Below is an image of the 2012 race bikes. It has a classic feel to it.
8 years ago
Nov 2, 2011
Times are changin' at Womens L5
The new race director makes his first big change with the announcement that the 2012 Womens Little 500 will run under the lights at 7.30pm. I assume the strategy is to get some more spectators through the turnstyles and running the race under the lights will really add to the atmosphere. It will certainly be more raucous with the students having the chance to drink all day before the event and hopefully the flood-lights will be good enough prevent any increased danger. I imagine it'll be a lot of fun, look for Teter to take the chequered flag at around 9pm!
Below is an image of the 2012 race bikes. It has a classic feel to it.
Below is an image of the 2012 race bikes. It has a classic feel to it.
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I must say that is quite the ugly bike.
ABOUT TIME I"VE SAID THAT FOR YEARS!
Will it be harder to see wrecks from across the track? It's nice that it will be less windy most likely.
Love the move!
Anon 11am- I think the tents and mobs of people take care of that. Light will not be a problem.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe sunset is around 8:30pm that time of year. So really we are only looking at the last half hour under the lights. Could be really cool - especially if they bring back the fireworks just Chap is waving the checkered flag and DG is celebrating their second L5.
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/19822.html?emailID=19822
Please continue with the Womens race 'trashtalk'. We don't have enough of that on this board!
There is nowhere near enough light for TV coverage. Don't equate your being able to see in the dark with HDNet having sufficient light to shoot HD.
1:54 is correct. Remember the lights are aimed at the infield not the track. Re aiming them would be expensive and additional lights are pretty expensive too.
That would suck if it wasn't a good pic for HD as that's how I watch
Did DG get some new riders that are faster? That would be helpful.
Is CVK coming back this year? If so, you can just give her some flash lights to hold up while she is saluting the crowd and that should help light the way.
Bailey should move the mens race to under the lights as well. That would be even more epic and draw a larger crowd then the womans race.
Have the men go Friday and the women on Saturday.
Definitely would like to see the men's race at night. Both races at night. HD net would be fine. The lights at Armstrong are great. ITTs and team pursuit have never been an issue and the whole stadium is lit up, not just the field.
Plus it would give them more time to prepare the track between the two races. I think Jordan should hold a meeting where teams discuss the logistics and then each team gets one vote.
Best women's rider this year? Any takers? Lauren Gowdy is supposedly hurtin people CVK style.
Hutchenson, Caughlin, Ottenweiler, Phillips, Doogs. That is all.
Yes, she is sure to tear people up in Little 50.
Double check the start time for the women. IUSF has it as 6:00PM on the website.
David
Better watch out for Kathleen from theta...she's got a year under her belt now
@2:19 No, it's true. she is the fastest female Little 5er on campus right now. You'll find out when you ride with her. Laugh now, cry later bitches.
who is coaching Theta this year? Kathleen has a lot of power that's for sure.
voting is stupid, little 5 riders just complain about everything, none of them are worth a lick as cyclists
Tell that to Eric Young or CVK. Even if you have won a few bikes races (doubtful), no one cares about your mild personal success except you and your mom. At least there is a nice following in Little 5 where scores of people come to watch and care about the outcome if their team wins. And it appears to me that you are "complaining" calling things stupid, and trying to make yourself look better than them. I hope that made you feel better about irrelevant self.
If you really want to make the race interesting set it up like a points race with sprints every 10 or so laps.
what good would that do? There usually only 4-5 teams still there after 20 laps and they attack eachother constantly on exchanges so essentially that already happens.
rumor has it that patches is coaching theta
Patches can't even coach himself
Great move doing it under the lights (mens race should stay during the day). Teter & Theta sprint it out for the win. Not sure there are any other teams that can hang......
Was theta on the lead lap last year?
nobody but cutters was on the lead lap last year both friday and saturday
theta was 5 laps down at the end
Does anyone have an idea what wing-it might look like this year? Definitely a great leader in Abigail.
