Re: Mark B's Re-Formed Message

You go girl... I need all my friends pulling together to beat this disease. 

Neil

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 11, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Liz Benishin <lizben1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Neil,
> 
> I need the training so I can beat the clock for you!!!
> 
> Liz
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Apr 11, 2012, at 2:50 PM, Neil Ross <laortho@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Pretty impressive Mark, and Liz.  1st race and a second place.
>> 
>> Neil
>> 
>> On Apr 11, 2012, at 11:17 AM, stan stewart wrote:
>> 
>>> I believe Mark B. meant to send this to the new chat list at 
>>> "sccc_chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx", but he accidentally mis-sent it to the Freelists 
>>> Mailing Manager.
>>> I tried to kludge it together per his original intent as the Mailing 
>>> Manager takes everything as a command and splits it up.
>>> 
>>> ***Be sure to send emails to "sccc_chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" when sending out to 
>>> everyone via the New SCCC Chat!
>>> Thanks all, Stan
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>> Reformed message from Mark B. at jmb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>>> 
>>> Okay here is an overdue lemonhead communication and race report. This year 
>>> I have been working on more speed events with fewer endurance events other 
>>> than the Death Ride and Gran Fondo which have become standards on my
>>> schedule. I miss seeing the Lemonheads as I have been doing fastergroup 
>>> rides, and race training.
>>> 
>>> Copperopolis was my first road race this year. Having only done a couple of 
>>> road races before, I am at the entry level, Cat 5 Masters 45+. I have to 
>>> say that the T, Th Morning Ride is faster than the Cat 5's. There
>>> was a field of about 20 riders in my group starting at 11:15 on a perfect 
>>> day.
>>> 
>>> The route is a 21 mile loop with rough roads, one big climb, a bunch of 
>>> rollers and a fast rough descent. The Cat 4, 5's do 2 laps, 1,2,3's do 3 
>>> laps and the 1,2 pro's do 5 laps (I can't imagine!) The first lap was slow. 
>>> I tried to stay off the front to conserve energy but it was hard, the group 
>>> was not well organized and few were willing to pull through. On the second 
>>> lap the pace picked up considerably. A skinny 145lb'er went off the front 
>>> on the big hill, I followed and was quickly in the "red". I decided to back 
>>> off and try and catch him with the help of the peloton. However, the group 
>>> was not fast enough and/or not willing to put in the work necessary to pull 
>>> him back, so he was gone. The rest of us were racing for 2nd place, I tried 
>>> to open up a gap on the rollers before the big descent but had no luck, 
>>> however the pace was strong and the group broke up. 5 of us descended 
>>> together leaving a field sprint to the finish. I gave it everything I had 
>>> with 250 meters to go on an uphill finish. I was happy to look back after 
>>> the finish line to see that I finished ahead of the others by a comfortable 
>>> margin. Bittersweet! Felt like a win, but let a guy go who finished first.
>>> 
>>> Next race: Wente
>>> 
>>> See you all on the road!
>>> 
>>> Mark
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>

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