Pictured left to right: Marc Gwadz, AFRH Chief Operating Officer Tim Cox, Matt Donahue, Chris Clarke.
In recognition of their service to our country, and in gratitude for their generosity in letting us host the City Bikes DCCX race on their campus, DCMTB made a donation of $1000 along with a park bench to the residents of the Armed Forces Retirement Home.
The DCMTB crew came out to Rockburn cross with high spirits after having hosted City Bikes’ DCCX cyclocross race the weekend before. Notable performances included Marc Gwadz finishing strong in 15th in the Elite Masters race, as well as Chris Clarke with a solid 23rd. Two good efforts were made by guys bouncing back from sickness: Raul Rojas finished 17th in the Masters 3/4 while Matt Donahue finished 19th in the CAT 3/4 race. Other team members: Dave, JJ, Wiggy, Pooch, and Mike S, represented the team with fine performances. Darren and Michael experienced some mechanical issues. Darren threw in the towel before the final lap due to his mech. issues while Michael earned the trooper award for continuing on after he got a new wheel he picked up gave him crappy shifting through the end of the race.
More pics here: http://picasaweb.google.com/lovedabikes/RockburnCX08#
DCCX Men 1/2/3 10/26/2008
Category: 35 starters Winning Time: 60:54
Place Time Last Name First Name Team
1 1:00:54 SCHEMPF Weston C3-Sollay.com!
2 1:01:21 GALLAGHER Michael C3-SOLLAY.COM
3 1:02:07 LEE BOBBY
4 1:02:14 GALEGHER SEAN
5 1:02:37 LANGLEY Russ Batley- Harley Davidson
6 1:02:44 BUCKLES JEFF
7 1:02:44 WULFKAHLO ANDREW
8 1:02:57 WITTWER Greg ALAN North America Cycling Team
9 1:03:40 NIETERS Jared Haymarket Bicycles/Function Drinks
10 1:03:42 HESEL Todd Hunt Valley Bicycles/Marathon Roofing
11 1:05:18 HAYNES MASON
12 1:05:31 BREWER John Haymarket Bicycles p/b Function Drinks
13 1:05:36 WEAVER Dave ALAN N. America Cycling Team
14 FOUCHE Brian AVC/Team Hagerstown-Washington Co
15 JONES Taylor Inland Construction/BTD
16 Wagner James W
17 PAPADOPOULOS Yanni The Valley Athletic Club
18 SHOGREN Gunnar SoBe/Cannondale
19 1:03:47 Hipp Todd
20 1:03:57 ANDERSON Terry Haymarket Bicycles p/b Function Drinks
21 1:04:31 MCGILL Chris WV29er/CANNONDALE MTB TEAM
22 1:04:41 TILLE Dan Fulcrum Coaching
23 1:04:53 SEYMOUR Nate Potomac Velo Club
dnf WOOD David Bike Doctor Waldorf
dnf MILNE Judd
dnf ELLICOTT Evan Bike Doctor / Bayside Velo
dnf SPONSEL Alistair Team Type 1
dnf STOOP Michael Altius Cyclocross
dnf DEWALD Ryan Battley Harley Davidson
dnf DAVIS Michael Bike Doctor
dnf HAMMAKER KYLE
dnf WILCOX DAVID
dnf MAYHEW CHRIS
dnf VAN LIEROP ANTHONY
dns MACKAY Thomas Team Latitude
Elite Women 1/2/3
Category: 19 starters Winning Time:46:36
Place Tiime Last Name First Name Team
1 46:36:00 BUERKLE Patty Vanderkitten
2 46:51:00 GAVIN Kristin Human Zoom/Pabst Blue Ribbon
3 47:26:00 SHOGREN Elizabeth Sobe – Cannondale
4 47:32:00 KEMMERER Arley Hub Racing
5 47:34:00 SHELDON Libbey Tokyo Joe’s
6 47:48:00 WILLIAMS Samantha Sorella Cycling/BVM Engineering
7 48:23:00 SPANOGLE Terri NCVC/Inova Health System
8 48:30:00 CHURCH Kristine Human Zoom/ Pabst Blue Ribbon
9 48:39:00 BRISENO Christina C3-Sollay.com
10 48:59:00 Evers Sonja
11 51:54:00 ADAMS Kristina All American Bicycle Center
12 52:20:00 CARAVELLA SARAH
13 52:56:00 HARKER Marni Team Kenda Tire
14 53:10:00 CANDRIAN Lorena HPC powered by Altarum
DNF SWARTZ Melanie Velo Bella
DNF HARLOW Elizabeth C3-Sollay.com
DNF STARK Laura The Pony Shop
DNF HUIZING Marjan Team Kenda Tire
DNS MADEIRA Lindsay Vulvalution
Category: Masters 35+/45+ 123 47 starters Winning Time: 41:50
Place 45+ Time Last Name First Name Team
1 41:50:00 SAUNDERS Blair Secret Henry’s Team
2 42:00:00 GALLAGHER MICHAEL
3 X 42:31:00 KUTNEY Mark Van Dessel Cycles
4 X 42:32:00 SHOGREN Gunnar SoBe/Cannondale
5 42:34:00 AUER Kristopher C3-Sollay.Com
6 42:34:00 VAN LIEROP Anthony Hunt Valley Bicycles-Marathon Roofing/HVB
7 X 42:34:00 SHIAO Bernie Kelly Benefit Strategies/LSV Amateur Cycling
8 X 42:55:00 KOLB Michael C3-Sollay.com
9 42:55:00 GWADZ Marc DCMTB/City Bikes
10 43:19:00 MEALEY Sean Hunt Valley Bicycles/Marathon Roofing
11 43:29:00 NEWELL Chris Sublime Athletics Velo
12 X 43:30:00 CLARKE Christopher DCMTB/City Bikes
13 43:49:00 WAGNER James W.
