Since there is an ungodly amount of racing in July, I figured I'd make a thread for it all. This includes jr and team state championships, state games of oregon, normal state champ, and the mother of them all, AVC. All alongside your normal Wed, Thrus and Fri goodies.

First off: Friday. NOT starting at its normal time. It'll start at about 2.30, and run till about 7. Racing for EVERYONE. If you have even remotly thought about comming out and racing, do it on the 4th. All the cash is going to help Zaks fucked up shoulder. If you havnt come to a Wed class, show up. Hell, if you cant on Wed but think you are almost ready to race, I'll go out on Thrus and help ya.

I'll post more detailed shit as it gets closer.

Haha, have fun at that wedding, Ben.
I'm excited for all the races going on in July.

THOR4LIFE:

For the 5/4s, the state games and the normal state championships are good. Hell, if y'all wanted to, get togeather 3 people and do a team sprint on the 5th.

I'm hoping the other girls on my team will get into this so that I can do the team sprint on the 5th.

The gals actually only sprint with 2 total people, guys with 3.

Here's the rundown: You start in the middle of the front strech (at the prusuit line, aka the red line going half way up the track). You are all side by side. Once you get the sound to go, you all just bust ass to get up to speed. Whoever is the lowest on the track (called 1st wheel) is only on the track for 1 lap. Middle guy (2ed wheel) slots in behind the wheel, and 3ed wheel slots in behind 2ed. 1st pulls for 1 lap, and then pulls way up track (pretty much to the rail). Now, 2ed wheel is in the wind, and he pulls his lap, then pulls up. Finally, the 3ed wheel does his lap and when he crosses the line, that is your time.

It's sort of hard to explain where to pull up. You have a zone in which you have to do it. But the jist is that you have to be up track before the start finish line.

As for choosing who should be 1st,2ed, and 3ed....its a little tricky. 1st should be your best starter. The guy that can get to speed from a dead stop the fastest. 2ed should be your fastest guy. 3ed is whoever has the most endurance.

I'd go get some vid too, but i have to run off to pratice

Oh okay. The opposite side of the track thing makes sense, I was confused how thatd work if both teams were battling it out right next to each other. How does this differ from a team pursuit? Just shorter with no aero bars? I assume its a standing start and not a rail start, right?

I think Id make a decent lead out. Anyone else want on Team Grimm?

krystenr:

Haha, Team Grimm. Cuuuutte.
I don't know if anyone on my team is gonna wanna do this...Keven? Ladyyyy, you in?!

you know i would if nothing else than to support my hommie Zak. But i think im going out of town Friday with my main squeeze...i'll find out for sure sometime soon.

So I think im in for the state games. Is the much point to coming to the obra track champs is I am still a 5? Im actually kind of interested in trying out a pursuit too, I think with my body type and way I like to ride I may be decent at it. Just need to figure out some aero bars and practice with them first though.

Though if I do well at the next FTF I will ask to be upgraded probably. We'll see they. Im not counting on it specifically.

Yea, you can still do the champs as a 5. Why not? I did it last year :D

God this is gonna be a lllooonnnggg weekend. Fri, Sat, and Sun racing.......

Ugg

Thankee. Pretty bummed about the day overall, but thats just because I'm incredibly hard on myself. I just wish McLaughry would kick my ass by a half lap or something lol. This winning or loosing by 10mm is killing me, espically when there was a BIKE FRAME on the line.

Oh yeah. I forgot there were prizes involved. The ones for the beginners were just like some lights and stuff, but hey thats cool.

pj, look at that medal around your neck and remind yourself that this shit
is fun as hell

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow

i have decided. i am not going. sorry krysten! i look forward to going next friday though. i don't know if the medal makes me feel that special; what makes me feel special was racing with krysten & ariel and kicking ass for us newbies. what also makes me feel special is that i learned 3 new tricks in the last day. i am tarck at heart, track every now and then. track is hella fun tho'. my knees are not hella happy right now. so next friday... tell me about it. i never been. omnium? is that how you spell it?

heh, sorry kristen pj and ariel but i had to put this up here:

where's the one of me unzipping myself?

