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2010 Race Reports

 

 

Jason Miller's West Feliciana Classic 2010 Race Report

NOLA Lending Racing team waiting the start of the criterium in downtown St Francisville

Although the West Feliciana Classic Race in St Francisville, LA changed from a stage race to a points based omnium for its second year, the events would similar with a time trial, a criterium and a road race.  The time trial was shortened from 5 miles to 3 miles and this year flooding would not save us from racing on a very challenging downtown criterium course.  Mark and Ed would be competing with the Category 1,2,3 racers while Charlie, Jay, Jerry and me would be racing in the Master 40+ event.

The Saturday morning time trial course was in rolling hills but was mostly down.  Jerry won the event with a strong effort beating out Donald Davis by a second.  Charlie, me and Jay finished within a few seconds of each other in 5th, 6th and 7th place respectively.  As typical in an omnium, the points were more heavily skewed towards the criterium and road race events so everyone was still in play for the overall at the start of the afternoon criterium.  Ed finished 4th in the 1,2,3 time trail with a time a second behind Jerry while Mark's time was the same as the rest of us.

The criterium course had a 65' climb that was quite steep.  The downhill happened all at once at the other side of the course followed by a fairly sweeping turn which allowed you to carry quite a bit of speed.  If this was a stage race, this event would have likely determined the winner.  Races before us quickly broke up into small groups as the hill wore out riders.  We would also have some significant heat to deal with as well during our 45 minute race.  Our plan was to race aggressive and hope that it would force others in the omnium hunt to chase and tire.  (read the rest)

 

Jason Miller's Rouge Roubaix 2010 Race Report 

The Rouge Roubaix race has been the first race on the road calendar since I have been racing and for me it always leads to a dilemma.  The approximately 100 mile route with its three sections of gravel is one of the hardest around and the uniqueness of the race draws more riders from surrounding areas.  Most of my training is geared around races 60 miles or less which this definitely doesn't fit, but there is something "manly" about telling the uninitiated that you are racing a road bike over a hundred miles on sections of gravel roads.

This year they split out the Master's field from the "A" race with the Category 1-3's which was a plus.  That race is way over my head but Diego Ortiz doing his first race with the NOLA Lending Racing Team would more than hold his own and take second place in the Category 3 division.  The "B" race would include the Master 40+ and 50+ riders plus the Women and would start 15 minutes later at 8:15AM.  I was on the fence for the race.  I skipped it last year and kind of had some regrets.  I normally stay in decent shape but had many legitimate excuses lined up as to why I could skip again this year.  Both Mark Graffagnini and Jerry Simon were kind of on the fence as well.  Early in the week Jerry decided he would do it and I committed to do the same.  Mark ended up having to skip it due to family commitments. (read the full report)