14 X 43:55:00 CORDISCO JEFF
15 43:59:00 SCOTT CHRIS
16 X 44:07:00 HUEBNER Ron Potomac Velo Club
17 44:12:00 NYSTROM Chris C3-Sollay.com !
18 44:20:00 MILNE Judd
19 44:24:00 HOLMAN Barry Team Fuji
20 44:27:00 FRITSCH Joe College Park Bicycles
21 44:31:00 HOUGHTON Jonathan
22 X 44:48:00 MASSE Roger Trek/VW East
23 44:54:00 Paisley Scott Bike Doctor
24 X 44:56:00 DOWNING Shawn Chesapeake Wheelmen/King Pawn
25 45:00:00 MCGILL Chris WV29er/CANNONDALE MTB TEAM
26 X 45:16:00 GREENE Albert Yellow Breeches Racing
27 45:50:00 FUENTES Dave Battley Harley Davidson pb Van Dessel
28 46:10:00 BIRNER Michael Ben’s Performance Bike’s/BMC
29 46:12:00 BUCHNESS Michael PedalShop
30 X 47:29:00 KENSINGER Karl NCVC/Inova Health System
31 X 47:43:00 BRECKENMAKER Kevin Yellow Breeches Racing
32 X 48:16:00 LORTZ Chip kelly benefit strategies/lsv amateur racing
33 47:43:00 DAVIS Michael
34 48:16:00 LEAVER Erik NCVC/Inova Health System
35 49:00:00 LUMM BRANDON
36 50:50:00 DOWNS Jay Fort Factory Team/Wvu Healthcare
37 X (+1) 51:11 CZAPIEWSKI Peter AMVC/DND Inc
38 (+1) 42:34 ROHR Keith Adventures for the Cure
39 X (+1) 44:15 JINKS Mike BikeWorks Racing
40 (+1) 47:43 SAUNDERS James Route 1 Velo/Arrow Bicycles
dnf CONNOLLY Karl Kelly Benefit Strategies/LSV
dnf RALEY John ARTEMIS
dns X SIMONDS Joshua Clean Currents p/b Don Beyer Volvo
dnf GASTON Jeffrey
dnf X BILOTTA Tony Van Dessel Factory Team
dnf RUSNAK DAVID
dnf ELLICOTT EVAN
Cat 3/4 Men
91 starters Winning Time: 42:47
Place Time Last Name First Name Team
1 42:47 MATHIAS Ian Hunt Valley Bicycles / Marathon Roofing
2 43:01 DRISCOLL Alex Adventures For the Cure
3 43:35 DRISCOLL Adam Adventures For the Cure
4 44:07 MAYHEW Chris JBV Coaching
5 44:21 MURPHY Kyle The Bike Lane
6 44:32 FADER Evan Battley Harley Davidson pb Van Dessel
7 44:39 MUDD Jim Hunt Valley Bicycles/Marathon Roofing
8 44:48 FIFE Steve Bike Doctor
9 44:59 SANDUSKY Luke
10 45:07 PARSE Matt Route 1 Velo / Capitol Hill Bikes
11 45:09 BROADWATER Mark C3-Sollay.com
12 45:15 KENNEDY Peter C3-Sollay.com
13 45:18 ASHMAN Joseph
14 45:53 HERMANSON Charly Kelly Benefits Strategies/LSV Amateur Cycling
15 46:00 PEARCE Michael DCMTB/CITYBIKES
16 46:06 WALENCIKOWSKI Judd Bike Doctor
17 46:20 EBRIGHT Alex
18 46:27 HOSTETTER III John C3-Sollay.com
19 46:30 WILCOX David Cambridge Bicycle/Igleheart Frames
20 46:34 ECKSTEIN Drew
21 46:44 BANNON Ryan The Bike Lane
22 46:47 MONTE-SANO Alex
23 46:54 Mackay Thomas
24 47:12 CARRICO Robert Altius Cycling Team
25 47:18 ROBINSON Evan
26 47:35 HARDY Ryan C3-Sollay.com
27 47:36 RISKUS Stephen AABC
28 47:41 Shattuck Trevor Hunt Valley
29 47:51 BIGGS Darren DCMTB\City Bikes