They are the hardest training team in Little 500 for sure on the women's side. I heard they did the Hilly and then did a cyclocross race right after. If the series events had any riding in them besides a few meters or laps, they probably would have beaten Teter and their legs were tired from training so much. They have probably the 3 best coaches on the track and are fired up!
They advanced more riders than any other team in Street Sprints and one of their rookies made it to the semi-finals.
So anon 4:49 can fall under the Wing-it coaching staff. Any real opinions on the team
If the race was only a 200 meter sprint, Teter would still win with Hutchenson. Its not a 200 meter sprint, its a 100 lap relay race, but kudos to Wing It. I also don't understand how they would've beaten Teter if there was more riding when their legs were tired? 3 coaches? Tom, Sarah, and Ren-Jay?
Bri is their other coach and she is also the reason Teter is good in the first place. I think Teter does the same workouts Bri did when she raced for them.
Bri raced for Teter? Did they win any of those years? Why is she helping Wing It?
She got 2nd and 4th or something. She was the ITT record holder, hall of famer, and track national champion for IUCC but was unable to win the sprint in Little 5. She also had the team pursuit record that stood until Teter barely beat it this year. With Tom's knowledge and expertise, Sarah's experience and having won the race and Bri, it is an all star staff and Moeller is a great sprinter and was offered a chance to do track for IU but she turned it down to win this race. Their rookie is an experienced triathlete who did very well in the fall series and of course Abigail. Oh and they have an indoor state of the art training center with power meters. Need I say more?
I would hardly call the new record "barely" beating the old one. I believe it was at least 10 seconds, but you may want to double check. Those coaches may all be very qualified, were they around last year? Just looked at the results on IUSF's website, Teter didn't win until 2005 and Bri didn't do ITTs, did she graduate? Who was their coach all of those years? And still why is Bri helping Wing it? From watching the race on HDNet, I believe they had that training center last year as well. What do the other teams have? All of the Teter girls must be on roids if Wing It has all of that and didn't even finish on the same lap, but made it out of the big crash with Army and Alpha Chi Omega.
Bri had the ITT record too, but Kristi Hewitt, also of Wing-it holds that and the fast lap at Quals record.
The teter record was by over 10 seconds, but Bri did it when the wind was out and the track was shitty. That right there is about a 20 second difference. She is probably the 2nd fastest Little 5er ever behind Jenn Wangerin.
You mean the big crash where Army took Alpha Chi down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtiT4syg034
Did you find the weather conditions for that day somewhere online? It's amazing what you can look up these days. I'm sure Bri is very proud of her own team for beating her record. Why is she helping Wing It? I didn't know there was a fast lap at Quals record? Is there a list of the Quals lap times so we can compare how much faster she was than Teter when they set the Quals record? Or compare her time to Jess Sapp's who was an amazing sprinter. And how did you calculate that 20 second difference for Team Pursuit? Why hasn't any other team beat her record if it was such a bad track that day? I'm sure within the last 6/7/8 years the track had to be in better condition. Why can't we pay credit to where credit is due?
I graduated like a hundred years ago. Let's hear about who's good in 2011/12.
Oh, and for the record, it was more than 10 seconds and from what I hear, they were absolutely flying! Kudos to the Teter girls.
And I help out with Wing It, because they are the coolest kids on campus. Except for that Abigail chick, of course. Way too many sparkles for my taste.
-Bri
loving the conversation about the women's race, spices things up... but turning down track to win little 5? not sure about the correlation there... sorry to bring the boys into the women's convo, but young, west, a couple young cutters, rafferty, i think those dudes are doing alright in their little 5 careers after racing for iucc. and props to wing it for doing cyclocross after the hilly, but they had better be talking the talk while they have the chance because the track's a whole different ballgame and the teter girls know that. not to mention caughlin and gowdy got a lot of racing under their belts this summer while everyone else was probably hanging by the pool or something, so i wouldn't be so quick to talk... but please keep on doing so because this is interesting
The "coolest kids on campus" rarely win Little 500.
