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2003 Results Cycle-Smart International Cyclocross, Verge New England
Championships #3, UCI, Northampton, MA 11/17/03 Verge #2 November 2 2003 CLIF BAR/ECV Cyclocross (MA)
- UCI Cat 2 Central Massachusetts Cyclo-cross to End Homelessness Burncoat Park Worcester, MA 11/1/03 Junior Men u19 Morgan Macleoad 5th, Paul Weiss masters 35+ 42
(busted bike) Canton MHS Cyclocross, Canton, MA 10/25/03 Raced: Morgan Macleoad Juniors 2nd, Chris Green Mens B race 20th, Paul Weiss Maters 35+ 28th Wicked Maine Cyclocross III (ME State Championships) Pinelands New Gloucester ME October 19, 2003 Rhonda Morin, 2nd! Womens C race Downeast Cyclo-Cross VERGE New England Cyclocross Championship
Series Round 1 Pinelands, New Gloucester, ME Rhonda Morin, 1st! C Womens race Charles Goldman Mens C race 3rd, Paul Weiss Masters 35+ 9th BRC Cyclocross Hopkinton State Park, MA 10/4/03 Morgan Macleod raced Juniors and got 4th! Peter Stetson raced Mens C race and got 2nd! Schoolhouse Cyclo-cross U-32 High School, Montpelier, VT 10/3/03 Paul Weiss Masters 35+ 9th Competative Edge Cyclocross, Norhtfield MA 9/28/03 An amazing downpour for the entire day was fun. Morgan and I raced again in the mud. This was a fun race and again Morgan passed me to finish 2nd for Juniors! Submitted by Paul Weiss BCA Cyclocross Pittsfield MA 9/27/03 The season opener for new Enlgand. Morgan Macleod (Junior Development team member) and I decided to start the season on a bang. Since the Juniors and Masters race together, we had a good time in our first race. We had a fast start and great race, trading positions a few times. Morgan finally ditched me and ended up 4th for juniors and I finished within site somewhere. submitted by Paul Weiss Blueberry Bicicletta Road Race Hammonton, NJ, 9/7/2003 Cat 5, 30 miles, Karl Henry - 4th New England Single Speed Championships Sept. 6-7 Green Mountain Stage Race Northern VT August 29-Sept. 1 Race Report: Category 4/5 (32+) What a great 4 days of racing. We couldn't have asked for a better weekend for the GMSR. Mike Claus and I have been strategizing for weeks and with some luck and a lot of support from Mike, it all came together. In the prologue, up App. gap, I felt like I had left my climbing legs back at the last Tuesday night ride. Mike passed me and gave me a nudge to get a move on it. He then surged to break up the pack. I was able to hold on to third and Mike came in just behind in 5th. In the circuit race, our strategy was to try and get a break going after the KOM. We tried on both of the loops but no one else was that interested and neither break stuck for more than a couple of miles. We both finished in the middle of a 50 man pack sprint. It was nice to see Jamie Wright from SMCC take third in a great sprint for the line. On the day of the road race, Mike and I were both feeling a lot more confident. We had planned to see how we felt at Middlebury gap to see if we should go for the KOM. One rider went early and once again I found Mike on my left nudging me to get a move on it. He towed me up to the solo break and I was able to go around for the KOM. Things slowed considerably when the 40+ race passed us and we were fairly well rested before App. Gap. Mike and I were in good position going into the final 2 mile climb and no one wanted to work the hill. Mainly to avoid a sprint up the last 200 meters, I went with a little under 2 miles and I was able to stay away confident that Mike was going to cover anyone that tried to bridge up. In fact, Mike covered everything and then sprinted past the group for 2nd. With the KOM points and the win in the road race, I found myself in first in GC going into the crit. Avoiding crits all summer long seemed like a fine strategy for someone who likes hills until I was forced to ride one to protect my lead in the GC. Once again, Mike was there in the front forcing the pace for much of the race, while I struggled like hell to stay in the top 20. In the end, we both finished in the top ten which was good enough to keep me in first and Mike in fourth in the overall standings. Submitted by Stuart Abramson Results: Stuart Abramson wins GC! cat 4 35+
