Bryan Park Update

The B race has a new leader, Joel Miller has taken the prestigious Bozo jersey from Team Natures Path teammate Oliver Dujua (sort of Contador v Armstrongish) so lets see how team dynamics work over the next few weeks. Good job Joel with 3 straight wins though. Here are the standings
Joel Miller 67
Oliver Dujua 64
CJ Congrove 50
Robert Anderson 30
Justin Brown 29
Ethan Lindbloom 21
Bruce Lowekamp 20
Michael Yengling 17
Christian Sheridan 16
Jonathan Pham 15
Dominik Meier 15
Andrew Roberts 15
Braden Govani 13
Hugh Brown 10
Joseph Obrien-Applegate 9
Brandon Smith 9
Tim Lamb 9
Ryan Hartman 9
John Beck 8
Ed Baumgartner 6
Kieran Mcloughlin 6

The A race shows that Dan King (Van Dessel) can really look at having the Tuxedo jersey custom fitted as he has truly been a model of consistency with 3 wins and no showing less than third. Fantastic job, that's the way to get the most from your summer pass. You can tell your family that it safe to go on vacation at this point
Dan King 100
Jeff Buckles 29
Matt Carlton 26
Mason Haymes 25
Chip Goble 23
Craig Dodson 20
Andrew Ali 19
Shawn Tunstall 19
Jon Gaudio 16
Jeff Brandon 15
Andrew Troy 15
Stu Louder 14
Chris McMillian 13
Sean Carithers 10
Dominik Meier 9
Marc Warner 9
Keck Baker 8
Tim Mullins 8
Curtis Smith 8
Adam Switter 8
Brenden Cornett 7
Owen Hassig 7
Ed McNelis 7
Jon Phan 6

Finally, we introduced a women's point race two weeks ago and hit the bare minimum with three entrants. Emily Helmboldt (RCWR) took the top women's spot. The idea went over so well that ZERO women entered this week. Women's bike race fever, catch it! On the flip side we had twelve 10-14 year olds in the junior race and 6 of them were girls (way fast too) so there is hope for the women's sport. I really do hope to see more women out there in the future.

Until next time
Matt Marchal
Altius Cycling Team

Bryan Park Update

There will be a little hangover this week at Bryan Park as we slip back to our regular races, but thanks to Stratton for putting on another great Workingman's.
A few notes for this week.

1) No kids race, that will resume next week
2) There are folks that want to race the B then the A. This is a training series so I want people to get the experience, but field size and experience of the rider is a must to make this move so from now on if you are in the top 3 in the B series of finish in the top three that night you may ride the A. If not, race harder next week.
3) Honoring a request, there will be a Women's only points jersey (and it's ugly). Here is the catch though. Points are only awarded if there are at least 3 women in the B race. So come on ladies and line up in the B, go toe to toe with guys and gals and we will score out the women separately. The B fields are much larger than any VA womens only race so it will make your racing and bike handling skills that much better, plus you can show up all your friends with your lovely new points jersey.

See you Tuesday

TT Specialist

How did Jed get so fast? Training on a rocket apparently

PSA from Altius Cycling

It may be time to re-stan's your mountain bike tires. Just sayin'... keep it in mind. Last 24 hours 3 Altius riders noticed dry-tubeless tires. Must have something to do with the summer solstice.

June 16th Bryan Park

Another fun race, thanks to those who came out.
In the B race Joel Miller and Dominik Meier took off early and rode away from the field. The gap between first and second for the Bozo Jersey is pretty tight and word has it that CJ may miss the next couple of races which could change everything. Dominik, word on the street says that you need to stay in the A race.

B points
CJ Congrove 50
Oliver Dujua 44
Joel Miller 27
Justin Brown 22
Bruce Lowekamp 20
Michael Yengling 17
Jonathan Pham 15
Ethan Lindbloom 15
Dominik Meier 15
Hugh Brown 10
Joseph Obrien-Applegate 9
Brandon Smith 9
Christian Sheridan 8
Andrew Roberts 8
Ed Baumgartner 6
Braden Govani 6
Kieran Mcloughlin 6

In the A race numerous breaks tried to get away only to get pulled back. I raced my first crit in 8 months thanks to Ann Hardy officiating - thanks Ann, and glad I didn't crash anyone. In the end Craig Dodson shot the gap and narrowly beat tuxedo wearing Dan King for the win. Unlike the B race, Dan is coming out hard early. He may have this one sewn up by August.

A points
Dan King 60
Jeff Buckles 29
Mason Haymes 25
Matt Carlton 20
Craig Dodson 20
Andrew Ali 19
Jeff Brandon 15
Stu Louder 14
Sean Carithers 10
Dominik Meier 9
Shawn Tunstall 9
Keck Baker 8
Tim Mullins 8
Curtis Smith 8
Brenden Cornett 7
Owen Hassig 7
Ed McNelis 7
Jon Gaudio 6
Chris McMillian 6

PLT#1 photos

I took a few pictures including some of our own Jed Hurt yesterday heading out on his ride.

Gallery link

Embrace technology

Sometimes I am a little slow to figure out the right way to get a message out. I realized that a blog site is just as useful for getting info about the team out as a website and a heck of a lot easier. For the bits of the Altius Cycing Team that are important to the world, we now have the forum.