30 48:07 CHAMBERLIN Andrew
31 48:09 NEWILL Ryan Squadra Coppi/IM Saab
32 48:17 DONAHUE Matthew DCMTB/City Bikes
33 48:20 FABER Gregoire NCVC/Inova Health System
34 48:31 MORRISON Ian Bike Doctor/Bayside Velo
35 48:47 LEA Syd
36 48:48 ESMONDE Mike Route 1 Velo/Capitol Hill Bikes
37 48:49 JAMMET Christophe CRCA/ NYVELOCITY
38 48:57 HENNESSY Matthew Team BBC
39 KELADA Samir
40 SCARDAVILLE Michael DCMTB/City Bikes
41 CHENENKO Nathan
42 49:38 BRANCHEAU Matthew Kelly Benefit Strategies/LSV Amateur Cycling
43 49:42 WALLACE Vaughn Trek of Pittsburgh
44 49:48 LUECKE Willaim
45 50:48 POOCHIGAN BRAIN
46 MONCTON Jonathan
47 51:24 DOUGLAS Ryan Route 1 Velo/Capitol Hill Bikes
48 (+1) 42:50 KOTUN Joseph Evolution Cycling
49 (+1) 43:31 KELLY Robert NCVC/Inova Health System
50 (+1) BRADSHAW Zachary Cycling Club of Virginia Commonwealth University
51 (+1) 43:38 CONGROVE Cj
52 (+1) 43:55 CERNICH Scott Route 1 Velo/Capitol Hill Bikes
53 (+1) 44:13 KLASMEIER Mike
54 (+1) 44:15 PITMAN Kyle Latitude/ABRT
55 (+1) MARMO Steven CRCA/Setanta
56 (+1) ROHRER John Antietam Velo Club
57 (+1) 45:55 SHARP II Brown
58 (+1) HELMING Matthew
59 (+1) 46:39 Bravo Richard
60 (+1) Sugar Richie
61 (+1) 47:54 KING Caleb
62 (+1) HELMING Christopher
63 (+1) 49:39 GASTON Jeffrey
64 (+1) 49:41 SMITH Phil
65 (+1) MONCTON Jonathan
66 (+1) GIORDANO John Johnny Wetnutz
67 (+1) 51:39 ? ?
68 (+1) 51:55 O’BRYAN Shaun Proteus Bicycles
69 (+1) 52:39 SCHREIBER -STAINTHORP Aaron 1723
70 51:17 VENTOSA Joseph proteus bicycles
dnf OKEEFE Sam C3-Sollay.com
dnf YEAGER Sean Altius Cycling Team
dnf KAMENICK John evolution cycling
dnf DUDEK Ryan Racing Union
dnf WAHL Stephen AVC/ Team Hagerstown-Washington Co
dnf HENRY Peter Team Carytown Bicycle Company
dnf HAMPTON Robb Bike Doctor/Bayside Velo
dns LUMM Brandon Route 1 Velo / Capitol Hill Bikes
dns BLACK Steven National Capital Velo Club/Inova Health
dns MILINKOVIC George Squadra Coppi/IM Saab
dns MUDD Jim Hunt Valley Bicycles/Marathon Roofing
dns CAMPBELL Robert Bike Line
dns KENDALL Steven NCVC/Inova Health System
dns BAVIER John The Bike Rack
dns KENDALL Bradley NCVC/Inova Health System
dns FOLEY Joe DCMTB/City Bikes
dns MCKEEGAN Patrick Monticello Velo Club/Blue Wheel
dns CAPELLE Greg
dns JOYNER Paul
dns SO Anthony
dns SAUNDERS Will HPC
Category: Cat 3/4 Women 38 starters
Place Time Last Name First Name Team
1 47:55 OLIVER Lynne DCMTB
2 COLSANT Jean Squadra Coppi
3 51:37 BAYER Lindsay Potomac Velo Club
4 51:40 VAVASORI Angela Hunt Valley Bicycles
5 51:48 HILLESHEIM Lindsey Squadra Coppi/IM Saab
6 53:08 Tile Misty SMT
7 54:13 ANDERSON Cynthia AMVC/DND Inc.
