Race History 2009: Hincapie/ Gary Fisher presented by Barkley, of the Greenville Spinners and Blue Collar Cycling

2009:  Hincapie/ Gary Fisher presented by Barkley, of the Greenville Spinners and Blue Collar Cycling
Date	Place	Category	Race	Location	Distance	Notes
1/1/2009		USCF 1,2	Hincapie/ Gary Fisher presented by Barkley	Greenville, SC
1/24/2009	1st	A	3rd Andrew Gold	Blacksburg, VA	42 miles
2/7/2009	6th	A	4th Owen Cup	Blacksburg, VA	83 miles
2/14/2009	8th	USCF 1, 2	Wolf Pack Cycling Classic Road Race	Chatham County, NC	72 miles
3/7/2009	16th	USCF 1, 2	River Falls Road Race	Greenville, SC	60 miles
3/8/2009	DNF	USCF 1, 2	BMW Performance Center Crit	Greenville, SC	60min
3/21/2009	21st	USCF 1, 2	Out Like a Lion RR	New London, NC	60 miles
3/22/2009	5th	USCF 1, 2	Out Like a Lion Crit	Salisbury, NC	60min
3/29/2009	3rd	USCF 1, 2	Jefferson Cup Road Race	Charlottesville, VA	70 miles
4/19/2009	25th	Invitation	Battenkill	Cambridge, NY	120 miles
4/25-26/2009		USCF 1, 2, 3	Tour de Ephrata	Lancaster County PA
4/25/2009	30th	USCF 1, 2, 3	RR	Lancaster County PA
4/26/2009	12th	USCF 1, 2, 3	TTT	Lancaster County PA
4/26/2009	23rd	USCF 1, 2, 3	Crit	Ephrata, PA
4/25-26/2009	35th	USCF 1, 2, 3	Overall	Lancaster County PA
5/2/2009	18th	Pro, 1, 2	Sunny King Criterium	Anniston, AL	60km
5/3/2009	DNF	Pro, 1, 2	Sandy Ridge, Criterium US Speed week	Sandy Ridge, GA	60km
5/16/2009	14th	Pro, 1	Wilmington Grand Prix	Wilmington, DE	35miles
5/23/2009	46th	Pro, 1, 2	US Bicycling Hall of Fame Super Saturday	Somerset County, NJ	80miles
6/6-7/2009		Pro, 1, 2	Sanofi Aventis Omnium
6/6/2009	2nd	Pro, 1, 2, 3	Roan Groan Road race	Elizabethton, TN	55 miles
6/6/2009	6th	Pro, 1, 2	Time Trial	Erwin, TN	2 miles
6/7/2009	1st	Pro, 1, 2	Johnson City Crit	Johnson City, TN	90min
6/6-7/2009	1st	Pro, 1, 2	Sanofi Aventis Omnium Overall
6/7/2009	5th	Masters 30+	Johnson City Crit	Johnson City, TN	60min
6/13/2009	36th	Pro 1, 2, 3	North Carolina Road Race Championship	Salisbury, NC	80 miles
6/20/2009	3rd	Open	Tour de Kale Summit Challenge	Denton, NC	83 miles
6/27/2009	DNF	Pro, 1, 2, 3	Poolesville Road Race	Poolesville, MD	78 miles
6/28/2009	5th	Pro, 1, 2, 3	Reston Town Center Grand Prix Criterium	Reston, VA	60km
7/3/2009	7th	Pro, 1, 2, 3	Mill Mountain time trial	Roanoke, VA	2 mile	9:56
7/4/2009	7th	Pro, 1, 2, 3	Tour de Festival Downtown Criterium	Roanoke, VA	35miles
7/5/2009	DNF	Pro, 1, 2, 3	Historic Downtown Criterium	Roanoke, VA	35 miles	Rainy and sketch not worth the risk
7/12/2009	39th	1.12B	Zele	Zele, Belgium	112km	Got to race late and didn’t get time to refill water bottles so even though I was going good I dehydrated
7/13/2009	DNF	1.12B	Sinaai	Sinaai, Belgium	112km	Was going for about 20th but was not having fun so I quite with two laps to go
7/14/2009	32nd	1.12B	Wachtebeke Oud Sluis	Wachtebeke, Belgium	119km	Was playing iwht the big boys and went of r a lap prime just lost it and the big boys rolled away without me
7/19/2009	DNF	1.12B	Borsbeke	Borsbeke, Belgium	115km	Lacked the motivation today, they changed the course I had enjoyed the year before.
7/20/2009	5th	1.12B	Strijpen	Strijpen, Belgium	114km	Had to make the most of the trip kept attacking to avoid missing the move
7/25/2009	6th	Pro, 1, 2, 3	Lost River Classic	Mathias, WV	60miles	Hilly 10 mile course, I felt out of it coming back form Belgium cramping with 1.5 laps to go should have been racing for the win
8/8/2009	65th	Pro, 1	Presbyterian Hospital Invitational Criterium	Charlotte, NC	50 miles
8/9/2009	65th	Pro, 1, 2	Hanes Park Classic	Winston Salem, NC	90min
8/22/2008	4:12:00	Open	Burkes Garden Century	Narrows, VA	103 miles	4:08
8/29-30/2009		Pro, 1, 2	BMW Omnium - River Gorge	Chattanooga, TN
8/29/2009	8th	Pro, 1, 2	BMW Omnium - River Gorge Road Race	Chattanooga, TN	60miles
8/29/2009	11th	Pro, 1, 2	BMW Omnium - River Gorge Time Trial	Chattanooga, TN	4.3miles	8:31
8/30/2009	7th	Pro, 1, 2	BMW Omnium - Chattanooga Downtown Criterium	Chattanooga, TN	60min
8/29-30/2009	8th	Pro, 1, 2	BMW Omnium - River Gorge	Chattanooga, TN
9/11-13/2009		Invitational	Univest Gran Prix
9/11/2009	91st	Invitational	Univest Gran Prix Team Time Trial of Allentown	Allentown, PA	7 miles
9/12/2009	DNF	UCI 1.2	Univest Gran Prix Road Race of Souderton	Souderton, PA	100 miles	Crashed heavy in the neutral zone, rode the slip and slide 60mile circuit only to lock up in town
9/13/2009	79th	Invitational	Univest Criterium of Doylestown	Doylestown, PA	50 miles	Suffered with the wounds for a finish
10/4/2009	3rd	Open	Poor Mountain Hill Climb	Roanoke, VA	6.75 miles	6.75 miles long with about 3000 vertical feet of climbing.
10/25/2009	5th	Expert	Rowdy Dog Mountain Bike Race	Blacksburg, VA	18 miles
11/7/2009	3rd	USCF 1, 2	Tech Cross Day 1	Blacksburg, VA	60min
11/8/2009	DNS	USCF 1, 2	Tech Cross Day 2	Blacksburg, VA	60min
10/31/2009	3rd	A	Ronde van DeLongen	Blacksburg, VA	58miles

