Mojo's Winter Wonderland Crit Series
Race #1
March 1st, 2003
Today's race brought to you by Santa Fe Bicycle and Coffee Shop, Tailwind Cycle and Fitness, Ruta Maya Coffee, and Cottin's hardware..
Fifty-five hearty cyclists ushered spring in with a snowy wet spring criterium bike race. Racers thanked Andy & Cindy Cocha along with Catherine Hackman and company for chipping, salting, and shoveling pockets of snow and ice of the course.
Racers were treated to true "Classics" weather, temps hovered around freezing with light to heavy snow. The same classic weather that helped harden Steve Tilford and Scott Moniger two Kansas racers who rank with the toughest Pros in the world.
Four juniors in Alta Sport FREE juniors gut it out for a 4 mile sleigh ride. Team X's Adam Lang and Garrick Valverde place 1st and 2nd and
The twenty rider Masters race was a sprinting clinic by Team X's Steve Rouff. Steve was seen looking back on several sprints while sitting down. Rumor has it Steve was overheard muttering something about P.O.D.
Andy Cocha placed 6th in the final sprint in the PRO/1/2/3 to make his higher category début and finishes 7th in the 20 rider field.
Many racers commented on the strong showing under brutal conditions. Experienced racers were glad to see so many new faces in the category 5 and junior fields.
Spring
Training Tip #1, think of your ultimate racing performance as a pyramid.
The bottom or base is your ability to produce energy through fat metabolism
trained by longer rides below 130 or 140 heart rate. The middle of your
pyramid is your ability to produce mid-range tempo power by relying on
your limited stored carbohydrate supplies (glycogen). Solo tempo rides
between 20 to 75 minutes with pedaling cadences between 70 and 90 to develop
muscular endurance and force. Tempo rides are done between 150 and 160, all
heart rate measurements assume your max is between 190 and 200 beats per
minute.
A strong aerobic engine reduces your need to go anaerobic.
Train your performance pyramid one "layer" at a time. The key to racing at your highest level is to develop your aerobic engine so that you can produce sustainable power with minimal fatigue.
Alta Sport events are rain or shine, or snow.
El Gringo takes it to Midwestern boys after winning Yuma Arizona Crit and stage race the previous weekend.
Joe Abdallah enjoys the post race glow after his first ever Category 5 race!
The free warm-up tent and cyclops trainers courtesy of Cycle Works and Velotek Training were well received.
Free coffee hits the spot.
Allan Craddock and Steve Rouff in the PRO/1/2/3 sprint.
Propane heaters from Cottin's hardware helped keep the quads steaming.
Mojo X!
Wheatland's Jack Mason Cat 5 Phenom win's Cat 5 & 4/5 race. He also won the next days Perry Road Race.
 Category 4/5 Race |
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| 1st Jack Mason – Wheatland’s | ||||
| 2nd Chris Locke – Bikes and Boards | ||||
| 3rd Chris Hess – Kansas City Bicycle Club | ||||
| 4th Brian Roche – Team X Cycling.com | ||||
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| 6th Curtis Martell – Free State Cycling | ||||
| 7th Ashley O. – Wheatland’s | ||||
| 8th Joseph Erwin - unattached | ||||
| Category 5 Race | ||||
| 1st Jack Mason – Wheatland’s | ||||
| 2nd Dan Cool - unattached | ||||
| 3rd Jason Fife - unattached | ||||
| 4th Joseph Abdallah - Team Red Bull | ||||
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| 6th Troy Lang - Team Seaboard Pork | ||||
| 7th Frank Campbell - unattached | ||||
| 8th Michael Young - unattached | ||||
| Category Juniors | ||||
| 1st Adam Lang - Team X Cycling.com | ||||
| 2nd Garrick Valverde - Team X Cycling.com | ||||
| 3rd Ian Reynolds - Sante Fe Trail | ||||
| 4th Alison Lang - Team X Cycling.com | ||||
| Open Women | ||||
| 1st Tammy Spray - Free State Cycling | ||||
| 2nd Stacey Lamer - unattached | ||||
| 3rd Juli Watkins - KCBC | ||||
| 4th Marian Smith - Team Higher Education | ||||
| 5th Tera Cameron - Sante Fe Trail | ||||
| 6th Nikki Browning - unattached | ||||
| 7th Gretchen Timmons - unattached | ||||
| 8th Teri Chang - Sante Fe Trail | ||||
| Masters 30+ | ||||
| 1st Steve Rouff - Team X Cycling.com | ||||
| 2nd Shadd Smith - Bike Source | ||||
| 3rd Alan Craddock - RCRC | ||||
| 4th Chris Johnson - Bike Source | ||||
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| 6th Mike Vickers - Team X Cycling.com | ||||
| 7th Russell Tolle - RCRC | ||||
| * note who was the rider to finish 7th in the last lap sprint right next to Mike Vickers of Team X? | ||||
| Category Pro/1/2/3 | ||||
| 1st Alan Craddock - RCRC | ||||
| 2nd Bill Stotle - Bike Source | ||||
| 3rd Steve Rouff - Team X Cycling.com | ||||
| 4th Shadd Smith - Bike Source | ||||
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| 6th E. Peim - unattached | ||||
| 7th Andy Cocha - Team X Cycling.com | ||||
| 8th Kris Tilford - unattached | ||||
Steve Rouff, Bill Stolte and Allan Craddock the main animators of the Pro/1/2/3 race.
