Catching Up The News 8/22

What a busy week I tell ya. Fortunately, today is a little better- and I can get around to putting in updates.

Best Picture EVAR. From Colin Lyons via Sam

News

Congrats to Kendra Wenzel for being elected to the USCF Board of Trustees!! This is good news.

Calendar
The 2009 OBRA Calendar is coming together quite well. I’ll actually keep it listed as a featured article and update it as I get more information. I’m actually pretty surprised that so many dates have been set so quickly. A quick note: Cascade and the Oregon Pro Cycling Classic won’t have their dates set until USAC approves the NRC calendar.

This year, the OBRA championships will also be open to bidding. Successful applicants will have the championships for two years and will have to re-apply after the two years have expired. (That does not mean that the course will automatically change after two years) I’ll be developing the criteria in the next two weeks. Factors will include:

Promoter history
Course
Geographic location
History of the location
Community support

There will be more but I’d like to keep it simple for promoters. The panel that will make the award will likely be comprised of board members, a promoter and an at large racer.

Cyclocross
I’m totally stoked for the upcoming cyclocross season. Logistics are slowly starting to fall into place. Brad Ross has been spotted- so things are good.

SSCXWC is coming back according to CXMagazine- scheduled for Nov. 8 & 9.

A quick note on USGP- it’s not on our calendar yet because it isn’t an OBRA race and no one’s sent us the info. Brooke mentioned that there were some rumors that USGP is not coming to Portland. Rest assured it is. You can check out the USGP calendar. We’ll link to it eventually as soon as Brad Ross appears.

Race Lineup for this weekend
9/23 Track Natz Qualifier (Alpenrose)
9/23 Callahan’s TT (So. O)
9/24 OBRA Hillclimb Champs (Timberline)
9/24 Kruger’s Farm Kermesse (Portland)
9/24 Pistis Short Track (So. O)

Racing
I’ve been a little out of the loop so this’ll be a big update. I have the footage from the 1/2 OBRA champs crit- unfortunately, the memory ran out 1 lap before I bit it on corner 4 at 28 mph. Bummer.

Transrockies
St. 5
2 Andreas Hestler (Can) / Chris Sheppard (Can) Rocky Mountain Bicycles
8 Keith Hickerson (USA) / Evan Plews (USA) Scott USA/ Tamarack
9 Ben Thompson (USA) / James Williams (USA) Sobe-Cannondale

St. 6
2 Andreas Hestler (Can) / Chris Sheppard (Can) Rocky Mountain Bicycles
6 Ben Thompson (USA) / James Williams (USA) Sobe-Cannondale
11 Keith Hickerson (USA) / Evan Plews (USA) Scott USA/ Tamarack

St. 7
1 Andreas Hestler (Can) / Chris Sheppard (Can) Rocky Mountain Bicycles
7 Ben Thompson (USA) / James Williams (USA) Sobe-Cannondale
14 Keith Hickerson (USA) / Evan Plews (USA) Scott USA/ Tamarack

Final
4 Andreas Hestler (Can) / Chris Sheppard (Can) Rocky Mountain Bicycles
7 Keith Hickerson (USA) / Evan Plews (USA) Scott USA/ Tamarack
10 Ben Thompson (USA) / James Williams (USA) SoBe-Cannondale

Tour of Utah
St. 5
5 Ian McKissick (USA) BMC Racing Team
20 Michael Creed, Rock Racing
21 Tom Peterson, Garmin/Chipotle
28 Paul Mach, Team Bobs-Bicycles.Com
44 Calvin Allan, Team Bobs-Bicycles.Com
45 Sam Johnson, Hagens Berman LLP
47 Justin Mayfield, Team Bobs-Bicycles.Com
54 Carson Miller, Land Rover -ORBEA
57 Jake MacArthur, Hagens Berman LLP
59 Omer Kem, Bissell
68 Erik Slack, Team Bobs-Bicycles.Com
74 Lang Reynolds, Hagens Berman LLP
75 Joshua Bartlett, Land Rover -ORBEA
80 Dave Vukets, Land Rover -ORBEA
82 Chris Stuart, Team Bobs-Bicycles.Com
84 Aaron Tuckerman The Fan Sports Network

Junior Track Natz
6km Scratch
7 Fiona Graham, River City/ Specialized

Team Sprint
3 Jacob Rathe, TEAM NORTHWEST
3 Richard Suditu, TEAM NORTHWEST
3 Benjamin Swedberg, TEAM NORTHWEST

Blogs

New Blogs

Karsten Hagen
Geronimo Kincaid (yeah, he’s from Philly, but please harass him to move out here)

For your reading pleasure

Adam Craig has a new post about the Bromont World Cup and Korean Training. Congrats on the 3rd place!!!! There’s also some great pics including one of the official Giant blow up doll.

Jason Sager posts a really interesting picture of about 200 people going off course at Transrockies and not realizing it until the leaders make the top of the summit.

Fiona Graham posts a little report on Track Natz.

Lindsay Kandra posts her Swan Island and OBRA Champs crit report.

Here’s Ironclad’s Swan Island Crit and OBRA Champs crit report. Dave also posts some great photos of the soggy Tuesday PIR.

The Yakima Bike Vigilantes also post some great pictures of the rainy August Tuesday PIR. Also, with all this talk about TTs on the OBRA list- they have a TT specific advice post.

Ivar posts up his data from the OBRA Crit Champs.

Brian Barker has his Swan Island race report.

Talk about Crit Champs- here’s my Garmin data from the Master’s 30-39 race and the 1/2 Race. (Note- the 1/2 race includes stats from when I bit it so after that point (obvious), the stats are a little off from the rest of the group)

Sam has been busy posting Tour of Utah Updates- here’s the conclusion, a stage 4 update and a stage 3 update. I’m proud of your photoshop skillz man.

Ian Boswell has an interesting start to his first race back in Europe.

Steven Beardsley writes about crit season and about his rad new Veloforma D’lusso.

Heather V. is looking in good form for Track Natz.

Kennett has a couple race reports- here and here.

Heidi comes clean.

Adnan starts posting again with a list of accomplishments of some of his riders.

Sue and Tim sure do love their “cabin.”

NRR posts about racing in August in the Northwest.

Jessi posts about her ordeal with insurance stemming from Ryan’s hospitalization. She also posts about what they are, will and won’t do(ing).

Aaron Coker had a dilemma. 24 oz PBR vs. 40 oz. PBR.

Cyclocross

Matt D’Elia has a post about the Pain on the Peak race.

Brooke posts has a couple new posts up about a personal training ride and about how to “tailor” a TT to be training for a CCX race (tongue in cheek).

Seems like Molly is quite busy too- a big post.

Gewilli is getting excited.

Mike Szwaya is ramping up for Cross Season.

Check this video from Quickrelease.TV. Very appropriate.

MOTOR MANIA EXCERPTS:

Driver: “Hey, you think you own the whole road?”

Mr. Wheeler: “Hurumph! Of course I own the road. My taxes pay for them…I pay for the roads and I’ll use ‘em.”

Mr. Wheeler: [yelling at passing cars] “Get off my road! Move over! Lemme pass!”

At traffic lights: “Aargh, 30 seconds gone of my life.”
From Quickrelease