Final track report
From: Dan Schueller
Date: Sep 20, 2007 4:19 PM
I haven’t reported on track racing for several weeks thinking you may
be tired of these reports. So this will be the last for the year. Last
Thursday was the final race night and I would have written earlier but I
have been in Prescott AZ these past six days riding some hills (190
miles worth) with a friend from High School.
On Sunday the 16th I did a race on a 54 mile loop popular with the
locals in Prescott. There were over 150 in this 3-year old race (it’s
an open race like the Wisport races) and I won it, breaking the course
record by 2 minutes. The course is 2 miles flat, a 5 mile climb, a 4
mile fast decent at 40-45mph, 28 rolling to flat miles, then a 10 mile
climb with a 5 mile fast downhill to the finish. On the first big
uphill 4 of us broke away. I then powered away up the final big hill
and flew down the last 5 miles with a max speed of 48mph. My left
hamstring cramped up bad with less than a mile to go but that was no
problem as I just stopped pedaling and coasted to the finish at 35mph.
Now that’s something you can’t do in MN. Here are top 15 results:
1 Dan Schueller 2:33
2 Bill Howard 2:41
3 Rick Cimagllia 2:41
4 Michael Gallivan 2:47
5 Anthony Howard 2:47
6 Jesse Rens 2:48
7 Doug McCord 2:55
8 Toby Jones 2:56 (H.S. friend)
9 Peter Rebiltz 2:56
10 Steve Masters 2:59
11 Brian Ross 2:59
12 Kent Keegan 3:01
13 Sam Wheeler 3:06
14 Denis Boswell 3:16
15 Brian Rens 3:16
At the track Thursday I was 2nd in the Cat3 Omnium, same as the prior
week. Three weeks ago I won the Cat3 Omnium for the first time which
was quite fun. There have been many fun races which I won’t go into
detail about (results on mcf.net) but I was thrilled to end the year 9th
in the TROY. My goal for the year, which I considered a real stretch
goal, was to get top 15 so I couldn’t be happier to make the top 10.
My top speed on the track this year was 38.2mph and the fastest longer
race (I don’t check average speed for shorter races) was last Thursday
night’s 60-lap scratch race with Cat 1,2,3s combined where we averaged
28.2mph. I won a $25 priem in this race and finished either 8th or 9th
(I was in the lead with 2 laps to go but got passed by many strong
sprinters near the end). It was a most excellent year and I hope
we’ll see more Gophers on the wood next year. Congratulations to
Sara for 4th in TROY, two rookie rodents getting in the top 10 was quite
exciting. If you are interested in the track class you can watch this
video taken during the class Rich took:
http://photo.twincities.com/index.php/2007/08/29/crashing-the-velodrome-video/