Friday, June 19, 2009
dEVa Ride Sat June 20th
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Thursday Night Racing Ladies!
I will be leaving Main and Ontario at 515 at the latest. Claire TT'd me out to the race in time for last week!
Its a super fun course, flat and fast! And getting out there on time is not only a great warm up but part of the race for us Cat 4's!
oh and not that you need more convincing but you should know that it's been common to win bags of licorice for the prime. This is what last week's winner did with her prize.
Below is more info.
See you out there!
Liisa
Team Coastal is proud to present a criterium race series held every Thursday night from May through August. The races are centrally located in Richmond and offer great competition for all levels of competitive cyclists. The 1.8 km flat course will provide an excellent opportunity for up and coming racers to train and refine their racing skills.
Notification of Race Cancellation Please Note If it is raining the races will be cancelled for that evening. We will update the web site home page by about 4pm on race day if we decide to cancel. |
Wet roads are OK but we don't want our volunteers standing in the rain. Check the link below for current local weather... look for the Richmond area. Lots of color means lots of rain and the Thursday Night Challenge race is probably cancelled. Local Weather Radar
Download the form here. and waiver here
Click the map to the right to enlarge and view...
There will be races for each of the following categories:
- Senior Men A's
- Men B's
- Men C's
- Women
- Junior's U16
Team Coastal is putting up a minimum purse of $1000 to be won based on overall omnium points accumulated over the duration of the series. As well, Coastal's clothing sponsor, Giordana will be providing a special custom designed jerseys for the overall winners of each of the race categories.
The points will be distributed for each night's race as follows:
- 1st - 4 points
- 2nd -3 points
- 3rd - 2 points
- 4th -1 points
- 5th -1 points
Note, new times:
Sign on Starts at 5:45 pm with Cat C Men, & Women and juniors starting their race at 6:30 pm. Please bring your race licence when you register for the first time. Day of race licenses are available.
Team Coastal welcomes you all and looks forward to a fun, fast, and safe series of racing.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Westside Classic
Nice work Coach Howard! The dEVa's are proud of ya baby!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
this saturday
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Enumclaw race report # 1
For me, it was the first time I would really lay down the hammer on the TT bike I bought last summer (a bike with two national championships already on its resume) and an aero helmet I borrowed from a friend. I knew the bike liked to fly, but honestly most of the race is a blur corners, pain and a constant stream of both positive, but mostly negative thoughts. After telling myself to settle and find a rhythm the first few minutes, zooming past the girl in front of me, surviving the pop of a hill Gord said was half way (remembering that saved my race!), succumbing and overcoming a long moment of mental weakness before the last corner, I crossed the line annoyed knowing that I could have gone harder and still feeling pretty good on my gel infused sugar high (Ask the dEVas how hard I sugar crashed about 20 minutes later!).
I had no idea how I had done, since I had forgotten to look at my bike computer’s clock. As I walked up to see the finish times several hours later, Liisa’s high five and “way to rock it girl!” hinted that I had must have met my goal of finishing top 15.
In the end, I dug deep enough to finish 1st in the Women’s Cat 4 with a time of 16:10. Conquering their firsts and without the fancy aero machinery, Jen Brummit came it at 19:20, Monika Owczarek finished at 19:03, Jo Hallas crossed at 18:47, Liisa Ingimundson sailed in at 17:43, and our power house mentor/role model/coach/superstar Lisa Howard finished 8th in the womens 1 /2 with a time of 15:25. What a way to kick off the weekend!