Saco Criterium and Scarborough Road Race ME, 8/23-24 Saco/Scarboro Race Report - Women's Cat 4 by Rhonda Morin Saco Crit: - Little harder than I expected this year. Pace was pushed several times, which quickly dashed my hopes for an attack & solo win (but that's exactly what Marianne did in the 1/2/3!!) - Second lap (i think), teammate Jen Bailey went down on corner 6 (that quick left then right area of course). Nasty, horrible sound of metal on pavement - Next time around Jen was up in a chair on the sidelines - thankfully alert, but was bandaged and didn't look too good. - Next time around she was in the ambulance. She ended up with a broken collarbone and a very smashed helmet. She will now certainly be a strong advocate for helmet safety! - Took a prime with three to go. The 1/2/3 had just passed us, so I took advantage of an otherwise confusing moment. - Lovely sprint finish (my favorite - not!), didn't position myself as I would have liked cause I was busy suckin' wind. - 8th overall in sprint. Not happy with that, but so it goes. Scarboro RR - 1st lap very confusing. Field played a bit dirty, but after yelling threats at them, we got it under control and settled in. - Second time up that hill hurt by golly. What's up with that? - Regained my composure on false flat and tried attacking twice on Holmes Road to no avail. I just managed to start a long train. - Really wanted to avoid a sprint finish. - 500 meters from line women were neutralized cause of men's race crash. Carnage all over the road, fire truck, confusion. - Women's pace car came to a complete stop by the fire truck. So we piled behind it. I had stopped right in back of pace car. - I've been in the position before, so knew exactly what I had to do. - As soon as that pace car hit the gas I clipped in and dashed off, apparently before anyone in the field realized it, cause with 100m to go I looked behind me and no one had jumped on. - I took the win, hands up in the air and not a soul noticed cause there was so much chaos going on with the crashes. So I just cheered myself on. Photo damn finish for me in I can't even remember how long, and no one to clap for me. - I'm calling it "How to make the best out of a chaotic situation." - It's a bike race; anything can happen. Results for the Criterium: Masters 55/65:JIM SHAFER 8th (Silver for state championship) Results for the Road Race: Juniors 15-18: CONNOR CUSHMAN 7th, CHRIS TALBOT 12th, DAN
SANDBERG 17th, DARRELL HOY 18th, MORGAN MACLEOD (crashed)
11th Annual MT. WASHINGTON AUTO ROAD BICYCLE HILLCLIMB - 7.6 Miles Aug. 16 Gorham, NH Ages u19: 3rd 1:20:46 5.6 Peter Stetson, Age 50-54 1st 1:09:56 6.5 William R. Black story submitted by Bill Black: I had a good ride at Mt. Washington (won the 50+ and set the record). I had hoped to do more racing this year but I will have to listen to the medicos and accept what limits they put on me. One of the PVC juniors placed in the Juniors at Mt. Washington -- 3d I think in the Junior category; what a rugged day once above treeline it was 60mph winds and times were generally about 3 to 5 minutes slower. I spoke with Danielson and he did the first 1/2 in 23 minutes pacing himself and then 28 minutes for the second half; it was unbelievable how strong the wind was. Walking to the lodge at the top after I finished I was holding my bike's handlebars like a kite string with the bike being lifted off the ground -- never seen the like of it. Story by Peter Stetson: Did washington saturday with Charley and my Dad (all three of us made it up).
I took 98th with a time of 1:20, which ended up being 3rd in the 19 and under
cat. Charley went up in 1:42 and took 6th in the under 19. my dad went up in
2:15. The winds at the top were nuts! 35 steady with gusts of 60!! the fog was
also so thick that you couldn't see 20 ft in front of you on the road. So, the
big 22% at the end literally jumped out at you and all of a sudden there you
were on top of it. It was cool though. Ciao, Central New Hampshire Road Race Bow, NH August 10 Men Cat 3: 5 Toby Walch, 12th Geoffrey Johnson, 38th Ron Colavolpe, Men Cat 4 32nd Fritz Boettner, 43rd Charles Goldman, Masters 35+: 4th Stuart Abramson Masters 45+ 5th Graydon Stevens 22nd Annual Concord Criterium, Corcord, NH August 9 Mens cat 3: 47 Geoffrey Johnson , Juniors u19:
4th Geoffrey Johnson, 12 Morgan Macleod, 22nd Travis Lee, 23rd Aaron Gilbert,
Master 35+: 96th Stuart Abramson, Masters 45+: 15 Graydon Stevens
Masters Nationals, Louisville, KY August 6th Crit, 9th
Road race. Submitted by: Chris Karam Tour of the Hilltowns, Northampton Cycling Club, Windsor,
MA July 27 Attleboro Criterium, Attleboro, MA July 12th Cat 4, Fritz Boetner 21st, Charles Goldman 28th Cox Charities Crit in Providence, RI-July 13th Cat 4 - Charles Goldman got 11th !Cat 3 - Greg Hutchinson 32nd Longsjo Stage Race Fitchberg, MA 6/28-July1 Race report by Rhonda Morin- Women's Cat 4 Perspective Highlights *4th in GC! I was in the money! *Hotter 'en hell *Day One - TT. Shaved 1:12 minutes off TT (thanks Jeff F. for the use of the bars). *Day 2 - Circuit Race. Circuit Race was blinding hot. Max heartrate was 196. How did I not stroke out? Finished in peloton. Damn that hill hurts. Who cares about points? I was just trying to get up that hill. *Day 3 - Mountain "Thank the Lord" Stage. Take that, all you sprinters!
