On Sunday October 6, 2013, the Metropolitan Cycling Association is presenting the Pete Senia Memorial bicycle race. You can get more information at www.newyorkbicycleracing.com. This event will be held in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, NY. The start finish line and registration is at the wil-link triangle. The entrance is on Flatbush avenue near Ocean Ave. Parking is not available in the park so you must park out side the park and ride into the park.

Park Notes: No riding against traffic on the roadway. No riding on walkways. Please use the restrooms provided by the Parks Department. No riding in the joggers lane ever! 

Pete Senia was a consummate bicycle race fixture in the New York as well as the national bicycle racing scene. You can read his story at: http://www.avdgraphics.com/MCA/Pete%20memorial/PeteMCA.html.

Last week I stumbled onto race-results.com. Yes late to the party as usual. I found it fascinating. Each rider has stats on the site. Along with the stats are the headings—Nemeses or Victims. Nemeses, for that a particular rider loses to. And of course victims are those who do not have a snowballs chance in hell against that rider.

So I went to the results of the 2013 Criterium New York http://www.bikereg.com/Results/2013/09/28-crit-ny.asp  held in Floyd Bennett field on September 28 and saw who were the nemeses and victims of the winners.

For example:

The winner of the Master 45+ George Suter was listed as follows

Nemeses: William Thomson, Andrew Melnychenko, Doug O’Neil, John Olsen, Kevin Kolodziejski, Robert Orange, Doug Chiasson.

Victims: Bob Meikle, Robert Stern, Christophe Wilkes and Tim Borsetti

However, the victims list for the winner of the cat 3 race, Sameul Frias was very impressive. As impressive as the jabs after last weeks win.

Victims: Robert Lombardi, Stefan Singer, Egor Astakhov, Samuel Barker, Christopher Chong-tenn, George Schroeder, Samuel Torres, Justin Tyberg

Even the Category 4 winner Nick Jurman had an impressive amount of talented victims on his page. I was shocked to see Eli Curt Fuld as his number one victim followed by Stephen Chang, Erick Fernandez, Kavaugh Blake, Brett Halpern, Peter Rugel and Todd Brilliant.

Technology is really making hiding your skills as a racer tough. But me as a race promoter will do the best I can to create opportunities for riders like Eli to move from victim to nemeses.

That being said, I am a firm believer in making your voice heard with registration. If you do not like what a promoter or any other business for that matter you take your business else where. And last week (well for a lot of the MCA races) the Pro,1,2,3 field continued to vote and vocalize about how our races do not suit their needs. Well we have heard you. And cancelling the Pro,1,2,3 field at the Pete Senia Memorial Race. This year we will replace it with a category 3 field.

And as we move forward we will continue to make changes so we can reach and service the most amount of racers as possible.

We will also give out medals for all those cat 5 racers who finish. All events will be long enough to get upgrade points for each field. Results will be posted on www.USACYCLING.org and bikereg.com.

Come out on Sunday and get upgrade points or move from victim to nemeses, but only if your good enough.

Please preregister for this Sundays event. https://www.bikereg.com/Net/2013-pete-senia-memorial

Again we thank you for racing with us.