Sep 21, 2013 at 12:08 AM
the line forms behind me....
Kissena Club Championships
Sep 21, 2013 at 12:53 AM
- you don't need a front derailleur in prospect. stop looking for excuses to sleep in
Sep 21, 2013 at 02:08 AM
@hotList: Rigby...is the sleeping beauty& will B there if in final break...rene/katz. look-out!;-)
Sep 21, 2013 at 02:45 AM
Rigby? That guy hasn't done anything since WHAM! broke up....
Sep 21, 2013 at 05:09 AM
Well I just finished a very lengthy, and incredibly amazing meal at an exclusive Italian restaurant, rubbing elbows with actual wiseguys. I don't give a crap what happens in... 5 hours because I've already won.
Sep 21, 2013 at 10:08 AM
Dying here. First person to post the winner is the winner.
Sep 21, 2013 at 11:38 AM
To catch you up (race is still going):
Lap one Rene put in a little attack Brendan covering, and Aaron trying to bridge.
Lap two all back together with Pberg keeping tempo high at the front
Lap three Pberg, Rigby, Joquane & Ray-J all with a 5 gap to the field. Marc was on the point.
Looks like Eric and other are waiting till later in the race. WDC looked like he was having a blast. Didn't really see John M or Yacks. Bruce dropped his chain at the start, total bummer.
I was able to catch the first three laps at the top of the hill then I realized it's 6:30am f this I'm going back to bed.
Sep 21, 2013 at 12:37 PM
Ragot. That is all
Sep 21, 2013 at 02:00 PM
Ragot wins
#likeaboss
Sep 21, 2013 at 02:55 PM
Sep 21, 2013 at 03:07 PM
RAGOT!!
Sad to have to miss this one, dudes. It's been a pleasure to rub shoulders with you wise guys all year.
Sep 21, 2013 at 03:17 PM
Sep 21, 2013 at 03:27 PM
Hats off to Ragot for a sound strategy and a wicked kick in the sprint — serious kilo rider speed there.
Sep 21, 2013 at 04:05 PM
congrats Eric!
Sep 21, 2013 at 04:22 PM
Kilo? Faster than that!!! He he... Report later. Short version. Breaks didn't form. I was patient. I went hard at end. Fun day.
Sep 21, 2013 at 05:32 PM
Sep 21, 2013 at 05:36 PM
Sep 21, 2013 at 05:38 PM
What a great closer to the Road season. For those of you who can, please head over to twitter and knockout a #ThanksCharlie hashtag; he makes all these fun & games possible.
THANKS CHARLIE!
Sep 21, 2013 at 07:19 PM
At the track they call him the Hammer.
Congrats!!!
I'm bummed I over slept.
Congrats!!!
I'm bummed I over slept.
Sep 21, 2013 at 07:36 PM
Congratulations Eric. Rode a good race and went hard when it counted. Well done!
Sep 21, 2013 at 07:45 PM
nice job Kissena. totally swept the podium
Sep 21, 2013 at 08:50 PM
Results bro:
http://results.prtiming.com/?page_id=142#/results::1379796244564
1. Ragot
2. Malcolmson
3. Perlberg
4. Herrera
5. Bertucco
6. Rigby
7. de Baca
8. Katz
9. Smolarski
10. Stokes
11. Johnston
12. Strika
13. Mehlenbeck
14. Bolick
15. Maronilla
Sep 22, 2013 at 07:33 AM
Čestitamo, Eric! Are you going to put some red and white checkers on your champion jersey?
Sep 22, 2013 at 12:10 PM
you knew this moment would arrive! gopro from the race: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dROeKREkSMk
Sep 22, 2013 at 12:55 PM
35:38....A Rigby wheel chop....followed by, "You're gonna die clown!"
Sep 22, 2013 at 01:02 PM
hahaha and you can hear me pleading..."I didn't mean to!"
Sep 22, 2013 at 02:14 PM
Sweet! Congrats Eric.
Sep 22, 2013 at 02:30 PM
Brendan, thanks for posting. I'm going to send the link to my coach and tell him to watch my closing meters attack to prove to him I still have "snap" and even after wanting to puke at least 3 times during that race, I can recover and get away from the likes of you guys when it counts! (now I just have to work on the "sustain" part of that equation)
Sep 22, 2013 at 03:35 PM
Minutes 51-56 you can see my final failed attack after a flurry of attacks/counters
I did notice about 1/3 of the way in that Ragot's legs were shaved and he was nowhere near the front... a surefire sign he meant business.
Unusual race; strange report.
I'd planned to do Charm City this weekend but the combination of a family-wide flu and some peer pressure "Dude, you've got to do the Club Champs, its the most fun race ever!' led me to:
a) miss pre-reg for Charm City and
b) reg at the last minute for the Club Champs
On friday I took the Dark Knight down and wiped the dust off (real, actual dust) before putting some air in the tires and heading out to do some openers.
The bike felt strange; light, twitchy, short cranks... fast. Nothing at all like the Cross bike.
5am the next day I crawl out of bed and try to remember what my park race ritual was... oatmeal, an egg... something to drink... good enough.
My goal was a really hard, fun (safe) race that would substitute for a weekend of CX riding. I was a little nervous; after almost a month without racing everything felt new again.
I rolled through the fog to reg where a fleet of randomly deployed Nickelodeon trucks was threatening to cancel the entire race...
Before long the whistle blew and we were off to a pretty frantic pace - and by frantic I mean surgy, slowey, blazing, slowy... somehow we were caught by the 4's, then we recaught and passed the 4's, then towards the end we were neutralized again so the 4's could pass and have their final lap...
I did my best to go with moves I thought were dangerous, and do as little work as I could otherwise - the problem was - too many dangerous riders!
We all let Perlberg go but when Ragot decided to chase, it was time to follow...
Ditto for so many dangerous combinations.
I did notice about 1/3 of the way in that Ragot's legs were shaved and he was nowhere near the front... a surefire sign he meant business.
When things were hard, they were very hard - I threw up a little at one point, as Jeff W would say, "Did I just swallow a penny?"
As we approached 2 to go there was a flurry of attacks/counters/counter-
Sadly nobody came and they let me dangle (two minutes at 400 if anybody cares) - I felt blown enough by the finish that my prospects seemed to be "get slaughtered when we get to the hill" or "get murdered at the top when the bombs start flying" so I sat up to watch the finish.
MISTAKE (note to self, never, ever trust Brain again. Just stab him with a q-tip and keep pedaling, you never know until you try)
Overall it was a fun race; many more attacks from strong people; but everybody seemed marked and there always seemed to be chasers.
One note for some of the newer riders; when you see that small (or huge) pothole DO NOT RIDE AROUND IT no matter how fast/quick you think you are the sudden LEFT! RIGHT! you do is incredibly dangerous. YOU HAVE TO RIDE YOUR LINE As in ride. Your. F-ing. Line! You are the Juggernaught. You just ride thought that shit, k?
Also, no cussing at other fields. Period.
As we rode up the hill for the first or second time the fog was really beautiful; I'm not sure who it was who pointed wordlessly, but to spite all of the oxygen debt I looked over and the view made the whole race worth it.
My favorite moment was afterwards when Erika observed that her strava page had literally exploded with PR's in the first ten minutes. She has promised a screenshot 
Sep 22, 2013 at 10:43 PM
avg power = down 8 watts weight = up 5 lbs. These are not complimentary metrics...