Awesome, fantastic stage. I love this part. Seven of us broke from peloton in
second lap up Princeton hill, worked hard together and put more than 2 minutes
on the field. We were smokin'. I took 2nd in a QOM, and should-a, could-a, would-a
in another, but lost my head and forgot I could sprint *Day 4 - Crit. Strategy was to tire out the leader by trying to solo break.
I had a 5 second gap at one point, but it was pitifully *I held 4th in GC by one second. So don't let anyone tell you seconds (or pennies) don't matter cause they all add up in the end. Ended with 30 points in the Verge Sprints, good for 6th place. *PVC teammate Jen Bailey had a great finish in her first Longsjo. She finished 13th in the GC, captured 6th in the circuit & crit, 11th in the mountains and 27th in TT. She will only get better in the years to come. Expect a stage win or a GC win from her. *Corrie Roberts and Laurie Krzywda of Maine also put in gallant efforts. Corrie snagged 27th in the mountains, while Laurie had a fantastic field finish in the crit. Corrie took a tumble in the crit with 1 to go, thanks to a wheel jump from a rider in front of her. She left a little of herself on the pavement. More PVC results GC: Juniors: Geoff Johnson 28th, Morgan Macleod 49th (post crash), Women Cat 4: Rhonda Morin 4th, Jennifer Bailey 13th, Men Cat 4: Chris Green 33rd, Greg Hutchinson 80th, 2003 Senior Olympics, Chesapeake, VA June 2003 PVC's Jim Shafer competed in the 2003 National Senior Games recently. These age class races included many talented National Level Riders. Jim, who competes in the 60+ age catagory and had the following results: Road Race: 9th, and 8th place and in the Time Trial 10th. Jim was 10 overall! From what you may have read about these races there was a horrendous crash that caused a lot of shake up in the peleton. Luckily Jim was not involved! Country Kitchen Great Falls Criterium,
Auburn, ME, 6/8/2003 Charles Goldman's race report: PVC was out in full force this past Sunday and had some excellent results! In the Junior race, the all-star team of Morgan MacLeod and Geoff Johnson teamed up to break away into a 2-man time trial after two laps into the race and held it off the entire time with Morgan taking 1st and Geoff 2nd! In the Mens Cat 3 race, Chris Karam won the field sprint for 3rd, followed closely be Ron Colavolpe in 9th. The Mens Cat 4 race had a huge turn out with five riders sporting the blue and yellow. Former Bowdin star Toby Walsh was able to hold a break away by himself for close to ten laps, crossing the line alone for 1st! Back in the main field, Geoff Johnson (that's right, the same one who had raced only a few hours before) won the field sprint for 3rd, while the remain PVC members of Chris Green, Greg Hutchinson, and Charles Goldman filled up the remaining top ten spots with 6th, 7th, and 10th; in that order. In the Womens Cat 4 Rhonda Morin and Jen Bailey worked together with Jen taking 2nd and Rhonda placing 6th. The Mens 35+ saw Graydon Stevens take 13th with Stuart Abramson following close behind in 17th. And in the Mens 45+, Graydon hammered up the hill a few more to place 6th, while Jim Shafer raced the Mens 55+, placing 10th. Rhonda Morin's Race Report: My Goal was to finish in the pack on this one. I knew that little spit of a hill on High Street was gonna be a leg burner. Pace was fast for first 6 or so laps. I was praying for a slow down, and finally got it. Went neck and neck for the second prime and thought I had it after throwing the bike over the line, but apparently the other woman had longer arms. Drat!! Last lap the slow twitched muscled women hammered and I didn't have enough juice to hang. Finished 6th out of 7th in that lead pack. Jen Baiiley played her cards very well and was able to jump on a wheel and finished second again! Very impressive. We've got talent here on PVC. Be watching this woman!! Junior Men Under 18: Morgan Macleod 1st, Geoff Johnson 2nd!.Cat 3 Men:Chris Karam 3rd!, Ron Calavople 9th, Men Cat 4 Toby Walsh 1st, Chris Green 6th, Greg Hutchinson 7th. Women Cat 4: Jen Bailey 2nd! Rhonda Morin 6th, 11th place ? Master Men 35+ Graydon Stevens 13th Stuart Abramson 17th, Masters Men 45+ Graydon Stevens 6th, Masters Men 55+ Jim Shafer 10th Sun Journal Lake Auburn Road Race, Auburn ME 6/7/03 Rhonda Morin's Race Report:: - Women's Cat 4 22 miles
