Sunday, June 17, 2012

2012 Scarlet Fire 2-Person TTT Recap I

The weather all week was in the low to mid 70's and windy with northeast and northwest winds. As the week moved into Thursday and Friday, the temps increased while the winds stayed constant. Now, it's Saturday morning and the temps are fast approaching the mid to upper 80's...go figure! It's time for the Garden Prairie TTT, so why wouldn't the winds have picked up as well?

I prayed all week to the wind deities, but I guess I forgot to include the rain deities in these prayers. My failure to do so must have upset them both, so they both put the smack down on teams that had a later start time.

Druber's Crew ran a very well organized MATTS race. The corners were clean and monitored, directional markers everywhere and all the road imperfections were very well marked with bright, orange, fluorescent paint to help riders navigate the course. In other words, everything was smooth...wait that's my word of the week from Coach Burke!

As riders left the starting line, they were hit with a 10-12 mph south, southwest wind. Heading east to the turnaround with the tailwind was fast. However, heading back west up the false flat was difficult into the wind for numerous teams as they fought with their bikes, holding their teammates wheel or better yet with each other. This stretch of road favored those who could stomp on the pedals in sync with metronome ticking in their head. Power was most definitely a premium! With a helping hand from Mother Nature, the final run into the finish had the speedometer reading 34+...Nice!  

Fastest time of the day was set by the team of Curtis Bice and Dale Humphrey. They dug deep and stopped the clock at 52.57.58...solid performance gentlemen! You read the course like a children's book! The second fastest time of the day belonged to the team of Jon Lafontant and Fabio Orlandi as both stayed on course and rolled across the line at 53.24.71. Three seconds behind 2nd place and completing the podium with the third fastest time at 53.27.72 was the team of Bob Burke and Brian Akers.


Druber with the uber registration...taking a page form Gina's book. Hey,  Dougie and I did see Mike Zellman (aka "Mr Sram") out on the course riding his Euro-motorcycle. Next time Mike, you gotta either give us time splits or a slipstream to work with.

Bob Burns (73 years young), Mike Burns and Dennis Jurs. Dennis, start times were only a minute late...not bad for MATTS!

Is that the new Lamb Little Racing Castelli team skinsuit and Kestrel road bike? If so, dude where's mine? I want a conference with the head honcho of this team! Where's Oliff Jr when you need him?
Everyone was happy to see Brian Harris. He's back and looking more fit than ever...check out the guns!
Bob, thanks for the awesome TTT! I'm looking forward to the next one in July.
What don't you understand? This is Woodstock son...NO CHIMP SPOKEN HERE!


"Damn it Ben...could you just help me out with the frickn' seatpost." Don't worry Dougie...you'll make it to your bachelor party. At this point, I'm more concerned about your lack of hydration. Where's the cooler?
Meanwhile at the Jaminator's workshop...Tater-Tot is looking pretty tired from playing with the windup toy he found in field after the rain.


Big thanks to the Scarlet Fire Racing Team, Carl Wilkins, Bob Lundberg, Bob Kuttler, Bill Cassidy and Chris for putting together another stellar MATTS' event at Garden Prairie.

For a complete listing of the results, as well as other ABR race results, checkout the Mid America Time Trial Series and American Bicycle Racing websites. Also, don't forget to check out the Mid America Time Trial Series on facebook. If you haven't, you need to.

The next MATTS' event is the  Team Apache 40K TT ("ABR ILLINOIS STATE CHAMPIONSHIP TT," MATTS RACE #11)  on Sunday, June 24th, in Paw Paw, IL. Here's the link to register: Get Me Registered. After that...MATTS will take us south to Hersher, Illinois for the Midwest Masters Wolfgang Freitag Memorial 2-Person 50k TTT (MATTS RACE #12) on Sunday, July 8th. Here's the link to register: Get Me Registered.



UPCOMING RACES in Illinois/Wisconsin:
"CLICK" on RACE for FLYER INFO
July 8th
July 21st
July 22nd
"ABR Midwest Regional Championship Time Trial"
Quick update about the Stray Kats 20K Barstow TT at Cordova July, 21st. I spoke with Bob Kuttler and found out the following info: The race will start where the 40K TT has in the past, and it will finish close to the 40K TT turnaround. Therefore, it's a one way point to point TT with only one left hand turn. If the winds are out of the south, it's gonna be fast.
BA
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