Alleycat!

Drunk Dodger 5001 was Saturday night in Albany and it was my 1st ever alleycat race.

*alleycat: An illegel bicycle race through an urban environment, with no real race course, only checkpoints*

I decided to use the roadie and bike over to Albany. I really had no clue what I was doing, and my main objective was to finish. We would get 5 sheets, each with 5 or so locations/questions that could only be answered at those locations. Once you finished a sheet you'd get another to work on.

I (we) made some mistakes, even when I started working/riding with J from Steiners. When we finished sheet 2 we were told we were in 3rd/4th! cool. but then we wasted 10-15 minutes on one I already knew (but 2nd guessed myself). It was pretty fun/insane to be racing all over Albany, blasting red lights, passing cars, people asking us what to hell we were doing. So with 2 answers left to get we see another strong rider and he already had the one we were headed to, that one wasnt too far away and then we saw him again at the last one - all that was left was the climb to the finish (a bar!). I drafted J a bunch that night so I had no plans to go for a sprint to beat him to the finish. Soze checked our sheets and I gota "2" witten on mine.
me: "Huh, whats the 2 for"
Soze: "2nd place"
me: "Woo hoo!!!".

I checked the time, it was midnight - 3 hours to do the race, way longer then I expected. So we hung out, drank some beer, waited for the others to finish, then they did awards - I grabbed the roadie carbon bars. more hanging out, then up to "217" for food. Finially I started my commute back home, it was past 4am by the time I got there.

Overall the race was pretty crazy and way fun, I had such a great time and meet some pretty cool people.

909 & All Hollows

909 race

http://www.usacycling.org/events/getflyer.php?permit=2007-2450

Saturday, Oct 27th, night TT race.


All Hollows

change to start time/length
Female Open 2 hours 9:00 AM
Pro/Expert 2 hours 9:00 AM
Singlespeed 2 hours 9:00 AM
Sport Men 2 hours 9:00 AM
Unicyclists 2 hours 9:00 AM

Rock on.

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All Hollows Mtn bike race

be there or be sqaure!

http://www.bikereg.com/events/ConfList.asp?EventID=5394

Presented byOutside Adventures- Heather Mosley
Schenectady, NY
Sunday, October 28, 2007


CATEGORY
DISTANCE
START TIME
FEE
PRIZES

Pro/Expert
2 hours
8:30 AM
$30
Cash top three

Female Open
1 hours
11:00 AM
$25
Cash Top Finisher, Prizes

Singlespeed
1 hours
11:00 AM
$25
Cash top finisher, Prizes

Sport Men
1 hours
11:00 AM
$20
Cycling Gear top Three

Unicyclists
1 hours
11:00 AM
$20
Cycling Gear top three

Look who is NYS XC Champion!

Plattekill #4

I won race #4 in the Plattekill / NYS championship series Sunday. The course was changed up some, with a new never ridden nasty downhill, wet, loose shale, drops, pretty much like riding a DH trail there. I was in 2nd figuring just maintain my spot, finish up & win the series, then I round a corner and there is the leader Scott with a mechanical, so I spent the rest of the race pushing hard not knowing if he's 45 seconds back or DNF'd. I did hold him off, and more importantly finished and won the series (expert class) !!

Donuts & Buffalo roadie ride

Yes, you will see a few Buffalos and yes you will eat hot apple cider donuts!

My place, 8:45 am tomorrow (saturday)

50-60 miles, no killer climbs this time.

VT50

My 1st attemopt at the Vt50 report:
Reg'd Saturday, then dinner with pigboy & JBP & their relatives, & off to bed early.
Out of the Hotel at 4:45am, racer meeting at 5:30...and it was cold! (38).

I went off in the 1st wave at 6:15, course was mix of dirt roads, single track & double track and a TON of climbing (8500ft), they had 9 rest stops stocked with anything from bacon to gummie bears to watermelon! (so I heard, I didnt stop at any). I screwed up on one turn early, lost maybe 5 minutes, and never felt like I was riding strong but was only off my time goal by 12 minutes.

The start was nuts - it was semi dark, I had no clue of the course...the 1st few miles were slightly downhill dirt roads, picture 150 plus mtn bikers bunched up doing 25-30mph and no one had a light!!! Even thou it was a 50 mile loop there was almost always another rider around which is cool. Sometimes the climbs seemed to never (and I mean never!) stop. The course was pretty awesome, not very technical - and I cant really remember a flat section - you were either climbing or descending. The volunteers rocked! So many people out on the course cheering you on....I hope they know how appreciated that was. And all of the riders were cool, I had no passing or getting passed issues.I know I did an extra .5 miles but according to my cyclometer I had 52 miles...when you're spent and expecting it be done at 50.5, that extra 1.5 of climbing is Brutal !

Hmm, what else...BrynaN won expert/pro SeniorII, and was 2nd female in behind Lea Davidson (pro trek rider)!!
My female Hardcore 24 teammate (LaurenK) won sport SeniorII division!
My other Hardcore teammate/friend (JenL) won Novice SeniorII!
And JohnPeters was 2nd in Novice MasterII!
Awesome job you all!!

My time was 5:41 which put me in 5oth/79 in expert/pro Vet - and 150th out of 686 overall. Next year, top 100??

Besides all the food/drink stops, everyone got a finish medal, a tshirt and hat at Reg, plus a BBQ afterwards. I hung out after for several hours chatting with various friends, oh and there was a band too.

When I left at 4:30 I noticed people still fininshing.....thats a long time to be racing your mtn bike

Crazy, epic, tough, painful and amazingly well organized. I'll be back next year.

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