Thank You to East Coast Bicycles

I just wanted to say thank you to East Coast Bikes for their support over the last year.  When we were in need of a bike shop, they stepped up and really full filled our need.  They are also sponsoring the Cyclocross race we are holding in November.  Look them up the next time you need something.

2011 SLEEPY HOLE SMACKDOWN RACE RESULTS

SLEEPY HOLE SMACKDOWN RACE RESULTS
12-Mar-11
Men's Cat 5	1	Immeker	Dan	Tripower
	2	Guerra	Elias	Hilton Cycling Club
	3	Vann	Andrew	Celerity Cycling p/b Brooks Systems
	4	Tempest	Nicholas	TriPower
	5	Kent	Roland	Team Kainer Cycling
	6	Crandell	Eric	Fat Frogs Racing
	7	Stockdill		Hilton Cycling Club
	8	Burbey	Ryan
	9	Northup	Adam	Richmond Velo Sport
	10	Callam	Brian	College of William and Mary
	11	Clarke	Ryan	Richmond Velo Sport
	12	Baldwin	Michael	Tripower
	13	Sumrell	Kenneth	Fat Frogs Racing Team
	14	Reichelderfer	Jeff	Fat Frogs Racing
	15	Murray	Ben
	16	Clarke	Taylor	Team Whole Foods
	17	Kennedy	Samuel	Hilton Cycling Club
	18	Callery	Bryan	Christian Cycling / Hammer Nutrition
	19	Eanes	Sterling	Team Three Sports
	20	Bream	Anthony
Women Cat 4/40+	1	nicholson	Sharon	tripower
	2	winters	leslie	va asset
	3	Craddock	Glenda	Fat Frogs Racing
	4	Hill	Marci	Walt Racing
	5	McNelis	Mallory	Team Nature's Path/3Sports
	6	Schutz	Morgan	Fat Frogs Racing
	7	Schaefer	kristin	Rostello p/b Fiorucci/Cycor
	8	Leary	Sharon	Rostello p/b Fiorucci
	9	Fink	Julie	Fat Frogs Racing
	10	Hunter	Julie	VA Asset Group p/b Trek
	11	Peacock	Amy	Red Hammer Racing
	12	Wood	Denise	Red Hammer Racing
	13	Gonzales	Megan	Fat Frogs Racing
Women 1/2/3	1	joyner	emily	va asset
	2	Ingram	Ali	Vanderkitten Racing
	3	Cook	Laura	Vanderkitten Racing
	4	winters	leslie	va asset
	5	Pope	Jennifer	Vanderkitten Racing
	6	schmitz	avanell	va asset
	7	Macdonald	Brittany	Vanderkitten Racing
	8	Eichert	Amanda	Fat Frogs Racing
	9	Seymour	Jane	Fat Frogs Racing
	10	Craddock	Glenda	Fat Frogs Racing
Juniors 10-14	1	Clarke	Taylor	Team Whole Foods
	2	Carey	Thomas	Team Portsmouth
	3	Lloyd	Chris	Fat Frogs Racing
	4	mcnelis	mallory
	5	Dujua	Matthew	Richmond Velo Sport / 3Sports
	6	Brookfield	Grant	Richmond Velo Sport / 3 Sports
	7	Craddock	Dane	Fat Frogs Racing
	8	Fitzgerald	William	Hilton Cycling Club
	9	schaubach	Micah	Walt Racing
	10	Pounder	alastair	Raleigh Allstars
	11	Warner	Jacob	Team Natures Path
	12	Dujua	Leigh	Richmond Velo Sport / 3Sports
	13	FULTON	CASEY	FAT FROGS
	14	Horvath	Judy	Fat Frogs
	15	Carey	Christopher	Team Portsmouth
Juniors 15-18	1	King	Jake	hot tubes development
	2	Keeling	Chris	Miller School of Albemarle
	3	Brookfield	Parker	Richmond Velo Sport / 3 Sports
	4	Schaefer	Kristin	Rostello p/b Fiorucci/Cycor
	5	Clarke	Taylor	Team Whole Foods
Men's Cat 3	1	Mull	Stephen	Richmond Velo Sport
	2	Grosicki	Gregory	College of William and Mary
	3	Turner	terry	Hefler Performance Coaching/CBC
	4	Gray	John	Virginia Beach Wheelmen
	5	Netzer	Dan	Celerity Cycling p/b Brooks Systems
	6	Tamayo	Mike	Virginia Beach Wheelmen
	7	Harville	Lucas	Triangle Velo
	8	Schwartz	Dan	NCVC/UnitedHealthcare
	9	horvath	kevin	Fat Frogs Racing
	10	King	Jake	hot tubes development
	11	hunt	mitch	Fat Frogs Racing
	12	Cundiff	Frank	Celerity Cycling p/b Brooks Systems
	13	Pope	Timothy	Fat Frogs Racing
	14	Sheridan	Christian	CRC
	15	McNelis	Edward	Richmond Velo Sport
	16	Goyet	Joshua	Virginia Beach Wheelmen
	17	yengling	michael	Richmond Velo Sport
	18	deaton	jimmy	Team Tripower
	19	Blend	Nick	Richmond Velo Sport
	20	Marques	Joseph	Charlottesville Racing Club
	21	Pope	Jennifer	Vanderkitten Racing
	22	Glasscock	Robson	Carytown Bicycle Company
	23	Cook	Laura	Vanderkitten Racing
	24	Ingram	Ali	Vanderkitten Racing
	25	Macdonald	Brittany	Vanderkitten Racing
Men's Cat 4	1	Hoy	Bryan	JRVS/American Pride Auto
	2	Keeling	Christofer	Miller School of Albemarle p/b CBC
	3	Kyle	Charles	Freshbikes p/b SKANSKA
	4	Dujua	Oliver	Richmond Velo Sport / 3Sports
	5	Hale	Wilson	JRVS/American Pride
	6	Levesque	Rick	Richmond Velo Sport
	7	Clevinger	Noah	JRVS/American Pride
	8	Younkin	Joe	Southside Tri & Cycle
	9	Hadley	Jerry	Tripower
	10	Smith	Brandon	VCU Cycling
	11	Mitchel	Brian	Richmond Velo Sport
	12	Hendricks	Steven	Fat Frogs Racing
	13	Magnussen	David
	14	Baumgartner	Ed	Richmond Velo Sport
	15	Skinner	Ron	Hilton Cycling Club
	16	Kunz	Brian	JRVS/American Pride
	17	Benjamin	Steve	Richmond Velo Sport
	18	Zarate	Jorge	fat frogs racing team
	19	Altomare	Joe	Hilton Cycling Club p/b Walt Racing
	20	bozarth	anthony	hilton cycling club
	21	Iannuzzi	Mark	JRVS/American Pride
	22	Wang	Junjie	Team Tripower
	23	Poteat	Ivan	Carytown Bicycle Company
	24	Marks	arthur	TriPower
	25	nalls	jeffrey	BikeWorks Racing
	26	Brookfield	Tom	Richmond Velo Sport / 3 Sports
	27	Moore	Andrew	William and Mary Cycling Team
	28	Kidd	Vince	JRVS/American Pride
Men Pro 1/2/3	1	king	daniel	CRC/Wired Bike.com
	2	carithers	sean	team whole foods
	3	Scanlon	Bill	CRC p/b Wired Bike
	4	king	mark	CRC
	5	Fabiato	Francois	3sports/RVS
	6	greco	marc	tripower
	7	Custer	Pete	North Tek-Aria
	8	huss	terry	raleigh all stars
	9	Clarke	David	Team Whole Foods
	10	Kendall	Steven	Kelly Benefit Strategies / LSV
	11	Evans	William	BikeWorks Racing
	12	Craft	Daniel	Fat Frogs Racing
	13	Mull	Stephen	Richmond Velo Sport
	14	ward	paul	atlantic velo
	15	Warner	Mark	CRC/Tridim
	16	warren	ben
	17	mullins	timothy	team whole foods
	18	Schaefer	James	Rostello p/b Fiorucci/Cycor
	19	Hosang	Michael	Tripower
	20	Winck	Adam	CRC
Master 40+/50+/60+	1	Clarke	David	Team Whole Foods
	2	king	mark	CRC
	3	Warner	Mark	CRC/Tridim
	4	king	daniel	CRC/Wired Bike.com
	5	mullins	timothy	Team Whole Foods
	6	Fabiato	Francois	3sports/RVS
	7	Schaefer	James	Rostello p/b Fiorucci/Cycor
	8	Scanlon	Bill	CRC p/b Wired Bike
	9	ward	harlan	atlantic velo
	10	King	Wesley	Richmond Velo Sport
	11	Marks	arthur	TriPower
	12	Netsch	Robert	TriPower
	13	Fletcher	Eric	CRC/Wired Bike
	14	McNelis	Edward	Richmond Velo Sport
	15	Blend	Nick	Richmond Velo Sport
	16	nalls	jeffrey	BikeWorks Racing
	17	sheridan	christian	CRC
	18	brown	greg
	19	Bond	William	Fat Frogs Racing
	20	Fitzgerald II	Thomas	Hilton Cycling Club

