RR: Kew Crits 2/3/05

essendon93 said:

hill, but had nothing. Ended up with about 8th place.

P.S. Thanks for the encouragement BR guys, on the hairpin and finish
line

Good racing ess! There were about 7-8 of us BR'ers at the line who saw your
jump then we all waited forever to see you pop around the corner for the
climb to the line.. That last lap downhill and flat section before the
hairpin is the most energy sapping 45 seconds (?) of the entire race if you
are off the front.

cheers,
GPL

essendon93 said:

My first race tonight, left work early to make sure I arrived with
plenty of time to spare. Did a few easy laps of the course, didn’t
really need a warm up as I’d riden in from Gladdy Park.

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Heard the bell for the last lap, so I gunned it, turning it into a 1km
time trial, an all or nothing move (stupid really!), but I figured I'll
try and do a 1 man breakaway, ended up getting a decent jump off the
line, and managed to lead until just after the hairpin. No idea what
sort of gap I opened up, it was just a case of head down, bum up.
Didn’t take the hairpin well, mainly due to fatigue. I could sense
them coming just before the turn, searched for that final burst up the
hill, but had nothing. Ended up with about 8th place.

Lessons

Try to get a wheel, coming around the sweeper, and hold it, spent to
much time riding in the wind.

Well done. Sound's like you've caught the racing bug...

--
Brett

essendon93 said:

stuff...

a bystanders' perspective...
ess went round easy the first half and then after 'some encouragement' moved up into the first 5'ish.
We commented on how cruisy the pace seemed to be (Ess's average speed confirmed that) and with one to go the usual hard few at the front werent pushing all that hard!
Except our lad in red 😄
Looking for him coming up the hll we spotted him in (doh!) first!
"Get to that corner first" I yells...
Maybe shoudlnt have said that.
Next thing i know he's not at the front, but a good 30m off th front and still pulling away :eek:
Well, we are all standing there trying to picture whether he can hold it for the downhill and the back straight and back up the hill???
Exciting and tense stuff.
"He Could do it. He's pretty strong"...
He would certainly give em curry coming up the hill (curse to all hillclimbers).
See them appear finally and Ess is at the front but the swarm has arrived.
They swallow him up with about 100m to go.
Craigster puts in a good effort for a 4th (followed by Jiordy) and Ess gets 8th.
Great effort. He'll be back...

flyingdutch said:

a bystanders' perspective...
ess went round easy the first half and then after 'some encouragement' moved up into the first 5'ish.
We commented on how cruisy the pace seemed to be (Ess's average speed confirmed that) and with one to go the usual hard few at the front werent pushing all that hard!
Except our lad in red 😄
Looking for him coming up the hll we spotted him in (doh!) first!
"Get to that corner first" I yells...
Maybe shoudlnt have said that.
Next thing i know he's not at the front, but a good 30m off th front and still pulling away :eek:
Well, we are all standing there trying to picture whether he can hold it for the downhill and the back straight and back up the hill???
Exciting and tense stuff.
"He Could do it. He's pretty strong"...
He would certainly give em curry coming up the hill (curse to all hillclimbers).
See them appear finally and Ess is at the front but the swarm has arrived.
They swallow him up with about 100m to go.
Craigster puts in a good effort for a 4th (followed by Jiordy) and Ess gets 8th.
Great effort. He'll be back...

so if all BR'ers whom have raced entered next week at Kew
(Me, Gags, Ess, Dej and mates Craigster, Jiordy and Phil)
could make it real interesting 😄
just block out everyone else going into last hairpin and share the money 😄 😄 😄

F"Conspiracy theorist at your service"Dutch

flyingdutch said:

Well, we are all standing there trying to picture whether he can hold
it for the downhill and the back straight and back up the hill???
Exciting and tense stuff.
"He Could do it. He's pretty strong"...
He would certainly give em curry coming up the hill (curse to all
hillclimbers).
See them appear finally and Ess is at the front but the swarm has
arrived.

That last lap seemed to go forever while we all waited in anticipation
for a huge Ess win blowing the field apart. I might have to work it out
so I can watch again next week.

DaveB "quite happy to spectate"

essendon93 said:

My first race tonight, left work early to make sure I arrived with plenty of time to spare.

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Good going for injecting some life into the pack at the end there, Ess. I was leading the bunch on the 'three to go' lap, and had a hell of a job getting someone to take over on the back corner. Eventually slotted into third wheel and waited for the big surge - which never really came. Saw you go and thought you were going to get it for sure - no one was up for chasing and time was running out.

