Sorry for the delay I've been nursing my wounds(and wallet) for the last week after the disaster of a race I did (or tryed to do) last weekend. It was to be a great weekend of racing under the sun of New Jerseys Sussex county. Well there wasnt much fun in the racing as Thursday after I pre reged of course the bronchitis that I thought I had fought off made a heralding return and screwed me over hard. I went to the doctor this past week and he put me on antibiotics and after a complete 8 days off the bike and using the medication I have been given I'm feeling a little better and hopefully will have a sickness free run-up to nationals and the month of July.
Next week is empire qualifiers so its kinda a big deciding factor of what I will be doing in the lader half of July due to the fact that If I don't get to 10 I wont be allowed to go to the Empire state games but I'm not worried just being sick free should catapult me into that.
Lets start the race report off on a positive note , I'm never doing a junior race again (with exception of nationals.). I raced, or attempted to race the big canam u-19 challenge down in New Jersey this weekend. It was a 2 day 3 stage deal with a TT a crit on sat and a 1.5 mile circuit race on sunday. My race began to go south about Thursday as I realized I was relapsing a bit on the sickness that hit me a couple of weeks ago...but to late I was signed up and going any ways.
The 8 k up hill tt went terrible ... my fault though...It was way to cold and just couldn't breath. Finished about a minute down.
The crit is where the real birds started to hit the fan when I was feeling quite all right narrowly missing a pream to the rider who actually won the race... It was easily the fastest crit I've ever done ...no lie we avged 26 and change ... But all hell broke loose when we were turning onto the front strait to start the bell lap and the rider infront of me, who apparently needs to attend a Handlebars bike repair school because his head set was loose and he turned the bars the wheel keep going strait so he crashed about 5 of us. Came out of it good though only a couple very small scrapes on my knees.
But the true wallet killer of the weekend was the circuit race when on the 3rd lap I was 3rd in line passing 2 riders on the right when the rider flat out rode into me and managed to get his handlebars into my rear wheel totally ruining my 5 race old carbon rear wheel taking about every spoke out of it and putting a huge dig in the rim to make it a total loss, before he smashed into the ground... I rode about 50 more meters and got off in the grass. The weekend basically was a complete nightmare but thats bike racing.
-Ryan
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Saturday, May 12, 2007
I'm glad BRISTOLs on your mind...
Bristol Bristol bristol was on my mind after awaking way to early (6;00) to a plate of Spigetti and numerous PB&j sandwiches on the 2 hour speed limit cracking drive to the Bristol mountail ski resort for a 75 mile trek through HELL. Hell as I call it is a 17 mile loop that we had to complete 4 times...easyer typed than actuly done as the loop contains a 1 mile climb to start the lap then an ascent over the renound 2.5 mile Egypt road climb to finish your lap in hell off. Nah in my opinion a flat crit is more hell than Egypt rd (hurts alot less though) as I'd rather race up a hill then race on a flat road.
The race started with an easy roll out and the pace remained group ride easy until the 1st ascent of Egypt. The pace was lifted and may cracked... This would be the case for the whole day but on the 1st 2 laps many riders were able to latch back on... But on the 3rd lap all hell broke loose as I easily made the stupidest move of my cycling career as I attacked at the bace of Egypt the adventual winner and tough guy of the day Cheyne Hoag bridged to me as we climbed past the half way point I gazed back opon the pack that was only 30 yards to the rear. Being the engegy conserver that I try to be I went back to the pack figuring we would be caught anyway. WRONG! Cheyne hit the top and was flat out gone I played my cards a little bad there as I unnoingly was surrounded by guys who were more woried about making up the climbs than actuly winning the race as the chase went nowhere. Well there went a chance at the win... So my trusty teammate Jeff and I went to work on demorilizing the remaining riders in the chase groupo. Several attacks and counters later and were were 5 riders strong going down the final decent of the back side of Bristol Mountain to the finish line... coming up to the line down the hill at speeds of 48+ mph i timed it a bit wrong and ended up getting 5th on the day with Jeff slotting in right behind me in 6th.
It was overall a good day of racing and Congrats to Cheyne on a great ride.
Peace out computer geeks
Ry Nye
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Jiminy Peak @ Marilla Weekend
I was a bad then good weekend that has past. Jiminy peak was on tray for the saturday as I traveled with Todd and Jeff to the far east of Massachusetts for a great day of racing.
The course was much better than last weeks "sprinter races" of Palmer/Sturbridge. Jiminy featured a great cross wind correlated with rollers and followed by 7 miles of 2% grade with a 1.5 mile 160 meter climb to the line. A great course for myself .
