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

Many congratulations to Lizzard!!!!  Way to go!

Stan

-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Smith
Sent: Apr 11, 2012 1:54 PM
To: sccc_chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [sccc_chat] Re: Mark B's Re-Formed Message

Congrats, Mark! It was fun watching you at the feed zone for lap 2 -- you look good, climbing at the front.

Liz also took 2nd. It was a Velo Bella 1-2-3 sweep!!

--Wayne

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Bob Ward <bob_ward98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Cool ride, Mark!

 

This brought back many memories for me, as I raced Copperopolis since 1982 (it's first year) and rode it in 1984 (Olympic Trials qualifying race - had a good result...) and 1985 (Jock Boyer beat up on Bob Roll & Chris Huber... I was shelled out the back, with 70% of the field, on the first climb.... Ouch).

 

I raced five laps...  but I can't imagine racing this now... Great job!

 

Bob

From: stan stewart <sbstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: SCCC_Chat_Freelists <sccc_chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:17 AM
Subject: [sccc_chat] Mark B's Re-Formed Message

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
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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