The wheel is destoryed. As is the Teschner. The disk has about 5 huge cracks in it, along with the panels of carbon have started to seperate. The Teschner has a solid crack in the top tube, and is not good enough to ride. Overall, today cost me $4,700 dollars if I had to pay for all of it over again. Kirk (my coach, and river city god) is working Teschner for me, and with some luck, I'll be getting a new frame for free, or close to it. I'm sort of screwed on the Zipp, but we both are going to call them (river city and myself) and see what they can do for me. Besides that though, the bike is ok.

Body wise I'm fine. Very, very stiff hip which is making it a bitch and a half to walk and some expected rash, but thats it. I plan on being on a bike by tommrow morning. Cant really afford to "rest" as AVC is about 2 weeks away.

Dont know what it looked like from an outside picture, but it was pretty hellish. I was riding abut 2-3 feet from the guy in front of me's back wheel. I knew the bell had to be ringing either that lap or the next, so I glanced over my right shoulder to see who/how many folks were comming over. But in the time it took me to take a quick glance, the guy in front of me had checked up, gone down track a bit, and then came back up, taking out my wheel. I went down pretty hard. I tried to tuck my bike into my body because I knew there was the entire back behind me. Yea, that worked like a fucking charm. Jay Brown who was right on me ran the disk over, and Curtis ran the frame over.

I'll be at the champs next weekend, although I wont be contesting the Keirin. By that time I still wont be on my own bike, and the Keirin is sketch enough without me risking someone elses bike.

Oh, and on another note. Last year at the AVC, I crashed doing my 200 (pulled wheel). The date was 7/7/07. Today is 7/7/08. For the record, I will never race on 7/7 again

Oh man the Tesch too. I can feel my eyes start welling up. So sad. I hope theyll own up to the replacement.

Oh and on another note, I saw Jeremy's team out there at the track representing, where were you?

Lol yea I figured out the 7/7 think a bit later.

Teschner already has a new frame and fork in the mail to me. Fucking stoaked. With any luck, I'll have it built up and ready to roll by AVC. Right now I'm set up on Kirk's 53 Tescher and trispoke rear wheel. Doesnt fit me worth a crap, but it will hopefully get the job done for this weekend in the sprints. I'll probably run the Keirin on a rental bike and just throw my wheels/bar on.

Some Qs for the track champs.

What gear do you recommend for a kilo and 200m?
For the pursuits do you need aero bars? Or will most people in the 4s just be running drops?

75 lap points race, really? And then the senior men do 150? Yeesh. That sounds too long for my tastes. I did a 35 at the Heart Breaker and it was def a long event. I guess that just means Ive got sh*t for a VO2 max or something.

Thanks for the advice.
So far the largest gear I own is a 49x15 (85.5") which I have been using for track. I am really thinking I should buy a 14t (92").

Honestly I was trying to keep my gearing a little low for awhile to try and teach myself to use a higher cadence and be efficient, but I think ill be faster mashing something larger.

I think you have to be at least a Cat3. Though I cant find where it states that on the site.

There are Cat4/5 events in the track champs this weekend though.

i don't even know if i'm gonna race this weekend... fuck a kilo!

I train for kilos but never feel like I want to when I do them. Either I go all out from the beginning and start to fade out 50 to 75 percent of the way, or I build up to an all out and don't feel like I gave it my all, or fade out anyway. Reason I train for them is because I think being good at them lends itself to versatility in other events.

Saturday's sched is looking like an FTF with keirins included, I think I'll come out and race for that... I'm stoked that the Concept should be ready by then.

Man I always figured there was a couple elite humans that could keep going all through...

I hate to pull out. But im not gonna race the track champs. I think ive come to the point of over training. I have been racing twice a week for awhile and feel sore at night a lot. So im taking two weeks off. No sense in killing myself. This is supposed to be fun and all. Ill rest up and come back and do a few FTF and a crit to finish off the season though. Then take it easy until cross. Ill still come out to watch the AVC though.

Totally. Ive had a few moments of racing where I ask myself 'Isnt this supposed to be fun?? This hurts. This is f*cking hell…'. But right now I gotta stop while im ahead to avoid injury and come back stronger.
Though I sometimes wonder why I race at all, it comes down to when I push myself I never feel more alive.

Come out to some FTF action in Aug Jeremy.