8 PITT Jennifer C3-Sollay.com
9 ALEX Mary Artemis
10 KILDAY Lisa DC Triathlon Club
11 TUFANO Allyson
12 JOHNSON Cynthia Artemis
13 PETERSAN Doron The Bike Rack
14 ROSS Heather The Bike Rack
15 WEHLBERG Christine
16 DUGOVICH Lindsay Hunt Valley Bicycles
17 ZADNIK NEWELL Mary Sublime Athletics Velo
18 CASTOR Sioban SquadraCoppi/Im Saab
19 +1 lap LEA Tracy T.E.A.M. FUJI
20 +1 lap KUMM Yo
21 +1 lap GAYNOR Caroline CRCA/PROASSHIT.dk
22 +1 lap FRUSTACE PATRICIA
23 +1 lap SNAVELY Mary Anne Altius Cycling Team
24 +1 lap SWETT Tia
25 +1 lap HUEBNER Christina Potomac Velo Club
26 +1 lap HAMMOND Christine Bike Dr Waldorf
27 +1 lap Madeira Lindsey
28 +1 lap LOPARCO Karen
29 +1 lap NEWBURY Tris DCMTB/CityBikes
30 +2 lap MONTE-SANO Chauncey
31 +1 lap KESSEL Ellen Artemis
DNF FINNEY Christie The Children in the Shoe Preschools and Daycare
DNF KNOPF Ilana DCMTB/City Bikes
DNF BAE Young-Sue
DNF FRANKO Jennifer Proteus Bicycles
DNF HUDSON Ashley Feedback Sports
DNF WILLIAMSON Christine
DNF SCHLEGEL Noelle
Category: 35+ 3/4 Men 90 starters
Place 45+ 55+ Time Last Name First Name
1 37:30:00 BLODGETT David
2 37:31:00 LILLIBRIDGE Joe
3 X 38:08:00 FRAZER Marc
4 38:08 HUHN Chris
5 38:08 KREISELMEIER Norman
6 X 38:10 WAHNER Paul
7 38:45 THOMPSON Scott
8 38:47 WILLIAMSON Brent
9 38:52 SEIBOLD Jonathan
10 39:05:00 MAY Johnny
11 39:08:00 MACON Chris
12 X 39:12:00 ROGERS John
13 39:12 Baake Kent
14 Beshore Michael
15 39:14:00 VAUGHN Tom
16 39:18 HEFFERNAN Mike
17 39:22:00 BERRY Jason
18 39:39:00 MICHEL Matt
19 39:42 WOODROW Ken
20 40:03 JENSEN Peter
21 40:26 MILLER Jim
22 40:44:00 SMITH Phil
23 X 984:00 SLOMAN Eric
24 41:07 GWADZ Joel
25 41:08:00 HEINTZ Geoffrey
26 41:21:00 ENGBLOM Thor
27 41:23:00 GUTZEIT Andreas
28 X 41:25:00 KOTUN Joseph
29 41:29:00 ? ?
30 41:39:00 HUDDLESTON Scott
31 X 41:43:00 IRVINE Ronne
32 X 41:45:00 WANCO Mark
33 41:47 Kamenick John
34 X 41:50 MESSERSMITH John
35 42:04:00 WALSH Ryan
36 42:12:00 KRAWCZEL Mike
37 X 42:13:00 OKEEFE Bill
38 42:24:00
39 X 42:35:00 WOLFE Thori
40 42:37:00 ADAIR Chris
41 X 42:38:00 KLOSE Steve
42 42:46:00
43 SCHIEKEN William
44 Wigfield Mark
45 43:36:00 WILLIAMS Rodney
46 43:41:00 PENANO Joe
47 43:51:00 GUE Todd
48 43:53:00 SCHULZ George
49 X X 43:59:00 LEA Rob
50 44:01:00 VANNIER Dave
51 X 44:23:00 TAMBEAUX David
52 X 44:36:00 CARLISLE James
53 44:38:00 CUSACK Patrick
54 45:23:00 ANDERSON Dave
55 X X (+1) 45:37 DIBIASI Nunzio
56 46:02:00 LINDEMAN Peter
57 46:05:00 COLBY Robert
58 (+1) 37:41 BLANCHARD Timothy
59 (+1) 37:50 MATHIAS Michael
60 X X (+1) 38:26 Frawozl Frank
61 X X (+1) 38:53 FRAZIER Barry
62 X WEBB Greg
63 X (+1) 39:57 ZOELLER Michael
64 (+1) 40:15 GULL Jason
65 (+1) 40:20 MARCHAL Matthew
66 (+1) 41:53 MAISTO John
67 X (+1) 44:23 THOMPSON Tony
68 (+1) 43:01 BRACH Norman
69 X (+1) 45:53 GILMAN Daniel
70 X X (+1) 46:17 BRIGGS James
71 (+1) 46:96 PRICE Sean
dns 402 CUSACK Patrick
dns 405 BILLINGTON Bryan
dns
dns X 409 KAY David
dns
dns X 411 ANDERSON Jeff
dns X 413 REVERE James
dns 414 DRAJEM Mark
dns 416 ROJAS Raul
dns
dns 418 DONTIGNY Steven
dns X
dns 421 ARCHER Brian
dns 425 MCNEELY James
dns 427 CORREAL Andres
dns 428 BERNARD Darren
dns 429 BROWNE William
dns 438 TWYMAN Corey
dns 442 GRONVALL Peter
dns 446 BEATY Geoffrey
dns 448 GOULD Christopher
dns X 449 MORRIS Gary
dns X 450 SNYDER Thomas
dns 457 SHATTUCK Trevor
dns X 463 TOVAR Eric
dns X 464 PAISLEY Scott
dns 465 WILLIAMSON Brent
dns 466 MCDOWELL Kenneth
dns X 468 LUECKE William
dns 473 WHITTAKER Robert
dns 485 ROBINSON Evan
dns X 488 Hayes Peter
dns 600 Byer Marty
` Masters 55+ 1,2,3,4
6 starters Winning Time:43:59
Place Time Bib # Last Name First Name Team
1 43:59 491 LEA Rob T.E.A.M FUJI
2 (+1) 45:37 490 DiBiasi Nunzio Yellow Breeches Racing
3 (+1) 38:26 497 Frawozl Frank
4 (+1) 38:53) 494 FRAZIER Barry
5 (+1) 46:17 493 BRIGGS James
dnf 492 WILLIAMS Ben Team Latitude/ABRT/Redline
dns 496 WITTWER Fred Van Dessel Factory Team Va.
