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Cyclocross UCI3 Cincinnati Cyclocross Festival

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UCI3 Cincy3 Cincinnati Cyclocross Festival will bill be here in less than 2 weeks! Get ready, get rad, get stoked! Top pros will be in town raging through our local CX courses in Covington KY, Middletown and Fairfield OH.

sdenek stybar catching air

Sdenek Stybar Rad Air Power

This pic of Stybar just makes me want to go out and get rad. So much power!

Hungarians have been out representing at all of the OVCX race series… The racing is intense and the fields are bigger than ever. Although none of us have been on the podium, we’ve had really great results. Chewning’s been top 20 most Elite Races, Jamie and Billy have broken into the top 10 for Cat 4 35+Races. Tall Tom, Medium Tom and Starr have been battling it out against each other for Cat 4 top 20 finishes. James has had two top 5 finishes in Cat 3 35+. Hardball has been layin’ it down with a few top 10 spots in Cat 3. Hardball has made it to every OVCX race and is in 3rd place overall!!! Stinky is gettin’ rad on SS racing and I think has a 4th place finish in there. I believe Blair has gotten her share of top 10′s. Unfortunately, powerhouse Pardi has been out all season with his naggin’ knee and Lesbi-Anne has a new cross bike but is still out from her broken collarbone from the Mainstrasse Crit.

 

2011 St Leons Road Race…

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this is what i know, all of it. chewning couldn’t go for 3 victories in a row because he got sick this week… get well slumberjack!
zach was in the cat 4 breakaway and said his sprint attack went out a little too early and he died before crossing the line. he got sucked back into 8th place. top 10 zach!


anne felt really strong, but is being plagued by a tight/sore back and hip stuff. she started cramping up and feeling like she was swimming in molasses going up the last hill of the women 1/2/3. she said the grrls she normally hangs with just rode away from her as she limped into the home stretch. luckily at the MOBO event she won a visit to an accupuncturist and masseus!


hardball finished in the teens. best  road race placement this year! much better than last week when he threw up on lap three trying to inhale a cliff bar.


doc flatted… he sure looked good with those random arm-warmers. they’re probably virgin silk $800 rapha warmers, but i know not of these things.

congrats to all. hope to see you guys and gals at the next race!

2011 OSRS#1 Deer Creek – Anne’s Perspective

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LesbiAnne shares her first 1/2/3 race….

anne on the right digging

In the pic I’m coming up from back on the right.  I blew past half that pack and knocked off Tierra Kier (powerful Dayton chic) at the line by about 1- 2 inches.  It was so close that I had to dispute the results. The race offficial pulled the video up on the laptop.  While it was insanely close, it was clear that I literally nipped her.   He changed the results and so I finished 9th overall for cat 1,2,3 women.  That doesn’t sound too impressive but this group of 1,2,3 are crazy good.

Rest of race report is as follows.  First lap shifted between hard efforts and stupid slow soft pedaling games.  Three girls got away and Dayton controlled rest of main field so no one chased.  Then another major break at beginning of lap two.  My weakness is getting pushed towards the back and so I could bridge with that group.  I worked with 3 other girls (including Blair) for probably twenty miles.  We took short 20-30 sec pulls and the field was always in view.  I knew we had a chance to catch them but it was not going to be easy.  At 5 miles out one of the women in our group broke away and I bridged up with her. She and I worked together until 1.5 miles out.  I could see we were closing in; within striking distance.  I told her that if we were going to go it had to be now or never.  I let her take a real short pull and then I just exploded up there and then quietly jumped in the back.  One girl just looked at me very confused and said, “did you just bridge up here”.  I smirked and just nodded with a total game face on.  It was time to sprint this thing out.  Soft pedal for 1 mile.  Then, the all out sprint at 200 meters–that pic is probably 100 meters out.

2011 OSRS #1 Anne + Blair