Samedi, le 17 juillet, se tenait les Championnats canadiens de cross-country à Canmore, AB, pour les athlètes commandités par Opus. Lors de la course de la catégorie Junior Homme, trois coureurs sur vélos Opus sont passés à moins d'une minute trente secondes du titre avec Steven Noble en deuxième position.
La course des Femmes moins de 23 ans a vu Cassandre Olivier-Lapierre croiser le fil d'arrivée en 5e position.
Junior Homme - 28km - 4 tours
1. Evan McNeely (ON) Team Ontario/EMD Serono/Specialized 26:42.8
2. Steven Noble (ON) Jetpower/Team Ontario 0:58
3. Antoine Caron (QC) Equipe du Quebec 1:18
4. Mitch Bailey (ON) Team Ontario 1:26
5. Jérémy Martin (QC) Equipe du Québec/Rocky Mountain Factory Team 2:51
6. Léandre Bouchard (QC) Équipe du Québec/Cyclone d'Alma 4:28
7. Felix Wilberg (AB) Team Alberta 5:27
8. Thomas Neron (QC) Équipe Québec/Subway-Genetik 5:32
9. Mo Lawrence (BC) Cycling BC 6:14
10. Daniel Varga (ON) Jetpower 6:21
11. Etienne Moreau (ON) Team Ontario/Hardwood-Trek 6:24
12. Preston Wagler (ON) 3 Rox Racing 7:38
13. Karl Hoppner (ON) EMD Serono-Specialized 10:10
14. Bretton Matthews (ON) Jetpower 10:11
15. Philippe Paradis (QC) CVM Val-David 12:48
16. Xavier Perreault (QC) CVM Val-David 14:20
17. Jordan Doner (ON) Team Spoke O'Motion 24:20:00
18. Michael Van Den Ham (MB) Brandon Bike Club 29:17:00
19. Simon Boisvert (QC) Le Yéti 31:08:00
20. Ragnar Robinson (SK) Team Saskatchewan -1 lap
DNF Joshua Thomas (ON) ThinkSL.com/CarsonElectric
Femme moins de 23 ans - 28km - 4 tours
1. Emily Batty (ON) Trek World Racing 43:31.2
2. Mikaela Kofman (AB) 3 Rox Racing 1:28
3. Rebecca Beaumont (QC) Équipe du Québec/Cyclone d'Alma 11:13
4. Ashley Barson (ON) Coach Chris.ca/Ted Velikonja 11:33
5. Cassandre Olivier-Lapierre (QC) Équipe Québec/Subway-Genetik 15:32
6. Marie-Claude Surprenant (QC) Équipe du Québec/Xprezo 18:50
7. Anna Schappert (MB) Team Manitoba 18:59
8. Krystyn Ong (AB) River Valley Cycle 20:26
9. Samantha Grover (AB) Pedalhead Racing Club 22:35
10. Sarah Moore (QC) CVM Val David -1 lap
11. Marjorie Lavoie (QC) CVM Val-David -1 lap
DNF Andréanne Pichette (QC) CVM Subway-Génétik - Équipe du Qc
Photos, canadiancyclist.com/xcnats
English report, outdoorgearcanada.blogspot.com
Showing posts with label report. Show all posts
Showing posts with label report. Show all posts
22.6.10
Opus Fhast Carbon racing in Europe
Mike Garrigan from Team Jetpower (coach)
So just a little update, cool races here so far! This past weekend was a complete 180 compared to racing in Ireland last weekend. Ireland was a very relaxed event. Almost no start-finish area to be seen, super technical course with one long climb and one long decent per lap with 6 laps.
Finished 5th with a rear flat in the first lap, I think that’s my first racing flat in some time. 1:50 minutes change judging by the lap times. Still got my butt kicked by the front runners though!! Made some new friends so I'm happy!
Yesterday raced in Hungary... OK!! Crazy hot! Warmed up with icepacks all over my body, I think this was a good plan, until the race was postponed for 45 minutes due to start order woes...
After call up I don’t think they really had the start order figured out as I was near the back, Haha good times. Raced a little too aggressively up to 9th on the first lap out of 10 and had a mini blow up due to going too hard.
The course was short. 10 minutes laps on a VERY bumpy farm field. They must have cut it with a lawn mower the day beforehand, there was ZERO singletrack!! I mean the tape narrowed in a little on some large tractor ruts!
