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2011 South Carolina State Criterium Championships - Hampton Park, SC (Charleston)

Submitted by bikeracer on Sun, 04/24/2011 - 21:36

 

Sunday morning started much like Saturday, early.  Neal and I left the house right at 5:30AM to get to the crit course held in Hampton Park next to the Citadel in Charleston, SC.  We stopped, got coffee and headed down I17.  There was a full moon and it seemed like we were going to drive right up to.  One of the coolest moon sets I’ve seen.

We managed to get the Start/Finish Truss and stage set up in record time.  The SC Criterium Championship is held on a flat course with two real turns.  It’s a super fast 1 mile course.  

Today I was racing the 35+ Masters bike race because it was much earlier than the Cat 3/4 criterium.  Tracy and I wanted to do some site seeing so this made sense.  I was kind of nervous about this race as I also struggled in this race last year. 

I managed to get a good start and hung around the top 10-15 for most of the race.  Gary Moore (Giordana-Clif-Bar-Br

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2011 Ion Smack Down - Charleston, South Carolina

Submitted by bikeracer on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 23:06

 

2011 I’ON Village Criterium Smack Down (South Carolina)

Tracy and I headed to Charleston, SC for a weekend of criterium racing.  We left on Friday, April 15th after going for a 25 mile ride in Mooresville.  We arrived in Charleston around 6:30 and Leah and Neal arrived shortly thereafter.   We all went to dinner and celebrated Tracy and Neal’s birthdays. 

I woke up early (5AM) Saturday morning to help Neal set up the crit course.

Race No. 5 - Charlotte Winter Short Track Series (Mountain Bike)

Submitted by bikeracer on Fri, 04/01/2011 - 15:43

Yesterday was the last race of the Charlotte Winter Short Track Series.  5 straight weekends of mountain bike racing with basically one trainer ride a week (on Tuesdays).  Once again, I was hoping for a good day on the bike after a long day of officiating the day before. On Saturady, I officiated 3 Division II lacrosse games and woke up on Sunday pretty sore because I don’t run much anymore – well never run anymore. 
 
I arrived at the race about an hour before the start and adjusted my handlebars from the previous weeks crash.  Yeah, I kind of forgot about the mountain bike for a week.  Saw my friend David, talked to him for awhile and then went to registration.  After registration I went to see how my friends from the Trek Bike store did.  Spoke to them for awhile and George tried to hook up his helmet cam for my race.  Well, needless to say, he couldn’t get it to work and I warmed up for about 10 minutes. 

Race No. 4 - Charlotte Winter Short Track Series (Mountain Bike Race)

Submitted by bikeracer on Fri, 04/01/2011 - 15:41

I was hoping for a good day on the bike after last weeks successful race.  The racers were sure that the course was going to be a wreck as it rained pretty much all of Friday and most of Saturday morning.


I was able to get to the course a little earlier than normal and actually get about 25 minute warm up with some sprints to get the legs going.  They were a little sore because I reffed two lacrosse games in Chapel Hill on Saturday.  But I did feel good in the warm up.