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Training Time

My first ride over 2 hrs in a long time(4.5hrs) and my first trip to the gym in a year. Ouch… After a long cross season and walking pneumonia over the holidays keeping me from Nationals…
I was on a good road after getting more UCI points at Jingle cross and NBX in Providence. Then wrapping up the Texas season with a State Title. Im already fired up for next year!
I got some good eating done. As well as 3 mountain runs and some sweet Snowboarding back near my hometown at Snowshoe Mountain in West Virginia. Many good things to follow.

TNX , THE BIG ONE!!!

This Coming Tuesday Dec 13th. New course features to simulate Parts of Cyclocross State Championships. Lots of prizes! Primes! Hot Beverages, Good Music, and great times. NEW Schedule to allow for longer CX Races. Cat 4 race will be long enough for upgrade points!
Schedule: Short Track /Same Schedule. Cat 4 Cross 7:15pm 30min+2 Then 8PM 1,2,3 Race 45min+2

Please RSVP and Dallas Bike Works Facebook. I am working on a Food Vendor and Possibility of 3rd light if we can get a good RSVP by Monday. So please do it if you can. Price will $20 race all you can race, $10 for Juniors.

The 2/3 Short Track will have 4 primes, Cat 4 Cross will have 6 primes! Cash for 1/2 with cat 3 bonus to top cat 3(Green Plates)

Thanks to all who have raced, and hope to see you Tuesday! Bryan

Series 1 TNX Overalls

Cat 2/3 MTB Short Track

  1. 41pts Nick Torraca
  2. 34pts Dave Parks
  3. 29pts Taury Patterson
  4. 28pts Mark Rawlings
  5. 26pts Jacob Salassi
  6. 24pts Steve Allen
  7. 22pts Robert Quiroga
  8. 18pts Roger Prachyl
  9. 14pts Jacob Asay

Cat 1 MTB Short Track

  1. 39pts Tim Cook
  2. 33pts Shawn Bonivita
  3. 30pts Ryan Droomgoole
  4. 24pts Steve Williams
  5. 24pts Josh Clark
  6. 22pts Zach Carlson
  7. 16pts Derrick Saunders
  8. 14pts Jeff Turner
  9. 14pts Richard Quiroga
  10. 9pts Stewart Ericson /Eric Warden

Cat 4 CX

  1. 47pts Steven Thompson
  2. 34pts Jacob Salassi
  3. 33pts Steve Allen
  4. 31pts Cy Armstrong
  5. 15pts Roger Prachyl
  6. 13pts Paul Genhoundt
  7. 11pts Carlos Blandon
  8. 11pts Tuary patterson
  9. 11pts Nick Torraca
  10. 10pts Eric Reisdorf

Cat 3 CX

  1. 44pts Derrick Saunders
  2. 41pts Collin Roberson
  3. 29pts Stewart Erickson
  4. 22pts Jeff Turner
  5. 17pts Kelly Feilke
  6. 16pts Nick Torraca
  7. 15pts Cole Kirkpatrick
  8. 15pts Ian Moore
  9. 15pts Mark Ashton
  10. 15pts Robert Quiroga/ Boyd Wallace

Cat 1/2 CX

  1. 45pts Wiley Mosley
  2. 43pts Steve Dodge
  3. 37pts Tim Cook
  4. 35pts Matt Davis
  5. 27pts Nick Garza
  6. 26pts Ryan Droomgoole
  7. 17pts Eric Warden

I want to give thanks to all who came out and raced hard. Then the huge thanks to all the sponsors who make this possible! Please support our sponsors…

See you next week starting series 2! Bryan

TNX Overalls

Short Track  cat 2/3 :

  1. 1st, 28pts Mark Rawlings.
  2. 2nd, 26pts Nick Torraca.
  3. 3rd, 25pts Dave parks.
  4. 4th, 22pts. Robert quiroga.
  5. 5th, 20pts Steve Allen.
  6. 6th, 16pts Taury Patterson.
  7. 7th, 15pts Jacob Salassi.
  8. 8th, 14pts Jacob Asay.
  9. 9-11th, 9pts. are Jake Boone, Chris Scheafer, Cy Armstrong