Way to pick up on sarcasm, idiot
"but they had better be talking the talk while they have the chance because the track's a whole different ballgame and the teter girls know that."
It seems to me that wing-it are the ones who are not "talking", they seem to be "doing"
I love that wing-it is training! That's a team on the up and up for sure. Teter is definitely training. Theta seems to be training. DG is in action. Are there anyother teams out there that are consistently training at least 5 days a week? It's the 25th, let's see some kind of intensity from the field.
...if you think wing it is not talking the talk you may want to check out their facebook page...lolz
I think some of these posters have been drinking too much from thy cup of toughness.
DG is Overrated. Their girls are putting on weight and can't ride more than a three lap set. Maybe that will change with Pam as coach ? My money is on teter, again. With Chris W at the helm and good riders I just don't care what you do it's not going to happen unless they get wound up in a crash. Crazier things have happened though just have to wait til April
This thread has really made me laugh. Can't wait to get back to Bloomington for the race. I'm glad the Wing-it team and smattering of fans have figured out how to post on this blog. If they could pedal as fast as they run their mouths, they might -- might! -- be able to crack into the top 5 this year, which, correct me if I'm wrong, would be a first for them. The way they've been trash talking, you'd think they were the Cutters (only without the wins to back it up). But please carry on! Other teams are actually focused on winning (and have been, in spite of your egomaniacal coach and "superior training").
They "cracked" the top 5 last year. You have the right to remain silent, that way you don't sound so despicably stupid.
Forgive me, they did come in fifth last year. The point still stands. That is hardly the stellar finish to justify this annoying amount of hype. And "You have the right to remain silent"? Are you a police officer? Thank you for granting me my due process of law. I had no idea we had a fifth amendment. Also, "despicably" is a confusing word choice given the context. Perhaps you should stop procrastinating at 12:38am and get back to your homework.
Annnoying amount of hype? They weren't even mentioned until like comment 30, a week after the original post.
It seems to me that you are the person with the problem. Wing-it is a viable team with a dedicated cast of coaches and riders and fans. This obviously bothers you to the point where you have to start insulting them.
enough of the women, lets talk about the mens race, the event that people actually go to watch and enjoy watching...
Finally, the sexist segue.
I usually only pay attention to the men's race. But the annoying and unjustified amount of hype coming from the Wing-it team has been really intriguing, given they've never been in the top 4 (thank you Anon @12:38am for clearing up their buzz-worthy fifth place finish last year). Here's more background -- one previous comment mentioned Wing-it's Facebook page, so I naturally checked it out. Absolutely hysterical! The things they were saying about themselves was really entertaining, and that has clearly translated into this blog. I'm only sad they chose to make the group private. Why did they do that? Maybe they became embarrassed by their own trash talk?
"given they've never been in the top 4"
Clever!
I just love it when someone comes on accusing others of exactly what they are doing. If you are so fucking brilliant quit hiding behind "Anonymous" and enlighten us as to your credentials.
Couldn't someone just shake some car keys at this person to keep them pacified so the grown-up adult world can move on without their mind numbing comments?
Ignore him, anything else he may have to say on any matter whatsoever has all the urgency of taking dating advice from Ted Bundy or culinary tips from Jeffrey Dahmer.
Goodness, you guys get defensive pretty easily. The question still stands, though: why'd you restrict your Facebook group after your own trash talking?
Let's not forget that Wing it dominated the series events last year and lost the race and this year was the opposite so anything can happen on raceday.
Who really gives a shit about their Facebook page. It is obvious that you have a problem with Tom, unless you were referring to Bri or Sarah as “maniacal”, in which case you should be more careful because either of them could kick your ass on or off a bike. Why don’t you take it up with him and in the mean time STFU.
What trash talking?
Bri the 2nd best rider of all time? I am not sure she is the 2nd best rider to have ridden for Teter. CVK and Rieke come to mind. Rieke is a completely different style of rider so hard to compare, but she did beat the ITT record and won the other series events plus a race win.
