Sea Otter 2009 - Final Results

I’ve sorted through the myriad results for our team members – many many racers and results to track!

Total # of racers: 12 (7 Juniors, 5 Masters)

Total # of race entries: 20 (11 Juniors, 9 Masters)

Total # of Podiums: 8

Most Victorious: Bjorn Fox (3 Podiums)

Hard Man Award: Blair Peterson (Three races in 2 days)

Best Finish: Spence Peterson (1st Place Junior 13-14)

Best Time XC: Tom Fox – Singlespeed (1:29:04 – one lap – beat Jeff Taylor by 26 seconds!)

Best non-AC Rider: Sven Beer (Second Place, Junior 15-18 Cat 3)

Pictures Updated with some captions:
http://picasaweb.google.com/glocalize/200904SeaOtter?feat=directlink

Here are the results I pulled down from the Sea Otter website at http://www.seaotterclassic.com/raceresults/index.cfm

Cross Country Races - Juniors
Spence Peterson Junior 13-14 Boys 1 out of 31 – Podium!
Skyler Taylor Junior 13-14 Boys 5 out of 31 – Podium!
Jack Keane Junior 13-14 Boys 6 out of 31

Bjorn Fox Junior 15-16 Cat 1 (2 laps!) 2 out of 6 – Podium!
Sven Beer Junior 15-16 Cat 3 2 out of 44 – Podium!
Chris Kemnitzer Junior 15-16 Cat 3 23 out of 44
Spence Peterson Men’s 15-18 Cat 2 16 out of 42
Bob Siegel Men’s 15-18 Cat 2 28 out of 42

Cross Country Races - Masters
Jeff Taylor Men’s 45-49 Cat 2 3 out of 90 – Podium!
Tom Fox Men’s Singlespeed Cat 2 5 out of 66 – Podium!
Blair Peterson Men’s 45-49 Cat 2 38 out of 90
Rich Siegel Men’s 50-54 Cat 2 65 out of 66
Ken Howard Men’s 50-54 Cat 3 17 out of 65

Road Races - Masters
Blair Peterson Masters 45+ Cat 4 29 out of 39
Rich Siegel Masters 45+ Cat 5 39 out of 43

Circuit Races
Bjorn Fox Junior 15-16 2 out of 19 – Podium!
Alex Howard Junior 15-16 10 out of 19
Bob Siegel Junior 15-16 12 out of 19
Blair Peterson Men’s 45+ Cat 4 22 out of 30

Short Track Race
Bjorn Fox Men’s 15-18 Cat 1 2 out of ?? – Podium!

Great racing for everyone today – you missed some really HOT weather this morning (80+ degrees at 9:30 AM), so weather was perfect for most of the other races.

Sea Otter - Day 1 - MTB, Road Racing and Circuit Racing

Very busy day today, with Juniors doing XC (13-14), Circuit Race (15-16), and Masters doing Road Race, and also XC. Awesome weather and conditions, and a first place, second places and some other good results. Will provide full summary later in the weekend.

Many results to come, but some pictures for now:
http://picasaweb.google.com/glocalize/200904SeaOtter?feat=directlink

Everyone is VERY tired, and we have races starting again at 7:40 AM (Junior 15-16 XC Cat 2) and 8:10-15 (Masters Cat 2).

Copperopolis Road Race

We had a big turnout last weekend at the Copperopolis Road Race - six Juniors, six Masters and I think three or four Elites - Ian has reported on their results on the ACR blog already.

On the Junior side, we had two DNF's - Bob had a mechanical (shifter failure) just before the start, and Alex completed one of the two laps for the 15/16's then dropped.

In the Junior 15-16 race, Bjorn raced hard with a fifth-place finish, looking strong the whole way. Isaiah started out strong, and finished in 15th place against a fast, tough pack.

In the 13-14 race, Spence and Skyler placed well - second for Spence, and fifth for Skyler.

For the Masters, five of the six of us stayed together. Bill Buckingham rode very strongly, finishing 17th out of the Masters 45+ A Group, with Jeff Taylor just behind at 20th. Then Tom Fox at 22nd, with Blair Peterson and Peter Sobrero coming across together at 32 and 33 respectively. I was dropped off the back on the first climb (very tough) and raced a 44 mile time trial, but finished.

Thanks to Bob, we captured a good number of pictures - check them out at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/glocalize/200904CopperopolisRoadRace?feat=directlink

Results in detail are here: http://www.velopromo.com/copr-rl09.htm

Napa Valley Dirt Classic

Good turnout yesterday from the AC crew - we had five Junior riders (Spence, Alex, Skyler, Bob and Jack), and three AC Masters riders (Blair, Bill Buckingham, and me) - 8 riders out there representing AC - the largest group of riders I saw from ANY team ;-)

Weather conditions were PERFECT - it was low 60's at the start (around 10:30 AM) and low 70's at the finish. It was a 20 mile race, with a very interesting mix of riding styles. The first 4-5 miles were pretty flat/rolling wide single and double track, followed by a lot of sweeping XC stuff. Mixed in for "interest" were some big 50 foot drops followed with 60 foot climbs - gearing and momentum were essential on these.

There were also a lot of very tricky turns around blind corners, into steep short ascents - I saw a lot of people with snapped chains, and heard some shifting behind me that sounded like forks in a garbage disposal ;-) The course was moderately technical, with some pretty steep downhill and rocky stuff, some of which I elected to get off and walk, rather than risk a bad crash. There were a few crashes, which I heard behind me, and the boys saw some guys that were pretty beat up - some of the big, rocky descents could definitely take it out of you if you missed the right line.

The worst part of this race was at about mile 13 or 14 - the huge canyon descent (rocky and sandy) down 800 feet, then the ugly climb out. It was long, steep and had marginal traction on a lot of it. I heard that some of the guys rode it all the way, but I treated it as a cyclocross-style walk-up. Long and boring, just a big annoyance in an XC race. In fact, there was a run-up at the beginning of the race that really reminded me of the McLaren Park 'cross race! I think that some of the 'cross racing experience was put to good use in the race yesterday....

Here is the GPS recording of the race - you can see the elevation profile and what it means compared to the rest of the rolling hills:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/7941399

The team had good success overall. The boys did well - everyone finished except Jack who had a crash at about mile 14, and got towed out. Fortunately he wasn't badly hurt, and his bike seemed OK, so he'll be ready to go for Sea Otter, and got some good practice on this race. The other Juniors finished as follows:

Spence Peterson - Second Place
Alex Howard - Third Place
Skyler Taylor - Fourth Place
Bob Siegel - Sixth Place

Results are up at http://web2.puc.edu/Pioneers/NVDC/09%20results.htm

Spence Peterson 01:48:33 00:00:13 (Second out of 8 racers)
Alex Howard 01:53:25 00:05:05 (3 out of 8)
Skyler Taylor 02:02:58 00:14:38 (4 out of 8)
Bob Siegel 02:12:54 00:24:34 289 (6 out of 8)

William Buckingham 01:47:13 00:03:14 (45-54 Cat 2 Male) (Third out of 52 racers)
Blair Peterson 01:55:45 00:11:46 (14 out of 52)

Richard Siegel 02:31:46 00:31:56 (14 out of 28, 45-54 Cat 3 Male)

The Juniors are (almost) beating the Masters now ;-)