Took the final hairpin harder than I ever have before (one of these days I'm gonna hit a pedal) and passed you on the right. Couple of strongish sprinters claimed the 1-2 and I was edged into 4th by a crit debutant for my first ever white envelope.

Good to see the a.b guys at the line (why weren't you racing, boys?). Only a couple more races left to go before DST ends. Let's keep those K's up over the winter and things should be shaping up for an exciting 05/06 season.

A.B tipping league, anyone?

Cheers,
Craigster.

craigster_jd said:

Good to see the a.b guys at the line (why weren't you racing, boys?). Only a couple more races left to go before DST ends. Let's keep those K's up over the winter and things should be shaping up for an exciting 05/06 season.

A.B tipping league, anyone?

Cheers,
Craigster.

er, um.. I blame amsterdam 🙄
and doing the race on 'Thunderbird1' woulda bee 'interesting...

and why stop until next summer?
hawthorn hold about 4-5 crits at Kew over the winter
(altho one of the ones i did this winter was sooooo cold i pulled out suffering a huge 'ice-cream' headache!!! )
and there's that roadracing stuff i guess i/we should try so i can have a vague idea what its like to get dropped in that too 😄

craigster_jd said:

Quoted message said:

Good to see the a.b guys at the line (why weren't you racing, boys?).
Only a couple more races left to go before DST ends. Let's keep those
K's up over the winter and things should be shaping up for an exciting
05/06 season.

Crits are training races, the real racing happens over winter, unless
you're a trackie. Trackie's don't like going outside when it's
raining, or something 🙂

flyingdutch said:

and there's that roadracing stuff i guess i/we should try so i can have
a vague idea what its like to get dropped in that too 😄

Who needs road racing to see what it's like to be dropped. I get to see
what that's like each Sunday morning. And I get the feeling Mr Belgian
Waffles will be up the front trying very hard to do that this week (or
most likely sitting at second wheel urging Blah or Gags on) 🙂

DaveB "aka president of the Remedial Riders Club"

craigster_jd said:

Took the final hairpin harder than I ever have before (one of these
days I'm gonna hit a pedal) and passed you on the right. Couple of
strongish sprinters claimed the 1-2 and I was edged into 4th by a crit
debutant for my first ever white envelope.

Good to see the a.b guys at the line (why weren't you racing, boys?).
Only a couple more races left to go before DST ends. Let's keep those
K's up over the winter and things should be shaping up for an exciting
05/06 season.

Nice work on the 4th place craigster!

There were more BR'ers there last night than have been on most BR rides
I've done.. hmmm... 🙂

cheers,
GPL

craigster_jd said:

Good going for injecting some life into the pack at the end there, Ess. I was leading the bunch on the 'three to go' lap, and had a hell of a job getting someone to take over on the back corner. Eventually slotted into third wheel and waited for the big surge - which never really came. Saw you go and thought you were going to get it for sure - no one was up for chasing and time was running out.

Took the final hairpin harder than I ever have before (one of these days I'm gonna hit a pedal) and passed you on the right. Couple of strongish sprinters claimed the 1-2 and I was edged into 4th by a crit debutant for my first ever white envelope.

Good to see the a.b guys at the line (why weren't you racing, boys?). Only a couple more races left to go before DST ends. Let's keep those K's up over the winter and things should be shaping up for an exciting 05/06 season.

A.B tipping league, anyone?

Cheers,
Craigster.

Yeah nice work craigster!! As you probably noticed I was dying pretty quick going into that corner, but I hope I provided a bit of entertainment to all those watching. At least I didn't go down wondering 😄

Dutch, didn't hear you say get to the corner first! I did that, but those damn legs didn't come to the party..ah well, I'll play it a bit different next time.

essendon93 said:

Dutch, didn't hear you say get to the corner first! I did that, but those damn legs didn't come to the party..ah well, I'll play it a bit different next time.

phew! off the hook. should know better than to give coaching tips, altho the other prodigy (GPL) i can vicariously experience glory thru has a 1st and 2nd out of 2 starts. next time, rocky fer sure...

F"think i need a bigger hat" Dutch

flyingdutch said:

and why stop until next summer?
hawthorn hold about 4-5 crits at Kew over the winter
(altho one of the ones i did this winter was sooooo cold i pulled out
suffering a huge 'ice-cream' headache!!! )
and there's that roadracing stuff i guess i/we should try so i can have
a vague idea what its like to get dropped in that too 😄

Like a crit, but colder.
Like a crit, but wetter.
Like a crit, but there's real hills.
Like a crit, but you might not see anyone else for an hour or more.
Like a crit, but you probably HAVE to ride back to your car.