Cat 4 Men 100 starters
DCCX ‘08
Place Time Last Name First Name
1 40:18 BARTLETT Matthew
2 41:01 RADES Paul
3 41:30 TROY Andrew
4 41:32 FABER Gregoire
5 41:56 BICKLING Todd
6 41:57 DOUGLAS Ryan
7 42:01 FLYNN Brian
8 42:41 CARROLL Matt
9 42:41 CARRAWAY Chris
10 42:43 BASSETT Benjamin
11 42:57 CERNICH Scott
12 42:59 BATTAN David
13 43:02 BECKMANN Brian
14 43:02 WELCH Andrew
15 43:07 CUTLER John
16 43:22 GIANCOLI Michael
17 43:30 SCOTT John
18 43:32 WHEATON Jonathan
19 43:34 PEARLMAN Jason
20 43:39 MOORE Thom
21 43:47 MORALI Jay
22 43:50 KRALEC James
23 44:00 BLAIR Patrick
24 44:10 HALL Josh
25 44:19 GLODEK John
26 44:28 CALDWELL Elliott
27 44:33 PHILLIPS Timothy
28 44:41 WOLFE Thori
29 44:47 SMEAD Chris
30 44:47 ROGERS Zachary
31 44:48 GUE Todd
32 44:53 MATTINGLY Chris
33 44:55 SCHIAVO Mike
34 44:59 SCHMIERER Brian
35 45:03 HEYWOOD John
36 45:09 OWENS Douglas
37 45:19 LEWANDOWSKI Adam
38 45:27 MCCASLAND William
39 45:29 SODA Chris
40 45:30 BRADLEY Brian
41 45:40 MITCHELL Arthur
42 45:55 GHAIS Aaron
43 45:58 LARUE John
44 45:59 CARLISLE James
45 46:04 KONIOWSKY Danny
46 46:12 HICKS Jon
47 46:13 TUCKER Matt
48 46:34 ZACHARY Rich
49 47:28 BAKER Matt
50 47:46 VICHICH Mark
51 47:49 NADAS Joshua
52 47:51 HOHENBRINK Richard
53 47:57 WIESENHAHN David
54 48:07 KLINE James
55 48:09 VENTOSA Joseph
56 48:16 PAXSON Brian
57 48:23 BAVIER John
58 49:00 HAYDEN Rene
59 49:10 AYERS Nathan
60 49:13 BROXTERMAN Brian
61 49:32 MARESCA Kevin
62 (+1) 40:55 PAUL Timothy
63 (+1) 40:51 MOORE Tchad
64 (+1) 40:57 PEEL Jeff
65 (+1) 41:30 GEARHART Scott
66 (+1) 41:55 BREEDEN Steve
67 (+1) 42:24 DUCNUIGEEN Jan
68 (+1) 42:34 GRONVALL Peter
69 (+1) 42:35 WILCOX Mark
70 (+1) 43:05 GAYFORD Mathew
71 (+1) 43:34 COHEN Josh
72 (+1) 45:11 MORRIS Kenneth
73 (+1) 45:49 ENGLEMAN Patrick
74 (+1) 46:02 COOK John
75 (+1) 47:21 CHOU Leon
76 (+1) 48:33 SCHOTT Sol
77 (+1) 49:15 HARRINGTON Brian
78 (+1) 49:56 HOLBEN Chris
dnf WHARTON Craig
dnf MARKS Jeffery
dnf TRESSLER Lyal
dnf ALLEN Alex
dnf SUGAR Richie
dnf JONES Thomas
dnf TABOR Ben
dnf EVEN Matthew
dnf PLOTZ Mark
dnf SCHLITZER Henry
dnf SWANSON Derek
dnf LUDICKE John
dnf ANKRAH Rodges
dnf VALDEZ Samuel
dnf MORRISON Ian
dnf MCGRATH Glenn
dnf PORTER Read
dnf HOLM Chad
dnf HUDSON Benjamin
dnf O’BRIEN Conor
dnf KENNEDY Andrew
dnf RESNICK Justin
Juniors 17-18 6 starters
Place Place in 3/4 field Time Bib # Last Name Team Racing Age
1 23 46:50:00 394 BLACK
2 40 390 LORTZ III Kelly Benefits Strategies 17
3 65 48:25:00 391 MAUCH NCVC/Inova Health System 15
4 67 49:09:00 392 KLOSE Adventures for the Cure 16
dnf 393 TAMBEAUX Adventures for the Cure 15
395 BYER
Category: Jun 10-16 15 starters
Bib # Place Time Last Name First Name Team
182 1 16:04 KLOSE Jimmy Adventures for the Cure
181 2 16:08 MAUCH Justin NCVC/Inova Health System
193 3 18:55 BYER MAX
194 4 20:10 TAMBEAU LARS
187 5 21:02 THOMPSON Jake Squadra Coppi/IM Saab
185 6 21:05 BELL Noah RacerHeads SLC
183 7 22:01 KLOSE Tommy Adventures for the Cure
176 8 22:35 BATTON NICK
184 9 23:50 ROHR Holden Adventures for the Cure
192 10 24:36 YAGER Nolan
190 11 25:37 ROHR Avy Adventures for the Cure
191 12 26:46 SOREFF JONES Jacob proteus
186 13 31:56 ENGBLOM Nicholas NCVC/Inova Health System
188 DNF REVERE Ethan Altius Cycling Team
189 DNF BELL Daniel Racerheads SLC
Weston Schempf of C3-Sollay.com claimed his second consecutive victory in the City Bikes DCCX Cyclocross Race in
