Race History 2008: Team Alliance Environmental of Chester County Cycling Foundation (CCCF), and Hincapie/ Coca-Cola/ Barkley of the Greenville Spinners and Blue Collar Cycling

2008:  Team Alliance Environmental of Chester County Cycling Foundation (CCCF), and Hincapie/ Coca-Cola/ Barkley of the Greenville Spinners and Blue Collar Cycling
Date	Place	Category	Race	Location	Distance	Notes
2/2/2008	2nd	A	2nd Andrew Gold	Blacksburg, VA	42 miles
2/9/2008	3rd	A	3rd Owen Cup	Blacksburg, VA	83 miles
6/15/2008	4th	Pro, Expert	Dirty Dawg Mountain Bike Race, Mountain Lake Getaway Resort	Giles County, VA	21 miles
7/1/2008		USCF 1,2	Team Alliance Environmental of Chester County Cycling Foundation	West Chester, PA
7/5/2008	43rd	Pro, 1, 2	Iron Hill Twilight Criterium	West Chester, PA	60 km
7/6/2008	12th	USCF 1,2,3	East coasters Criterium	Blacksburg, VA	75 min
7/14/2008	7th	1.12B	SINAAI	Sinaai, Belgium	112 km
7/15/2008	32nd	1.12B	WACHTEBEKE - OUDENBURGSE SLUIS	Wachtebeke, Belgium	119 km
7/20/2008	18th	1.12B	BORSBEKE	Borsbeke, Belgium	118 km
8/3/2008	74th	Pro, 1, 2	Hanes Park Classic Criterium	Winston-Salem, NC	90 min	Not much of a race
8/16/2008		USCF 1, 2	Hincapie/ Coca-Cola/ Barkley of the Greenville Spinners and Blue Collar Cycling	Greenville, SC
8/17/2008	63rd	Elite USCF 1	USA Cycling Elite Nationals Criterium Championships	Downers Grove, IL	80 km	Clustered mess of 175+ riders with sketchy bike handling skill that don’t want to ride in the wind
8/23/2008	4:09:00	Open	Burkes Garden Century	Narrows, VA	103 miles	4:11
9/6-7/2008		USCF 1, 2	Oak Ridge Fall Classic Omnium	Oak Ridge, TN
9/6/2009	7th	USCF 1, 2	Oak Ridge Fall Classic Individual Time Trial	Oak Ridge, TN	13km
9/6/2009	1st	USCF 1, 2, 3	Oak Ridge Fall Classic Road Race	Oak Ridge, TN	68 miles
9/7/2008	5th	USCF 1, 2	Oak Ridge Fall Classic Criterium	Oak Ridge, TN	20 miles
9/6-7/2008	4th	USCF 1, 2	Oak Ridge Fall Classic Omnium General Classification	Oak Ridge, TN
9/13/2008	21st	USCF 1, 2	Asheville Grand Prix Crit	Asheville, NC
9/21/2008	45th	Invitation	Capital Criterium	Washington, DC	85 km	Finished on a Neutral bike and did not trust it to push into the finish.
10/5/2008	1st	Any Bike	Poor Mountain Hill Climb	Roanoke, VA	6.75 miles	6.75 miles long with about 3000 vertical feet of climbing.  I was the second participant to the top with a time of 41:20 minutes
10/11/2008	24th	USCF 1, 2	St. Francis Downtown Greenville Cycling Classic	Greenville, SC	50 km
10/12/2008	20th	USCF 1, 2, 3	St. Francis Downtown Greenville Cycling Classic	Greenville, SC	50km
10/26/2008	1st	Single Speed	Rowdy Dog Mountain Bike Race	Blacksburg, VA	22 miles
11/15/2008	5th	USCF 1, 2	Tech Cross Day 1	Blacksburg, VA	60min
11/16/2008	5th	USCF 1, 2	Tech Cross Day 2	Blacksburg, VA	60min
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Final Derby of 2008

Final Derby of 2008

Made it home for Christmas and one of my favorite group ride happened to be on my birthday. The derby is a short hammer ride out of the Lehigh Country Velodrome. There has been some strong talent coming out of the area over the years. Some of the current strong men were in the area, and hitting it on Sunday, but the legend Paul Person handled them as always. Check out the sweet video Stephan Kincaid took and put together.

Trexlertown Derby December 28 2008 from Geronimok on Vimeo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULEUHF2dizc&feature=channel_page

Third race of the year

Finished my first race in Belgium, it was a kermesse in Sinaai, Belgium. I was nervous at the start. After three of 14, 8km laps I bridged a couple gaps after the tail wind cobbled section. As I caught the leaders, I kept on driving into the head wind. Only one followed and we dug in, seven more bridged up, and the rotations began. Three of the guys could really drive it at parts. I felt supper but with four 8km laps to go I got the bonk and was dropped form the group with Two laps to go. We had put so much time on the rest of the race the officials had finished them a few laps early. Therefore, I crept around for another lap and the officials felt bad for me and let me finish a lap early. Matt finished with the main pack on lap nine. On the ride home, Dan drilled it into the headwind.

Made it to Gent today and it is just as it was. Got nice and lost and rode some sweet roads in good temps. Maybe I try a race tomorrow and we will see how it goes

Back to racing

It has been a while since I posted on my own blog maybe specifically for the blog since the fall of 2003. I was unmotivated. After living in Gent, Belgium and racing for Royal Antwerp cycling club I could not motivate myself to write much while racing in the states, even though I may have squeezed something out while on Snow Valley and Rite Aid.

So last year was a little rough racing wise it started out great and I was slowly improving. Unfortunately one of my big goals didn’t go my way the tour of Virginia. The tour of VA was going great until I bent a link in my chain on stage four while I was bridging to the break. After getting a chain swap form Sram I was way behind the field and Ian Ayers was yelling out of the broom wagon for me to get in so I did. Ian had stopped to wait on his team leader who also broke a chain but Ian did not grab onto the team car when they gave the team leader a ride back to the race. It is interesting how the officials look the other way for certain people. The rest of the week was not a big deal. Until once the last stage was over and the fatigue and high emotions got the best of everyone and an altercation occurred. I don’t currently feel like going into detail but about the altercation but the real trouble started about a hour after the altercation when the first race official arrived on the scene and promised someone would be punished for the altercation he did not see. So this guy made it his personal intention to give a year break form racing. It all worked out because I was able to focus on my job and it is rock solid and now I have money in my pocket.

I got a 2008 racing license on July 1^st and started of racing Saturday night at the 4th Annual Iron Hill Twilight Criterium. Sunday at a Circuit race in Blacksburg, VA. I survived them both and they felt t like early season training races where I couldn’t turn well and things hurt at times and I felt great at times.

Saturday I am heading for a week in Gent, Belgium. I am hoping to race three times in a week an ride the RvV course while riding and drinking the rest of the time.