I'm really only leaving so Carl doesn't get me riding up hills.. 🙂

hippy

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craigster_jd said:

Good to see the a.b guys at the line (why weren't you racing, boys?).
Only a couple more races left to go before DST ends. Let's keep those
K's up over the winter and things should be shaping up for an exciting
05/06 season.

A.B tipping league, anyone?

Cheers,
Craigster.

er, um.. I blame amsterdam 🙄
and doing the race on 'Thunderbird1' woulda bee 'interesting...

and why stop until next summer?
hawthorn hold about 4-5 crits at Kew over the winter
(altho one of the ones i did this winter was sooooo cold i pulled out
suffering a huge 'ice-cream' headache!!! )
and there's that roadracing stuff i guess i/we should try so i can have
a vague idea what its like to get dropped in that too 😄
--
flyingdutch

I am trying to scam onto the ADF cycling championships that are going to be
in Brisbane some time in April. Apparantly there is a 60km road race in the
morning and then a Crit the same evening. Could be good for a laugh and I
think that there are 3 spots for the Arafura Games later in the year in
Darwin. I am pretty sure that I will be way off the pace (I am sure there
are a few A and B grade riders that will be there) but I am pretty keen to
have a crack.

I need my ankle to come good before I can get in any decent training
though.....had it X-Rayed on Tuesday.....nothing broken so it is only a soft
tissue injury. Was able to walk on it yesterday without having to walk on
my toe and look like a gumby.......back on the bike today to and from work
(I loosened off the tension adjustor on the left pedal so that I could clip
in and out without it hurting my foot too much). I started out taking it
easy but then as I took off from traffic lights in Ivanhoe, an older guy on
a Bianchi went past me (he had a run up on the down hill).....so that of
course meant that I had to catch up to him. I tailed him at about 10m
(don't want to be accused of being a wheel sucker) until about 300m before
the paper mill on Heidelberg Road and then I went past him. I was spinning
a bit faster than I normally would so that I didn't put too much pressure on
my sore ankle and it actually felt pretty good. He wheelsucked me up over
the bridge at Hoddle Street and then when I went left at Wellington St, he
went straight on (doing alright for an old fella).

On the trip home I felt really good and got home in close to a record time
for me. I am sure that it has something to do with me riding the
singlespeed all last week including an XC ride with Lindsay out the back of
Greensborough for a couple of hours on the Saturday and half an hour or so
on the Sunday at You Yangs before I came off and hurt my ankle. I am keen
to get my road fixie up and running so that I can push a bigger gear for a
while and see what sort of improvements I get (currently running 38/16 on
the SS mtb).

Ride On,

Gags

GPLama said:

There were more BR'ers there last night than have been on most BR

rides

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I've done.. hmmm... 🙂

cheers,
GPL

And just to prove it;
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And the winner is;
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GPLama said:

There were more BR'ers there last night than have been on most BR

rides

Quoted message said:

I've done.. hmmm... 🙂

cheers,
GPL

And just to prove it;
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And the winner is;
http://www.freewebs.com/jaywoo/D-finish.jpg

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GPLama said:

There were more BR'ers there last night than have been on most BR

rides

Quoted message said:

I've done.. hmmm... 🙂

cheers,
GPL

And just to prove it;
<IMG SRC="http://www.freewebs.com/jaywoo/BR-Xer's.jpg">

And the winner is;
<IMG SRC="http://www.freewebs.com/jaywoo/D-finish.jpg">

hey that 2nd photo actually makes it look like i won🙂
pity i was a lap down🙂

Carl Brewer said:

Crits are training races, the real racing happens over winter, unless
you're a trackie. Trackie's don't like going outside when it's
raining, or something 🙂

who does?

I have had more wet rides in 'Summer' this year than in Winter/spring!

Crits are 'training' ? so I shoulda been 'training', not racing.
always more to learn 🙄

F"Im doing 'Base' honest"Dutch

GPLama said:

There were more BR'ers there last night than have been on most BR rides
I've done.. hmmm... 🙂

cheers,
GPL

Okay I just had a look at the crit calendar and the last Kew crit is
March 23rd. How about we aim for that as BR night, I'll even race for
the first time (I wonder how many laps I will last before being dropped)
which means Brett has no excuse to not race as well. Now if we could
only get TimC along, I'd pay to see the reaction to the GVBR bike
surrounded by all those $ bikes.

DaveB