I raced the stacked Junior field at 35 riders. The race started with an early move on the 1st lap that got about 30 seconds... on the 2% section all hell broke loose as a massive pile up was caused as one rider after another hit the deck witch held me up and ultimately cost me the race as many riders used that as an opportunity to launch an attack and as I tried to chase back on I my as well have been with a bunch of senior citizens as no one was willing to take any kind of pull and when they did it was at about 19 mph which will get you no where fast. So with about 10 miles to go I nailed it and no one followed as I time trialed home for an 8th on the day which is not where I had wanted to finish at all.
MARILLA REPORT
I'm writing this report mainly for MR. Mesi who predicted this opon my arrival to the parking lot of the marilla Road race on the past Sunday.
It was a great day of racing with the biggest BBC turnout ever recorded with 70+ riders in attendance. The Marilla East course was the challenge of the day as a steady cross wind was in place to greatly decimate the field. I didnt make it easy on myself as I like aways in club races go from the zero kilometer mark. One other rider followed as I drove the break for 2.5 of the 5 laps gaining a max of over 1.5 mints. when I looked back to see fellow teammate Wayne Luther and another rider bridging I sat up to wait for Wayne when he just did the same and went back to the pack...so that move was shot as the pack was charging along and was within 30 seconds now i decided to go back and "rest", which entailed to chasing down the counter attacks. At the start of lap 3 a small 4 rider group went clear which I went after and made contact without any difficulty then then like clockwork sat up and I went right past them and off the fron of that group. Which caused a couple riders to latch on to me as more rides tried to bridge to the group. We finally settled with an 8 rider group. So we drove on and away from the dwindling main field. With 2 laps to go I nailed it and brought Jim Crowle (AG Edwards) with me as we worked off the front for the better part of the lap. before a now shrunk 4 rider chase group caught us.
On the final lap an attack of mine was countered by Steve Toorongian (reddoor) as I could now see everyone was tired as no one would chase as they all looked to me to close the gap.
I tempo ed along keeping the gap at a reasonable 10 seconds trying not to expend to much energy as I needed it for the final climb. On the final climb I ripped it and no one followed and I passed the breakaway rider and soloed to the win. I came in at over 3 and a half minuts to the good of the main field.
The course was much better than last weeks "sprinter races" of Palmer/Sturbridge. Jiminy featured a great cross wind correlated with rollers and followed by 7 miles of 2% grade with a 1.5 mile 160 meter climb to the line. A great course for myself .
I raced the stacked Junior field at 35 riders. The race started with an early move on the 1st lap that got about 30 seconds... on the 2% section all hell broke loose as a massive pile up was caused as one rider after another hit the deck witch held me up and ultimately cost me the race as many riders used that as an opportunity to launch an attack and as I tried to chase back on I my as well have been with a bunch of senior citizens as no one was willing to take any kind of pull and when they did it was at about 19 mph which will get you no where fast. So with about 10 miles to go I nailed it and no one followed as I time trialed home for an 8th on the day which is not where I had wanted to finish at all.
MARILLA REPORT
I'm writing this report mainly for MR. Mesi who predicted this opon my arrival to the parking lot of the marilla Road race on the past Sunday.
It was a great day of racing with the biggest BBC turnout ever recorded with 70+ riders in attendance. The Marilla East course was the challenge of the day as a steady cross wind was in place to greatly decimate the field. I didnt make it easy on myself as I like aways in club races go from the zero kilometer mark. One other rider followed as I drove the break for 2.5 of the 5 laps gaining a max of over 1.5 mints. when I looked back to see fellow teammate Wayne Luther and another rider bridging I sat up to wait for Wayne when he just did the same and went back to the pack...so that move was shot as the pack was charging along and was within 30 seconds now i decided to go back and "rest", which entailed to chasing down the counter attacks. At the start of lap 3 a small 4 rider group went clear which I went after and made contact without any difficulty then then like clockwork sat up and I went right past them and off the fron of that group. Which caused a couple riders to latch on to me as more rides tried to bridge to the group. We finally settled with an 8 rider group. So we drove on and away from the dwindling main field. With 2 laps to go I nailed it and brought Jim Crowle (AG Edwards) with me as we worked off the front for the better part of the lap. before a now shrunk 4 rider chase group caught us.
On the final lap an attack of mine was countered by Steve Toorongian (reddoor) as I could now see everyone was tired as no one would chase as they all looked to me to close the gap.
I tempo ed along keeping the gap at a reasonable 10 seconds trying not to expend to much energy as I needed it for the final climb. On the final climb I ripped it and no one followed and I passed the breakaway rider and soloed to the win. I came in at over 3 and a half minuts to the good of the main field.
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