CVK (supported by great Teter team):
Race
2011: 1st, leads team to lap entire field by ~1.5 laps, first time in 24-year history of women's race
2010: 1st, by ~1/2 lap
ITT
2011: 1st (by 4 sec)
2010: 1st
Miss 'n Out
2011: 1st
2010: 1st
Team Pursuit
2011: 1st, breaks track record by 13 seconds, all 4 girls across line
2010: 1st
Quals
2011: 2nd
2010: 2nd
2009: 1st (track record)
I think the thing we forget about Bri was the fact she also had a VERY good team behind her. However, poor choices in using those weapons lead to a 2nd place finish and Chris becoming the coach the next year. The team was strong enough to win the following year with Rieke instead of Bri.
Men's race predictions???
Wing It
PDT
Cutters
Delts
Sigma Chi
How about a women's race prediction instead:
1. Teter
2. Theta
3. Wing-It
4. DG
5. Dana V's new team
6. Army
7. Kappa
8. Chi-Omega (they could rise higher)
9. AGD
10.Maybe Pi Phi?
Chi-O for the win. Without GP holding them back, they are destined for great things!
*oops, meant AXO with Kelsey Tharnstrom
Not sure of the final results but I think these five teams will be at the top. I can't see anyone else winning the race.
Cutters
PDT
Sigma Chi
BKB
Delts
Cutters WILL not win this year. That is all
Shouldn't your emphasis be on the NOT? Maybe a Freudian slip by putting it on the WILL?
Just an fyi: you can only control your race, so you might want to say that your team WILL win. Obsession with the Cutters has cost more than one team a race win.
And just to be clear, the Cutters are still the favorites.
did 4:18 say Phi Phi maybe top 10? Did you notice how they lost a half lap everytime Caroline got off the bike? They would be lucky to be 25th.
1) Kappa Alpha Theta
2) Delta Tau Delta
3) Teter
4) Cutters
5) Wing-It
6) Phi Delta Theta
7) Chi Omega
8) Phi Kappa Psi
9) Sigma Alpha Mu
10) Army
I heard CVK is studying abroad right now and is planning to come back for 2012, especially since its now under the lights. Anyone know anything about this?
If the Phi Delts ride like they did last year, they will win. Especially if they can get Grey Goat to do 1 lap bursts for them again. Everyone should be following them, not the Cutters.
Frat hard.
Count on Phi Delts to do something stupid and blow it. Is david ellis still around? If not, FIJI is screwed. RJ Stuart is good, but beyond that Delts is just ok (He'll have to ride almost half the race). Sigma Chi will be strong, Cutters will be strong but not strong enough to win, BKB will be strong, Beta will be up there as well. Not sure what to think about CRU just yet.
And to Todd, I don't know why you insist on always mentioning that the Cutters are the favorite. I don't think that past success automatically makes you the favorite. For example, once Peyton Manning was ruled out for what looks to be the entire season, everyone pretty much knew the Colts would be a very weak team. Can you think of a rider no longer with the Cutters whose absence from the 2012 line-up will make a drastic difference? Cutters will be up there, but i think its a stretch to call them a favorite. Phi Delts will be strong as long as they dont screw up.
Sometimes a team's abilities are greater than the capacity of its individuals combined abilities. It's like a function in math. You don't necessarily get y=x. Perhaps the strength of a team should also be factored in when considering race predictions rather than just the individuals within the respective team.
Derpidy derp derp!
OH MY GOD!! My sense of logic is overwhelming me aggghhhh! I don't think I can be on such a mind numbing blog and try to actually think at the same time!!!!!!!
9:11pm doesn't get it, 11:51 does.
Is Eric Young Little 5's version of Valdamort? You can't say his name?
Or spell it, for that matter.
Yeah I guessed at the spelling.
maybe someone should bring back the tricycle race?
Todd you suck.
In terms of spelling Harry Potter characters, I completely agree.
You're just being modest.
