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RFK Crit

by: Darren Biggs

We had a pretty good turnout at the RFK Crit on Sunday. Here is a rundown of the people that were there.
Womens Pro Race
11th Lorena Candrian (in her HPC/List Kit)

Mens Masters
(From Marc) It was a fun race, despite the heat! pace was pretty high in the masters
field (lots of time over 30mph, average almost 27mph- how fast were the
other races?), but the overall effort wasn’t a high average wattage for
us (both chris and I had our power meters and both of us were way below
average threshold power- and at least for me , well below threshold
Heart-rate) it’s just a very spikey series of efforts- off and on, off
and on…
I spent the first half of the race getting used to doing the U-turns-
not a lot of turning on the capital crescent trail…
I made one attempt to bridge to break with a few laps to go. Super Dave
Osbourne made a big pull to bring the field back to me then sat on my
wheel when he caught up. I wanted to at least finish with the pack, so I
didn’t want to risk over-cooking it on the bridge by fullly committing
to the move. but afterwards I sort of wished I had stuck it out rather
than let the pack get me so easily.
Chris played it pretty cool in the race and was in a good position on
the last lap. I was further back at that point as as the speed ramps up
to over 30mph it gets harder to move up. but I actually felt pretty good.
great race, and fun seeing everyone out there.
thanks to Bega for hooking us up with race entries and for all the help
he gives us. I’d also like to give thank Big Shawn at Chevy Chase for
helping me get hooked up with some road pedals late saturday night- I
decided I wanted the extra turning clearance of road pedals for one
thing! It’s real nice to have the CB guys behind us.

9 Chris Clarke (in his NCVC Kit)
30 Marc Gwadz

Cat 4
(from Eric) My race went off at 4pm… I did not handle the heat well. the race didn’t feel fast I was able to move up the field just over heated with about three laps to go. hung on for another pack finish…. I think steve broke the top 20…good times,

26 Steven Viers (in his Pedal Shop Kit)
Field Eric Welp

Cat 5
For the men’s Cat 5 Race it was Mike S. Matt D. and Me Darren B. The race was really short, and we started at 8:45am but could already feel the heat. It was cool having the three of us there, and since the field was small we were able to stick together if we wanted. The race had like 8-10 Capital Hill bike guys and I thought they would have controlled the race more, but they were not organized. I ended in second place in the peleton at one point so I then decided to go out on a solo attempt. I did it cause I thought well at least the capital hill bike guys will have to chase me down. I did a lap and some in change in front of the field, partly because Matt, and Mike were in front after I left and slowed up, making others chase me down. I did get my name announced twice on the speaker system since I was in the lead twice around the start/finish line! After I got caught it was in the last lap , the official tried to encourage me to get back to the field , but I was cooked. I did get to see Matty D get third since I was so far off the back I sat up and watched the sprint.

3 Matt Donahue
22 Mike Scardaville
(close to DFL) Darren Biggs

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