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Women’s Peloton Talks ATOC Women’s Crit 11 May 2014 6:45 PM (10 years ago)
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Women’s peloton talks about the 2014 Amgen Tour of California Women’s Criterium. Includes Carmen Small, Robin Farina, Kathryn Bertine, Alison Tetrick, Coryn Rivera, Beth Newell, Morgan Patton Brown, Linda Jackson and Jono Coulter.
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Photos from the Amgen Tour of California Women’s Criterium won by Carmen Small (Specialized-lululemon). Coryn Rivera (UnitedHealthcare) was second and Brianna Walle (Optum), third.
Nolan is Okay, best face plant ever 24 Nov 2013 2:39 PM (11 years ago)
Late in the UCI Junior 17-18 men’s race on day two of the MudFund Derby City Cup, a four-rider group made its approach to one of the sand pits with Nolan Brady (Rad Racing NW) at the back of the group. The four were battling for fourth place in the race.
Four-rider group approaches the sand pit
In red, Nolan Brady (Rad Racing NW) takes one of the lines
So far so good
Brady is still riding the sand
Brady unclips one foot and uh oh
Face first in the sand while still clipped in with one foot
Brady starts to get up
Meanwhile, one rider catches and passes Brady
Nolan Brady – racing age 17 – got up and finished 8th
Rosskopf Going for the Podium 6 Apr 2013 5:20 PM (11 years ago)
After a surprising ride in the opening time trial at the Redlands Bicycle Classic which placed him in fourth place, Joey Rosskopf‘s intent was clear as he told podiuminsight, the goal is the overall podium. His actions on stage 1 in the Beaumont Circuit stage, showed how determined he was when he want into two breaks and even became virtual leader on the road. Though he ultimately lost a few positions overall, Rosskopf is still only 14 seconds down in the general classification and is still gunning for one of those three steps.
On the third of fifth lap, the 23-year old rider on the Hincapie Sportswear Development Cycling Team, followed one of the many counter-moves after the first break was reeled in.
“A lot of moves on the hill before the feedzone so I just followed a big one, we didn’t have anyone in just to cover.” Rosskopf told podiuminsight. The gap went up to two minutes making Rosskopf the virtual yellow on the road but the break was doomed to failure with little cooperation amongst the riders.
“It wasn’t great. Everyone in the break has teammates in good GC position.” he continued. “Two guys were sitting on and after another lap, everyone started attacking.”
Joey Rosskopf (Hincapie Sportswear) is virtual leader on the road
Not done, Rosskopf attacked again on the ultimate lap but was reeled back in and finished in the main group with the yellow jersey Chad Haga (Optum p/b KBS).
It ain’t over until the fat lady sings. “Hopefully nothing crazy happens tomorrow (Saturday), it’s just a sprint, and try again on Sunday.”
It all started with his breakthrough time trial ride on Thursday. “I had never really done that well in a time trial so I didn’t really have much faith in doing well.” he said with a laugh on Thursday. “I have done a lot of things different this year. I think that we have some of the best equipment and I’ve actually been able to keep my time trial bike at home and train on it, stuff like that. Plus I didn’t really race that much last year so I didn’t get to compare myself to these guys.”
“I felt good, I felt smooth, some days in my TT, I feel like I’m fighting it all the time, I was comfortable. It was a good day.”
His time of 15:07 on the 7.8-mile Big Bear Lake course put him on the hot seat for the next hour and 20 minutes. “I was only the fifth rider to go off so I expected to be the fastest time when I came through and then, it held up for another hour or something and then I started hoping that I would stay on the podium. It’s pretty cool to go through, nothing I ever done on a time trial before.”
One factor that led to a great ride was knowing the course. “I think the huge advantage is that we went up there and pre-rode the course a couple of days ago. I don’t know how many teams got to do that. We got to do a couple laps of it, went over the curvy sections a few times so I knew it. I always knew what was coming up, I always knew where the turns were, it was definitely an advantage.”
And the altitude, over 6,000 feet, was not a factor for the Athens, Georgia resident.
But really, it started days, weeks and months before Thursday’s time trial for Rosskopf on his first year with his. “I just have way more support, especially regarding time trials this year since joining Hincapie Sportswear. I have one of the nicest bikes you can get, HED wheels, Giro helmet, you can’t ask for better equipment and then, the team is just completely behind every rider, they want you to be good on it so they encourage everyone to take their bike home with them. I think a lot of teams that the riders see their TT bikes three times a year when they show up at a race and have never ridden it before.”
