Mar 23, 2011

Wednesday Worlds #2 Forest Down Beanblossom

About 20 riders, including 3 Women, met at the Sample Gates tonight at 6pm for the 2nd edition of the Wednesday Worlds. Today’s course would take us through Hindustan to the MM State Forest then down Beanblossom to finish on Anderson after two 14 mile circuits. There was a steady, strong wind out of the West and South today that was picking up in intensity once the ride got underway. The ride was neutral through Hindustan and many of us knew that after that would be our Waterloo. We rode tempo to this point but once we crested onto the false flats of that hellish section the desperation of the moment washed over us like a bad dream. Rose, Shei, Hamilton, Atwell, Shanahan forced the issue and split the peleton into four groups just before the pitch into the Forest proper. Pilling, Saccone, Stuart, Palmer, Preske, Ibold, Paul Levy and Josh from Nebo formed the initial second group. Just behind was Urbanski, Arvin, Gleason, Cobb, Fredrickson and Em Palmer. From this point forward, you’ll have to rely on the posts of the leaders, as my world was getting dark, but I can tell you that a painful religion came quickly to us in the second group as we tried to keep the leaders in our sights. Once we sorted out our roles in the chase we began to chip away at the lead, but we would ultimately run out of real estate and desire as we came around the Forest climbs for the second lap. At the bottom of Beanblossom our group began to shed layers as Palmer, Stuart and Pilling kept the pressure on with Saccone, and Preske and Levy struggling to hang on. In the final kilometer Palmer took the long leadout role and launched Pilling with Stuart in tow. A quick acceleration from Pilling at the 200m mark was all he needed to win the field sprint with the young Stuart finishing with the same time. As for the leaders, well, I can only guess!

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

hamilton and shanahan were doing their own thing

Anonymous said...

Ren-Jay,

You took the sprint. You wanna do the honors of writing a report or shall I?

Cheers,
Fred

RJ said...

Fred-

Go for it, make sure you include the detail that Atwell had Diet Monster in both of his water bottles, haha.

RJ

Anonymous said...

I thought Erik and Ryan easily rode off the front for the top two spots.

Anonymous said...

Hi Erik,

Erik and Ryan rode away at the Base of Firehouse when we were shepherding the group to the, already stated, start of the race at the top of the pig farm. Previous conversation with Erik suggested he was doing 2x20 efforts (which they did). Whatever the both of them were doing they weren't racing and aren't scored.

Cheers,
Fred

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Anonymous said...

OK, OK, enough fun. There was definitely some nose tweaking going on here and I think Ryan may have posted anonymously to get a certain someone's goat. (Sorry for thinking it was you Erik)

As soon as I get a chance I'll give a full ride report later today.

Cheers,
Fred

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Anonymous said...

Good song Rj

RJ said...

that wasn't me... note that i wasn't logged in...

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Anonymous said...

it cant be that hard to just learn the hoosier climbers names.

rmsmallm said...

The climber was Paul Levy.

Tom Saccone said...

My apologies to Paul. I've seen him ride a few times but never really had the chance to meet him. I wrote the race report at work and had trouble finding Hoosier Climber information on-line when I checked. I was directed to a facebook page, but didn't see any pictures. Again, my apologies. Paul rode a strong ride and was a significant part of the chase. Tom S.

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Kaytea said...

When I posted "Paul Levy, the caveman", I was referring to what his coach said about him. There was no offence taken by him by my comment (that I showed him immediately after I posted it) or that you didn't know his name. I think he preferred the anonymity.
Anyway, just wanted to explain that there was no malice in my