for Women's Cat 4. There were 26 starters and 19 finishers in my race. There
were four PVC riders including Jen Bailey, Becky D. and one other woman new
to racing (sorry, don't know your name). I had teammates, finally!! The pace
started off pretty steady. During one smaller climb, someone swerved and nearly
took others out, but I think she recovered and got back on. Somewhere out there
in the hills I managed to bridge a gap with the leader who had pulled out ahead
about 50 yards. Brought Jen up to her, then promptly went rubber legged and
took about a mile to check back on. Thank goodness for down hills! RESULTS: Junior Men Under 18: Geoff Johnson 1st!, Morgan Macleod 5th. Cat 3 Men:Chris Karam 2nd!, Ron Calavople 6th, Men Cat 4 Chris Green 4th, Chris Cyr 23rd. Women Cat 4: Jen Bailey 2nd! Rhonda Morin 8th, 11th place ?, Mens cat 5: Pat Cushman 33rd. Master Men 35+ Stuart Abramson 11th, Mike Clauss 15th, Masters Men 45+ Graydon Stevens 6th, Masters Men 55+ Jim Shafer 8th New England Crit Championships 06-01-03 Ashburnham Grand Prix 05-31-03 Hartford Criterium 05-25-03 East Hartford Criterium 05-24-03 Sunapee Road Race, Sunapee, NH 5/17/03 Spring Season is starting to wind down
and we were off to a cool start with Stuart Abramson, Andy Whelen and me in
the 35+ race at Sunapee, NH. With many of the usual suspects in the 35+ field
off doing the Kennedy Crit in Cape Cod this year’s race was wide open.
After a couple of early breaks I went off with an Arc-en-ceil rider on the back
side of the course. We were caught by Hank pulling the group along at the top
of one of the harder rollers. Hank charged by with a full head of steam and
the pace kept up. On the next roller Hank took seven folks off the front, including
Stuart and a CCB rider. With CCB blocking on the front the group went away pretty
quick and that was the break. Lap two was at a fairly easy pace as we never
got the boys back in sight. I managed 5th in the field sprint for 12th overall
but Stuart was the big story with 2nd place, being nicked at the line by the
CCB rider. In other races Chris Karem took 3rd and Ron Colavolpe 6th in the
Cat 3 race and Graydon pulled a wheelsucker all the way to the line for 2nd
in the 45+. I did not get results from Chris Green to see if he improved on
last week’s 8th place at Sterling in Cat 4. (Editors note: Chris Green
Took 4th in Cat 4!!) Marieanne Stover may start getting pro offers as she won
the Women’s race with a hard kick at the line.--
Submitted by Mike Claus PVC Juniors were out in force at Sunapee also: Morgan and Jeoff kicked some arse in the Junior Division. Both working for a top finish! Geoff Johnson takes 2nd and Morgan Macleod 4th Brunswick Criterium, Bowdoin campus, Brunswick, ME 5/11/03 A nice criterium for PVC, with new club members Daven Donneley and Toby Walsh racing at the front, PVC Junior Morgan Macleod did a sick pulll for over 2 laps and almost got away for the race. He was reeled in eventually. Also taking some sick pulls was Graydon Stevenes, and Mike Laughlin. Paul Weiss Flatted lap 5....ooops, so I took some good pictures of the rest of the race! Sterling Road Race, Sterling, MA 5/10/03 -Rhonda Morin' race report: Cat 4 Women's Race: Warm, sunny day. Perfect racing weather. There were about 26 or thereabouts at the line - with 24 finishers. The course is mostly downhill or flat except for the lovely in-town hill which is also the site of the finish. It's a thigh burner for sure. I could definitely feel it the second time, the ol' legs reminding me what I haven't yet done for training this season. The peloton was fairly mellow. There were no breaks to speak of. A few of us did get off the front the second time up the hill, but we slowed upenough to let others get back on, despite my protests to kick it into gear. On our last lap, we were neutralized as the Men's Master 35 passed. Just as they did and our pace