“My time trial results have always lagged behind my road results, I’ve always done better on the road. With this specific time trial support, there’s no reason that my time trial results shouldn’t catch up to where I am on the road.”
Rosskopf’s results on the road include a fourth place at the hard one-day race Tour of the Battenkill last year. For most of 2012, he worked as a domestique for the Team Type 1 squad.
Given his time trial result, is it time to look at Rosskopf as a potential GC racer?
“It just depends on the course. I’ve noticed for the past couple of years that I fade after a few days. I think I’m definitely better at a one-day or one or two day race because I’m just really capable of going deep and going into the box on one day. I can do a lot of damage to myself in one day and not realizing it until I try to race another few days in a row.” he replied.
“I can’t really be a GC rider if there’s a hilltop finish. I think at Redlands I’m fine, I want to be on the podium. I think that’s totally realistic, the courses here are good for me. A couple of long days, the hills are hard but there are no climbs.”
Joey Rosskopf (Hincapie Sportswear) attacks again on the final lap
The battle for the overall win which heated up on the Beaumont Circuit Race is only going to intensify on the final stage, the Sunset Loop road race. Rosskopf hopes to exploit the fact that he is an unknown quality for the big boys fighting for the top step.
“I would like to play that card because a lot of the guys have ten years more experience than I do and almost won this race or won this race in the past. Our team is as strong as the other teams and I know that we’re a closer knit group of guys. I live with two teammates and our mechanic in Athens so when I travel to the race it’s like I’m traveling with my best friends and everyone else on the team is from the Southeast mostly so I’ve known all these guys since I started racing.”
“I have confidence in our team, I’m sure that other teams don’t have in us, I don’t think they know the quality of the young guys on our team and hopefully that can play in our favor.”
Andy Jacques-Maynes Injured in Hit and Run During Training Ride 16 Dec 2012 5:07 PM (12 years ago)
On his way home at the end of a training ride earlier today, Andy Jacques-Maynes was injured in a hit and run after a car swerved into the bike lane. Injuries sustained include a probable broken shoulder blade and collarbone as well as road rash on his right side.
“I was just on my way back to here, riding in the bike lane, just yesterday I was riding on the same road, I’ve probably ridden on that road to end almost every ride.” Jacques-Maynes told podiuminsight.
“All of a sudden there’s a car up under my elbow, clips my bar, this loud bang – I don’t even remember seeing it, I heard it and then it just tossed me to the ground. I just slid to a stop and so I have a bunch of road rash, whatever, but I landed straight on my shoulder and instantly popped up and I was like oh, oh. But even as I was sliding, looking up (and thinking) ‘what the hell was that?’ I could see the car, just driving away, they never hit their brakes, no nothing.”
“I hadn’t even stopped sliding and I was yelling ”What the f*ck’. I was pissed.”
Sitting at home and in obvious pain with his left arm in a sling, the 34-year old added, “I can’t really move or do anything. I can sit here and be kind of comfy and then I move a millimeter and I just lock up and it hurts so f*cking bad. It’s pretty awful.”
Jacques-Maynes was hit on Holohan avenue, in Watsonville, a straight road with a bike lane. He identified the car as a black Chevrolet Impala.
“I stuck around for awhile until the CHP showed up, did a report and all that. I caught the tiniest glimpse of the car, who knows if I even said the right make or identified it properly because it was so split second.”
“Then we just drove off to the hospital in San Jose, got a bunch of x-rays and I have an appointment tomorrow to find out more, but pretty sure that my shoulder blade is broken, it feels that my collarbone is broken but it’s kind of being held together by my plate that’s already in there. I can touch, and that doesn’t feel good. It’s not one hundred percent and the trauma doc at the ER was like ‘yeah it looks all good’ and I was like ‘okay for you, all good means that I’m not bleeding internally’. I’m alive and now I have to go see more docs to figure out exactly the extent of the damage.”
The same collarbone was broken in a horrendous crash at the Memorial Day criterium in 2007 when Jacques-Maynes crashed straight into a lamp poll. That day the extent of his injuries included a bruised lung, several fractures to the rib connectors to his thoracic spine, several m-plate fractures (connector to the vertebrae), both of his clavicles & scapula.
He had planned to race the final Surf City Cyclo-X race of the season later that afternoon with his brother Ben. “This was going to be my last race and then it was going to be skiing every weekend.”
“What a pain in the ass but it could have been a lot worst too. I could have easily died. It’s just crappy.”
It does suck but it could have been much worst. Earlier today, Spanish mountain biker Iñaki Lejaretta was killed during a training ride when he was struck by a car.