Schempf rode away from the rest of the men’s field early in last year’s race, but had a much more difficult path to victory in the second-annual event. The hard work of teammate Mike Gallagher and untimely crashes by two other members of the five-man lead group allowed him to pull away for the victory. Gallagher held off U.S. Olympian Bobby Lea for his second, second-place finish of the day.
Whole Foods’ women’s elite race Patty Buerkle of Vanderkitten took a flier from the leading group of women’s riders and got into a two-woman breakaway with Kristin Gavin of Human Zoom/Pabst Blue Ribbon. Buerkle broke away later in the race to win it all. Sobe – Cannondale’s Betsy Shogren, who won the event last year, ended up third.
The race, the only cyclocross race held in the nation’s capital, had more than 400 registered riders, and hundreds more spectators who came out to enjoy the grounds of the AFRH, the frites prepared by biking legend Scott Scudamore and lots of free-flowing refreshments.
The Belgian Embassy chipped in too, sponsoring the Li’l Belgians kids’ race, which had more than four-dozen competitors ranging from age three to 10. Anxious parents were treated to a tasty Cote d’Or chocolate after their kids’ raced.
The race was held on a classic, European-style cyclocross course, with lots of transitions from road to a grass. The course was softened but not thoroughly muddied by a pounding rain the day before. It had a tricky barrier and some slick roots to keep things interesting; even a few of the top riders sported bloodied shins or lips by the end of their races.
The DC Mountain Bike Team sponsored DCCX with the assistance of sponsors City Bikes, Whole Foods Market – P Street, Sticky Fingers Bakery, Sonoma Restaurant and Wine Bar, DrinkMore Water, Looking Glass Lounge, CX Magazine and the wonderful Belgian restaurant Granville Moore’s, which supplied its horseradish sauce for the frites.
Whole Foods upped the payout for the elite women this year, and the field of 22 starters was nearly four times as big as last year’s and the largest women’s elite field in MABRA’s history. Mid-Atlantic cross “just seems to get more and more competive,” said Gavin, who drove in from Philadelphia for the race.
The elite men’s race, with 35 starters, had a field twice as big as last year’s. It showed. Schempf, who lives in nearby Bethesda, moved out front with a group of five riders early in the elite race, including teammate Gallagher. They put distance on any chasers, but with ample open road sections, no one could break free of the pack.
With a few laps to go, two members of the group crashed coming on to a small bridge, and Schempf jumped free. Gallagher, who had his bike slide out from under him as he vied for the lead in the elite master’s race a few hours earlier, avoided that crash and stuck close to Schempf for second.
“It’s a deceptive course,” Schempf said. “It was nice to know I didn’t have to do all the work alone.”
Blair Saunders of Henry’s Bikes, who led a futile effort to catch Schempf in DCCX last year, instead rode away from a stacked field in the elite masters race this time around. Saunders eased off the gas as mountain-bike legend Gunnar Shogren of Sobe – Cannondale and Mark Kutney of Van Dessel Cycles fought it out for the first-lap prime. He put an attack on them just a few minutes later.