Short Track Cat 1:

  1. 1st, 31pts Shawn Bonivita.
  2. 2nd, 26pts Tim Cook.
  3. 3rd, 24pts Josh Clark.
  4. 4th, 22pts Zach Carlson.
  5.  5th, 15pts Ryan Droomgoole.
  6. 6th,  14pts Jeff Turner.
  7. 7th, 14pts Richard Quiroga.
  8. 8th, 13pts Steven Williams.
  9. 9th, 11pts Steve Dodge.
  10. 10th, 11pts Derrick Saunders. Tied with 9 pts Eric wallace and Michael Wilder.

CX Cat 4 Only:

  1. 1st, 34pts Jacob Salassi.
  2. 2nd, 32pts Steven Thompson.
  3. 3rd, 31pts Cy Armstrong.
  4. 4th, 20pts Steve Allen.
  5. 5th, 13pts Paul Genhoudt.
  6. 6th, 11pts Taury Patterson.
  7. 7th, 11pts Nick Torraca.
  8. 8th, 10 pts Adam Spear.
  9. 9th, 10pts Jacob Asay.
  10. 10th, 9pts Mark Moser.

CX Cat 3/4:

  1. 1st, 37pts Derrick Saunders.
  2. 2nd, 26pts Colin Roberson.
  3. 3rd, 22pts Jeff Turner.
  4. 4th, 18pts Stewart Erikson.
  5. 5th, 17pts Kelly Feike.
  6. 6th, 15pts Cole Kirkpatrick.
  7. 7th, 15pts Ian Morre.
  8. 8th, 14pts Mark Ashton.
  9. 9th, 14pts Richard Quiroga.
  10. 10th, 10pts Boyd Wallace

CX 1/2:

  1. 1st,36pts Steve Dodge.
  2. 2nd, 30 pts Wiley Mosley.
  3. 3rd, 28pts Tim Cook.
  4. 4th, 27pts Nick Garza.
  5. 5th, 24pts Matt Davis.
  6. 6th  13pts Art Exum.
  7. 7th, 13pts Ryan Droomgoole.
  8. 8th, 12pts Eric Warden

Thanks to all the sponsors and supporters of TNX!

Boulder Recap coming up. Thanks for reading

 

 

Behind the back bike pass.


Tough cross and dollar bills!


 

This is the 3/4 field with over 35 dollar bills on the run up. Only 2 were missed. Other videos under video tab. More to come!

Crazy Water!

Check out the action over this past weekend!


TNX Results week 1- 9/27/11

First, I want to say thanks to everyone who came out and raced! Then a special thanks Dallas Bike Works and all the other sponsors who make these series happen. Another huge thanks is to everyone who helps set-up and clean-up. I am already looking forward to next week and what I can do with the course, as I see the reach of the lights and how the park races.  ***The biggest thing to note is next week we will be moving categories a bit. With the huge number of 4′s we are going to do the races like this with same schedule as time concerns

Same MTB races. 2/3* short track with *top 3′s winner prize bonus, followed by cat 1 short track.

Then for Cross. *Cat 4 only cyclocross, cat 3/4 cyclocross, cat 1/2/3 cyclocross. As always you can race up but not down. points will only count in class on license. Plate Colors: Green -4′s, Orange-3′s, 1/2′s white

So Results for short Track:

Short Track 2/3:  1) Derrick Sanders 2)Roger Prachyl 3)Wade Gaspeson 4)Chris Schaefer 5)Robert Quiroga 6) David Ness 7)Yuri Cook 8)Dandy Villaneva 9)Matt Malone 10)Dana Buret 11)Jacob Salossi 12)Adam Spears 13)Steve Thompson 14)Brent Aston 15)David Dudley 16)Scott Herrera

Short Track cat 1:  1) Shaun Bonivita 2)Steven Williams 3)Steve Dodge 4)Jeff Turner 5)Richard Quiroga 6) john Larson 7)Adam Miester

Cross 3/4: 1) Erik Kruse 2)Justin Juarez 3)Steve Thompson 4)Jonathan Roach 5) Wade Gaspeson 6)Jon Kieffer 7)Roger Prachyl  8) John Gillan 9) Robert Quiroga 10) Dave Parks

Cross 2/3: 1)Ryan Drumgoule 2)Shaun Bonivita 3) #58 4)Micheal Wilder 5)Derriek Sanders 6)Nicholas Garza 7)Jeff Turner 8)Steven Williams 9) Collin Roberson 10) Christina Smith

Cross 1: 1) Wiley Mosley 2) Ryan Drumgoule 3) Steve Dodge 4) Micheal Wilder 5)?