Just a small rise in a field we zig zagged up and down 5.5 times per lap. Everything else was Pro with UCI points and prize money. Urban area for start finish, showers, etc..
For sure my new bench mark as to what to compare an un-enjoyable course too. Haha enough of the negative though haha.
Anyways, I never quite made it to the front group of 7 who where rolling along nicely. After my blow up I was back out of the top 10 (top 10 are UCI points for C2, and that’s what I’m here for!!) I actually thought about pulling out at one point!! Was finding it especially hard, so hot and so not fun at the time... Sometimes you have to look at yourself from an outside perspective. Realize you’re not going to die, you're a bike racer, you're going to keep going, and there is no other options... (I really didn’t want to) long story short, caught a few guys in the last 4 laps, finished 8th.
Got some points and a massage with some of my 65 Euros winnings (one hour massage was 12 euro!).
Off to Croatia this week for some training and enjoying the sea. Then Slovenia race next weekend. I'll tell you guys about the back issues later. Make sure to keep up with your stretching, especially when your traveling!!!!!!!
Talk to you soon! I'll be online lots this week!
MikeG
So just a little update, cool races here so far! This past weekend was a complete 180 compared to racing in Ireland last weekend. Ireland was a very relaxed event. Almost no start-finish area to be seen, super technical course with one long climb and one long decent per lap with 6 laps.
Finished 5th with a rear flat in the first lap, I think that’s my first racing flat in some time. 1:50 minutes change judging by the lap times. Still got my butt kicked by the front runners though!! Made some new friends so I'm happy!
Yesterday raced in Hungary... OK!! Crazy hot! Warmed up with icepacks all over my body, I think this was a good plan, until the race was postponed for 45 minutes due to start order woes...
After call up I don’t think they really had the start order figured out as I was near the back, Haha good times. Raced a little too aggressively up to 9th on the first lap out of 10 and had a mini blow up due to going too hard.
The course was short. 10 minutes laps on a VERY bumpy farm field. They must have cut it with a lawn mower the day beforehand, there was ZERO singletrack!! I mean the tape narrowed in a little on some large tractor ruts!
Just a small rise in a field we zig zagged up and down 5.5 times per lap. Everything else was Pro with UCI points and prize money. Urban area for start finish, showers, etc..
For sure my new bench mark as to what to compare an un-enjoyable course too. Haha enough of the negative though haha.
Anyways, I never quite made it to the front group of 7 who where rolling along nicely. After my blow up I was back out of the top 10 (top 10 are UCI points for C2, and that’s what I’m here for!!) I actually thought about pulling out at one point!! Was finding it especially hard, so hot and so not fun at the time... Sometimes you have to look at yourself from an outside perspective. Realize you’re not going to die, you're a bike racer, you're going to keep going, and there is no other options... (I really didn’t want to) long story short, caught a few guys in the last 4 laps, finished 8th.
Got some points and a massage with some of my 65 Euros winnings (one hour massage was 12 euro!).
Off to Croatia this week for some training and enjoying the sea. Then Slovenia race next weekend. I'll tell you guys about the back issues later. Make sure to keep up with your stretching, especially when your traveling!!!!!!!
Talk to you soon! I'll be online lots this week!
MikeG
15.4.07
The first race report
Hi guys,
This is the first race report. I am still in California but thought you would want to know how the first race went so I did not procrastinate!
It was my first race of the season so I was so nervous. The first race of the year is the worst because you never know if the training was good and how you are going to compare to everyone else. The weekend started not so well. I arrived at registration and was informed I was registered for the Super D (a downhill cross country mix of a race). Um yeah, I am not a downhiller and I have only been on my mountain bike for a week! I ended up doing it and placed 9th. The worst part was that we had to run with our bikes for the first 200m. Crazy race!
The next day was the time trial. It was really short, less than 5 minutes. I was thinking that with the intensity I had done in Montreal I was going to rip it up. No. I was 15th. After that I started to stress. My sister and JD put things in perspective and I went out on Saturday and had a great race in the short track. My first podium in the short track ever. The weather was actually pretty crappy too-tonnes of rain and wind(no snow!) so I think that was good for me.