“They weren’t motivated to chase,” Saunders deadpanned. From that point, only Gallagher could fight his way onto his wheel, but “he took the corner too hot, and that was the race,” said Saunders, who won by 10 seconds. “I wish every course could be like this, with this many road sections.”
The Cat 3/4 race was also decided by a crash. The race leader hit a slick root on the back of the course, went flying, and took down Adam Driscoll of Adventures for the Cure, who was cruising along just behind him. His brother Alex, in the third spot, just steered clear of the carnage, but wasn’t so lucky a few minutes later when a lapped rider swerved into his path. Ian Mathias of Hunt Valley Bicycles won the race, Alex was second and Adam third.
In the women’s 3/4 race, which had a Mabra-record 34 pre-registered riders, mountain-biking ace Lynne Oliver of DCMTB crushed the competition in her first-ever cyclocross race.
Results are here.
Photos: Joe Foley on Flickr
Video is here.
Photos and blog here: http://www.gwadzilla.blogspot.com/
Break out your best costume for Sunday’s DCCX race. The rider judged to have the best getup will get a box of premium Belgian chocolates, donated by the Belgian Embassy.
We’re also going to give a box of candy to the first rider spotted bunny hopping the barriers and as a prime to the leader of the women’s B race after the first lap.
Good luck to all the contestants!
Forget racing, the food at DCCX is shaping up to be the highlight of the day. We’ve already induced mountain bike legend Scott Scudamore to man the frites tent and Sonoma Restaurant and Wine Bar to donate beer.
Now there is this: the DC Dutch Club has agreed to show up and make “poffertjes“! (Dollar size pancakes served with butter and powdered sugar.)
Granville Moore’s, Washington, D.C.’s best Belgian restaurant, has agreed to donate a horseradish sauce for the frites and Karen LoParco, a referee and former chef, has jumped in and will offer her own special, homemade andalouse sauce, too.
Frites, poffertjes, beer, Stickey Fingers baked goods and Drink More Water. Yum.
The Washington Post had a great article about cyclocross and the DCCX race this past Sunday called, “Hoist and Ride: Cyclocross Returns to DC.”
Key quote: “It’s technical, it’s hard, but it’s a great way for people to start, to get their feet wet.”
Check it out here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/16/AR2008101603290.html
Another great article is here, in VeloNews: http://www.velonews.com/article/84382/historic-venue-for-city-bikes-dccx-cyclocross-race
DCCX, the only cyclocross race held in the nation’s capital, will be held on
October 26 on the grounds of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in NW Washington, DC. Registration is now open on BikeReg.com.
http://www.bikereg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=7143
For the second-annual event, race promoters DCMTB/City Bikes are building on
last year’s exciting, successful race and will offer improvements to an already awesome race experience — and provide even more extra-curricular fun for
racers, kids and spectators. DCCX joined the MABRA cross series this year.
Three ways the fun continues from last year:
Three ways the race will be so much better this year:
What you need to do:
Other Notes:
DCCX is also sponsored by Cyclocross Magazine.
Course layout can be seen at:
http://tinyurl.com/4r6nve
Use the satellite view. Distance 2 miles. In last year’s dry conditions the top B and masters riders did 5 laps in their 45-minute race. The winning elite men averaged seven minutes a lap.
Photos from last year’s race: http://picasaweb.google.com/ou98dtbiggs/DCCX
The write up of last year’s race is here: http://www.dcmtb.com/blog/archives/222
Starting order will be based on the most recent MABRA 2008 CX Series standings, order of registration, and promoter discretion. The most recent MABRA-Cross standings will be used to call up the first 2 rows (16 spots), then racers will line up row by row, as determined by order of registration/bib number. There are no call-ups for the 9am/Cat 4 Men race. Racers will line up by row based on order of registration.
39 Mark Drajem DCMTB/City Bikes 5:03:59.2
As I slogged up the big last climb of Hogshead hill, three-
quarters of the way through my third Iron Cross race, I did a quick
calculation and realized I was in good shape for a fast finish — at
least fast for me. “All I need to do is avoid a mechanical failure
or a physical breakdown,” I thought.
Cue the ominous music.
The race had gone well up to this point. I started closer to
the front, and was able to get into some faster groups on the road. I
handled the trail section better than I had before — even passing a
few tentative roadies.
Now, probably halfway up this 30-minute climb, there was a
short, fast descent on the gravel road. I must have nailed a sharp
rock because may back tire punctured. It wasn’t good, but thats’ just
par for the course on these rough roads and rocky trails. Then the
disaster: I pulled out a new tube from my bag to find the sickening
sight of a schrader valve. What a numbskill packing job on my part. I
had two spare tubes, but I might as well as carried rocks in my bag.
There were two guys stopped nearby but neither had a tube. I decided
to start hiking. After about five or ten minutes of walking a good
Samaritan offered help. He tossed me a tube and a few moments later I
was back on my way.