An Overall Scoring will be posted by next week.  See you next week!    Thanks, Bryan

2900 miles and 1 flight=a 6th place so far…

So since the last post I have taken a flight to Cross Vegas, then back to attack the Charm City Weekend in Baltimore, MD.

I made it to Vegas with my file treads on, only to have a little surprise awaiting me.. OK, so Vegas gets 2 or so inches of rain a year.  Well they got that the 2 days before and on Cross Vegas Race day.   As I was out loosening up early in the day, I took shelter in a grocery store while flash storms made streams a foot deep running down the street and the lighting was striking on both sides of me.  After an hour of shelter I got a couple trash bags and headed out to make my way back to the hotel.   A quick ice bath, snack, then off to the race.  I had a relative good starting spot and was running in top 25.  The course was slick and shiny.. ice like mud that you could only pedal in a straight line.  After a grass sample(hitting the ground).  I fell back close to 50.  Then battled back to a 34th place finish.   Not to bad I guess.

Then back to Baltimore where my host family(the Merriam family) and I prepared for a weekend of racing.   The morning came early after prepping bikes all night.  Off to a course where I have great memories.  Last year had solid results.  Well again lots of rain created a heavy course.   After a strong start I faded back to 12th, then late in the race made a big charge to finish 6th.

The top American on the day!

 

The Euro invasion had made getting a podium a bit tougher this season, taking the top 5 spots.  While making the charge from 12th to 6th, I was digging so deep I would almost get dizzy at the top of the step run-up, then pushing hard through the heavy mud toward the finish.  Grabbing my first uci points of the year.  The next day was a similar course in reverse. This made for long slogs up muddy sections that sent my crushed legs into hiding – finishing 15th.

Now 900 miles from there, I am sitting in a coffee shop having breakfast preparing for the gateway cross in St.Louis.  This a stacked field as everyone is headed to Madison for the first weekend USGP cyclocross.

Check out cxmagazine and cyclingdirt for past and upcoming coverage.

Here is my marker of the day. Aces are good…

Off to a fast start, but rough start…

Things are going fast! With racing in full swing and the promotions firing on all cylinders there is not enough time in a day. Racing has landed me on a 3 week journey of UCI cross races. This past weekend leaves me tired and sore. With mass amounts of rain here in PA, the course was heavy with mud bogs that even a 4×4 truck would have a hard time navigating. With around 8 to 9 min laps and a full minute of off the bike time each lap, I have soreness that I can’t explain. The worst was a mud pit close to 100 yards in length of super thick 8” to a ft deep. Then had a climb after either way you hit it. Each day I was off to a great start, taking the front both days. Day 1 was UCI C2 and had a large powerful field. After a strong start I was cross chained standing out of a corner a dropped a chain that left me on my back and close to last. I battled back to 25th for the last money spot.

Pretty disappointed I look to day 2 for another crack at it. I again got to the front, but quickly settled into 3rd and 4th. For close to half the race staying in the top 5. Then the wheels came off as I was caught by a group of 8. Trying to keep the gap in the windy, muddy conditions to a minimum I settled for 11th on the day. I will give my Terra’s (my cross bikes) some serious love and get my Vittoria file treads ready for Vegas!

Time for an ice bath again..ouch. I will keep posting between each race. Schedule from here on out. Vegas-9/14, Baltimore 9/17-9/18, St. Louis 9/21, Wisconsin 9/24-9/25.

Check out this mess!  That is the T-town velodrome in the background to put it into perspective. Epic.