Tod just got 33rd overall in Ironman Florida in his first ironman ever including all the pros. 6th without the pros. Ran a 3:11 marathon after 2.5 mile swim, and 112 mile bike. I may be a minute or 2 off on the run time, but hat's off to Todd! Good luck in Kona!
Not to mention he has been behind the winning teams fence for 7 consecutive men's and women's victories. strategizing and actually knowing what lap everyone is on. (5 Cutters and 2 teter)
sorry Todd, not Tod. I can't spell either.
For anon. Nov. 9, 6:02 p.m.:
CvK has graduated and is working in Minneapolis, but will definitely be coming back, not to ride, but to cheer on the Teter girls. No hype: just the usual training hard and often, coached ably by Woj, three talented, experienced returning girls joined by Lisa H. (won street sprints) plus strong new rookies.
- CvK's Dad
Aw shucks....FYI my bike split was pretty good too.
So Todd is the reason for every one of those 7 wins. That is amazing! What an asset.
He's valuable, that's for sure. Obviously great riders and coaches with Todd being the sugar on top. maybe the whip cream and nuts too.
obviously the women's race is going to be awesome under the lights
Surprised hank hasn't chimed in yet? Anyone want to bet that he weighs at least 225 for this years race?
102 comments! way to go GP/patches
anon 3:10pm 10 november - hank did chime in at 4:58pm on 3 november, just so you know
Anon 3:10 225? Really? Is that including L5 rings because it'd be closer to 230 if so but good guess. See ya in April. Glad there is still some piss and vinegar in some people, always good to receive texts that people are talking about ya while in class 300 miles away
Todd and Hank, I drink your milkshake.
new topic?
Sure...how fat is hank lusk?
Is he really 220 now? That's ridiculous if so
the funniest part @hank 6:51 is you getting on here to see what was said. Nice to see a little message board can still get to ya 300 miles away.
anonymous 4:18 is the 3 time consecutive message board champion but sucks at bike racing. Hank would be lucky to be 185 right now.
well, at least it's hank and not his dad.
Hank may be fat, but Thomas Walsh is phat.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150358081360036&set=a.433819670035.208153.715605035&type=1&theater
I hope people can see this.
New topic: How do you think Dana V's team will do?
You are really bored.
Who is Dana V.?
She rode for Teter a couple years ago and helped break open the race.
wasn't she on the team last year too?
well shes riding for another team this year and 3 returning riders for Teter so that would have to mean she sat out last year.
I'm sure it looked similar to that most of the night too
Hank,
You shouldn't be so upset about gaining weight after you've graduated. Just talk to Woj. Although he at least was fit in his prime.
I heard Woj has to eat salad everyday now instead of 3 laughing planet burritos in 3 minutes. how sad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSGoUcbt_oo
Woj is pretty damn talented!
I'm the happiest man in the world
Hank,
You know they say married couples that are overweight report to be happier than those that are fit? Sir Derp Hank you too have tested this hypothesis because it seems cheeseburgers and half liters of coke do in fact not only slab on the pounds, but they also put a derp smile on your derpy face. Happy derping.
Hazel
It's a shame people won't put their name by there posts because I guarantee you people talking trash about Hank wouldn't have the balls to do it to his face. He's a great kid and cares about this race and it's a shame not more people share his passion
-bloomington cyclist
Yes no BALLS like you BLOOMINGTON CYCLIST?
I heard Wing It is tearing it up, training double of what they used to. They are so confident in their training that they are dumping the faster but more risky ghost exchanges of the past because they no longer have to make up ground on top teams during these exchanges. Is this true? if so genius!
That's not what I heard.
Anyone want to summarize all the topics on this thread?
I don't need to have any balls I'm not ripping on the kid. I'm just stating that he is a good guy and a good ambassador for cycling. Quit being jealous of his accomplishments and make your own legacy rather than trying to ruin his.
-bloomington cyclist
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How about a new thread
ES nailed it!
Happy birthday Hankers!
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