The last 12 miles of the race is through some fun single and
double track. It was fun riding, until the short climbs hit. My legs
were rebelling; they had no juice and were starting to cramp. It was
a slog up every uphill, but I redeemed myself by passing this DC Velo
roadie in the singletrack and holding him off when he took a slight
wrong turn on the final road section. In the end I finished in 5:04
to the cheers of my kids and parents.
Mark Wigfield was the other DCMTB rider out there, and he
finished just a few minutes later, looking strong and happy.
I’ve been singing the praises of Iron Cross these past few
year and love the mix of climbing, pack riding on the road and trail
sections. Those last few sections of hike-a-bike on the trail,
though, are incredibly miserable. I’m not sure I can bear it again
next year. Who knows, though. In another 350 days I may feel
differently.
49 Mark Wigfield DCMTB/City Bikes 5:18
The most fun part about this race for me is riding singletrack on the cross bike. You can find a good line most of the time, and it’s just a blast picking your way through it. Also gives mtnbikers an advantage because lots of people walk stuff or take it slowly. The first stretch of singletrack has a long downhill section threading through rocks, and the roadies were standing on the side of the trail watching. I’m not sure why it’s so much fun — it’s probably the trail itself, the novelty of it, and it takes me back to when I was a kid in pre-mtnbiking days and would sometimes take a sidetrip on a trail w/ my schwinn 3-speed. Didn’t work that well but was fun! Near the end, before you get to Drajem’s bane (a deceptively steep climb out in the sun on scrabbly, energy-sucking dirt trail cutting through what looks like some kind of reclamation site), the single track is fast and swoopy through the woods and I passed a lot of folks. Felt good. That said, I would say only about 10% of the course is singletrack, so you have to be ready for lots of fire road, gravel road and blacktop ridng. I was running 35s at 50 psi, which worked well enough for me.
There are also some screamingly fast road downhills on this course that are a blast, but watch that deep gravel on the back roads. I didn’t see too much blood this year from wipe outs on gravel, but one woman last year lost a lot of skin. The climbing is tough, no doubt. I was able to ride all the road/fire road climbs w/ a low gear of 28/39, but was off the bike a couple of times on the off-road sections.
I think my time was about 5:18 — though not sure. If it was, I was about 3 min slower than last year, but considering i didn’t train for or ride the SM100 this year, didn’t feel bad about the time at all. The everyman goal for this race is a sub 6-hour time. If you want to place, you gotta bust your butt.
By Marc, Joel Gwadz and Darren
All the rain just put a different spin on Ed Sanders compared to the
dry, dusty 2007 campaign and didn’t cause any problems with the
general ride-ability of the course. my specialize tri-cross frame
was chosen in large part to avoid mud/grass buildup at races like ed
sanders (big clearance front and rear), and it worked great.
I got a front row call up as defending 35+ series winner and got a
good start, latching on to Mark Kutney’s wheel. Anthonhy von Lierop
worked his way up from somewhere back in the pack to take 2nd wheel,
and I made a decision not to try to match Kutney’s pace, which would
certainly be more than I could manage. About lap 2 as I sat somewhere
between the lead pair and a chase group, I slid out off my bike on the
2nd little drop in. I didn’t waste a lot of time, but a few seconds
and restart was enough to cost me several spots
although it is confusing to my near competitors who apparently know
how to ride a bike, I managed to mess this section up just about every
time, though I did my mess-ups differently each time to keep it
interesting. sliding out, falling, going left in weeds, right in
weeds- no bad method was left untried.
fortunately, I was feeling very strong on the flat sections that make
up most of the course, and was able to my way back past mike birner, a
cracked von lierop and finally dropped Chris Nystrum for good on the
last lap. Kutney was somewhere up the road out of sight, but I dangled
behind my crossreults.com arch nemeses randy root and bernie schiao. I
might have been only 10″ or so back, but was unable to close despite
my attempts on the last couple laps.
all in all a strong effort and a good start for the MABRA series. I
was 4th in the field, but 1st in 35+ – the other guys were 45+. so ,
maximum point in the 35+ subgroup, quirky though that might be.
Chris Clarke had a very strong showing – 8th overall in elite masters,
4th in 45+.
Mark Drajem, Raul, and myself were all lined up with the Masters B
we all raced pretty close together which made for an interesting race within the race
I worked hard to trail both Mark and Raul
eventually Drajem and I swapped spots
but I could not bridge the gap between Raul and myself
worked hard… but where I worked hard Raul must have been working hard too
because instead of me closing the gap Raul widened the margin
The B race was fast and furious and was a pretty packed field. Matty D represented DCMTB well had a strong first half and settled into his placing for the day. Darren had a bobble in the first lap, and then had a steady effort that didn’t make him DFL might as well have been in his book. He felt the effects of racing his second B race after racing the C’s last year.
In all turned out to be a good day to watch the races, and people were talking about DCCX even when they were at another cross race!