Sunday was the cross country. This was the important one. My races are 2hrs for the ideal finishing time. This race is almost 3hrs. Quite long. My longest ride this year has been 3hrs so with my warm up, cool down and race today it is the longest time I have spent on the bike this year. I spent the entire race battling with Katerina Nash. At the top of the last climb she attacked and I tried so hard to stay with her in the technical. My legs were burning and I thought I was going to collapse and she had a 4 second lead going into the final 500m. I shifted to my hardest gear, put my head down and gave it EVERYTHING. I passed her for 2nd place just before the line.
I have been working on being more of a tiger when I am racing. Seems like it is working. GRRRRRR!
The new Opus bike is so nice. I am loving being on a hardtail again! Shimano and Michelin were here too and they are so happy to have me with them again. It is really motivating having all this support. It is working out well with Sylvain. I am trying not to take my stress out on him and he is trying to be not so sensitive to it. The bike worked perfectly so that made life so easy for me. JC from Opus was here and he helped with feeding. Because this course is 2 insanely long laps it saved me today having him there in the second feed zone.
I can really feel in my body that I have not put any hours on the mountain bike. At first it was I had no sense of the gears because I have been on the road bike all winter. Today I was great for almost 2hrs and then my arms and back were so toasted that I was not riding all that smoothly. I feel a lot better than I did a week ago though so I think the muscles are there, they just need to adapt to the bike.
I am feeling quite good about the race. Georgia Gould who won is riding really well right now and has won everything this year. The Americans have been racing since early March starting with Pan Am championships so it is encouraging to know that for my first race I can still be competitive with girls who have been racing for a month. Thank you all for that!
Heading to Belgium for the first world cup on Wednesday.
Kiara
This is the first race report. I am still in California but thought you would want to know how the first race went so I did not procrastinate!
It was my first race of the season so I was so nervous. The first race of the year is the worst because you never know if the training was good and how you are going to compare to everyone else. The weekend started not so well. I arrived at registration and was informed I was registered for the Super D (a downhill cross country mix of a race). Um yeah, I am not a downhiller and I have only been on my mountain bike for a week! I ended up doing it and placed 9th. The worst part was that we had to run with our bikes for the first 200m. Crazy race!
The next day was the time trial. It was really short, less than 5 minutes. I was thinking that with the intensity I had done in Montreal I was going to rip it up. No. I was 15th. After that I started to stress. My sister and JD put things in perspective and I went out on Saturday and had a great race in the short track. My first podium in the short track ever. The weather was actually pretty crappy too-tonnes of rain and wind(no snow!) so I think that was good for me.
Sunday was the cross country. This was the important one. My races are 2hrs for the ideal finishing time. This race is almost 3hrs. Quite long. My longest ride this year has been 3hrs so with my warm up, cool down and race today it is the longest time I have spent on the bike this year. I spent the entire race battling with Katerina Nash. At the top of the last climb she attacked and I tried so hard to stay with her in the technical. My legs were burning and I thought I was going to collapse and she had a 4 second lead going into the final 500m. I shifted to my hardest gear, put my head down and gave it EVERYTHING. I passed her for 2nd place just before the line.
I have been working on being more of a tiger when I am racing. Seems like it is working. GRRRRRR!
The new Opus bike is so nice. I am loving being on a hardtail again! Shimano and Michelin were here too and they are so happy to have me with them again. It is really motivating having all this support. It is working out well with Sylvain. I am trying not to take my stress out on him and he is trying to be not so sensitive to it. The bike worked perfectly so that made life so easy for me. JC from Opus was here and he helped with feeding. Because this course is 2 insanely long laps it saved me today having him there in the second feed zone.
I can really feel in my body that I have not put any hours on the mountain bike. At first it was I had no sense of the gears because I have been on the road bike all winter. Today I was great for almost 2hrs and then my arms and back were so toasted that I was not riding all that smoothly. I feel a lot better than I did a week ago though so I think the muscles are there, they just need to adapt to the bike.
I am feeling quite good about the race. Georgia Gould who won is riding really well right now and has won everything this year. The Americans have been racing since early March starting with Pan Am championships so it is encouraging to know that for my first race I can still be competitive with girls who have been racing for a month. Thank you all for that!
Heading to Belgium for the first world cup on Wednesday.
Kiara
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)