Scotties video of training for Battenkill 2009

Dirt Roads (HQ) from THESWPLACE on Vimeo.

Thanksgiving Day MTB Ride 2009 on Vimeo

Too much fun Thanksgiving day.

Thanks Geronimo

more about "Thanksgiving Day MTB Ride 2009 on Vimeo", posted with vodpod

Training with Scottie and Reid

Reid and I met up with Scottie and rolled to Floyd, touched the Blue Ridge Parkway. 87 miles 4:48 ride time. A good start to a weekend training camp to get us rolling for the fall races.

Photo links

My Blogging is lacking I tend to tire myself out to much to think about blogging. Here are some links.

Pictures and some results of the races

Zele 7/12/2009

Photos http://www.cyclingnews.nu/fotopaginas%202009/ZeleHeikant12-07-2009.htm#Zondag

Results http://www.cyclingnews.nu/uitslagen/2009/Zele12-07-2009.pdf

Sinaai 7/13/ 2009

Photos http://www.cyclingnews.nu/wedstrijdverslagen%20weg%202009/Sinaai13-07-2009.htm#13

Wachtebeke 7/14/2009

Photos http://www.cyclingnews.nu/wedstrijdverslagen%20weg%202009/Wachtebeke14-07-2009.htm#14

Results http://www.cyclingnews.nu/uitslagen/2009/WachtebekeOudeSluis14-07-2009.pdf

My Pictures from to and from Wachtebeke

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=2394795&id=6228845&ref=mf

Borsbeke 7/19/2009

Photos http://www.cyclingnews.nu/fotopaginas%202009/Borsbeke19-07-2009.htm#Zondag

Strijpen 7/20/2009

Results http://www.cyclingnews.nu/uitslagen/2009/Strijpen20-07-2009.pdf

Reid’s blog he I keeping up with the daily reports

http://bigwatts.blogspot.com/

Belgium 2009

So last year I was going to blog about my 2008 week to Belgium. I posted one blog after my first race and then contacted my friend Kenneth and went out until 4am. The week of 2008 was full of great results, late nights, drinking and good times.

Maybe this year I will blog about my 2009 Belgian trip, it is the same week that I came last year so a chance at the same races. So far, it is a different trip. I am staying at Kenneth’s new apartment in Balegem, Be. It is located just north of the Flemish hills, perfect for exploring and training on the RvV (Tour of Flanders) hills and course. The town is a lot quieter than Gent.

Kenneth and his girlfriend have been taking care of us and it is an amazing trip, strait into the culture of the country. Catching up with Kenneth’s family has been great; they are some of the most generous people I have ever met.

Last year I was returning form my suspension and had been putting some huge endurance training, and I put out some strong results for my one week in Belgium. In the past, it took me two weeks to finish a Belgian race. I love racing in Belgium I feel the strongest rider always wins.

This year I have been going well in the USA, so the races in Belgium I felt would go better but the styles are to different and I am missing the fire I had last year. The weeks leading up to the 2009 Belgian trip were very stressful and my training was not as I would have liked. I thought I would be okay.

So far, I have been tired. The lacks of training and mistakes have delivered what I see as poor performances. Sunday we raced in Zele, Be. We left late to the race and I jammed up there. Then once in Zele I was unable to find the race and it demoralized me. We found the race 30min after I thought I started but they said we had 10min until the start. In the race I felt great and made, what I thought would be the break to the finish but I weakened due to lack of water because of not preparing correctly after being late. My final group was going for something in the teens but I did not contest due to the disappointment.

Monday I returned to Sinaai for the same course I place 7^th the year before, Kenneth drove us to the race so I felt the pressure was on but my mind was not in it and I was feeling the 140miles that I did on Sunday. I sat last wheel for the first four laps and then moved up to just miss the move. I rode until two laps to finish and I thought my group was going for something in the 20s so I quit. I was a bit upset with myself. The race was won by Guy Smet winner of the 2008 Tour de Faso, I would have been lucky to hold his wheel on a good day. Last year at this race, I had a norm power of 304 and average of 284. This year my power meter broke in the race due to the rough roads but it would have been lucky to have an average power of 240.

Tomorrow is another day