car was still rolling slow, one woman went down and may have taken another for two out. I saw it coming. Her attention was being diverted, she held her water bottle in her hand, the pace had slowed considerably. All the classic signs of danger. I had dropped back away from her, cause I was weary of what come happen. Sure enough! Just then the pace car picked up and the rest of us took off. The final sprint is a blur. I was in good position to start, but didn't have a lot of juice left to do any damage, so I just hung in as best I could. The ol' thigh muscles began to seize and that's when I decided to just finish and not try to get by anyone else. I knew the money only went 8 deep, and I probably could have caught one more rider, but since there was no glory in it, I decided to finish with my muscle still intact. I thought I counted 9 in front of me at the finish, but the results posted that afternoon said I was 11th. A satisfactory start of the season for me. Dick Ring was all about Marianne Stover in the Women's 1,2,3. He has her going pro anytime!! Though I didn't see her race, she did very well capturing 4th place! Way to go. Mike Clauss's race report: The Sterling Road Race marked the first shorts, cotton socks and short sleeve race of the year and the boys in 35+ were riding fast in the sunshine. On the backside of lap 2 of 6 in this 48 mile race, CCB, Arc-en-Ceil and Graydon (if you’re wondering why GS was riding with the youngsters, there was no 45+ field) were at the front trying to split the field. The pack split up a bit but everything came together on the straightaway the next lap. Graydon took a breather till lap 4 when he went uphill into the wind and the group split again only to be pulled back by CCB setting things up for their boys. Arc-en-Ceil then sent a lone rider up the road who dangled off the front for a bit until Graydon made one last surge forcing the entire pack to go single file into the straight away 2 miles from the finishing hill. Attacks started popping off the front and coming back until about ½ mile to go when John McCone of CCB put his head down and buried himself at the front pulling teammate Randy Ruiz along to take the uphill sprint finish. While Graydon had nothing left for the finish I followed John Grenier in the uphill sprint for somewhere around 20th. Greg Hutchinson and Chris Green rode the Cat 4 for PVC but I don’t have results for those boys. Rochester Criterium Rochester, NH
5/4/03
Jiminey Peak Road Race 5/3/03 Submitted by Mike Claus Monson Road Race, Monson, MA 4/27/03 In the Mens 3/4 race Geoff Johnson 16th, and Peter Stetson 22nd, and in the 4/5 race, Chris Green took 2nd and Gregory Hutchinson 30th, Graydon Stevens took 1st in 50+ race and Cris Karam 4th, and Ron Colavolpe 30th in the 30+ race Palmer Road Race Palmer MA,4/26/03 Morgan Macleod 33rd 4-5, Graydon Stevens 2nd in 45+, Eastford road race Eastford, CT 4/13/03 PVC was back in the racing saddle on Sunday 4/13/03 at the Eastford road race in northern Connecticut. Our Cat 4 group of Mike Claus, Greg Hutchinson, Chris Green and Charles Goldman stayed with the pack through 4 laps of a narrow, twisty nine mile circuit. After a couple of riders slipped off the front early and the pack was completely uninterested in chasing, Chris, myself and several other riders made brief attacks that came for nothing and we wound up with a pack finish for placing. Chris tried to lead things out from the front and had not enough and was swarmed. I stayed right and was caught behind the women’s wheel van about 20 back. Greg stayed left and powered up the final climb for 3rd in the field sprint and sixth overall. In other races Morgan Macleod placed in the juniors as the boys were knocking elbows all across the road in an exciting sprint finish and Marianne Stover took 5th in the Women’s race (top Cat 3) with her Gearworks crew.
-- Mike Claus Marblehead Circuit Race Marblehead, MA 4/12/03 Just a quick note on one of the first of many PVC race
results. Chris Green Jr placed 25th in this weekend's Marblehead Circuit Race
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