Snowball Crit #1 February 20, 2011

The racing season is underway.  In Virginia the season has started with the Snowball training series for the past 14 years.  Although this is a training race, riders don't treat it like that.  Nerves are high and anticipation is great.  Sometimes it could set the tone for the season.  It is a great place to gain some confidence for the year, but it is also a place you could lose all you worked for.  A high place or an aggressive showing with validate your winter training.  A fall or crash could easily get in your head and cause unnecessary nerves for the remainder of the season.

The Virginia Beach Wheelmen had something to prove:
The Virginia Beach Wheelmen (VBW) really came together as a team this winter.  We have also considered ourselves a team and not a club, but we are still amateurs with life that tends to get in the way.  In the past we have had a few racers stay focus all year while others allow silly things like new babies, new homes, weddings, new jobs and opening new businesses to get in the way of cycling (I know crazy isn't it?)  This year it looked like it was all coming together.

• Mike Tamayo decided cold or not, there was nothing to keep him off the bike this season.  He religiously followed a winter training program I provided to him.  
• John Gray got very motivated early.  He took the CX season to take time off the bike.  I coached him with weekly plans, strength and cross training.  I have never seen him ride so well.  
• Tim Shockley opened up his Shockley Sweet Shoppe store at the beginning of the year.  This actually allowed him to quit his landscaping job and concentrate solely on his business.  This change in duel concentration has allowed him to get in a good solid month of training and the promise of more miles to come.  Tim was quickly riding himself back into top form.
• Zach Kyler has done his best to follow the training plan provided for him by me.  He, however has battled the flu throughout the winter, especially last month.  This illness has kept him from being consistent.  He is a strong and motivated racer and it will not take him long to regain his form.
• Jon Nisbet, currently our only Cat 2 racer, has been busy with work and a new baby.  Anyone who saw him during CX season knows that it doesn't take much for him to regain form.  Jon is a natural talent and will get hungry for racing again.
• Then there is me.  As the coach of the team I am just as concerned with everyone's form as I am with my own.  I am exactly where I wanted to be.  I put in a lot of time and feel I need to just work on race speed and I will be right there.  That is what the early races are all about.

That is the VBW racing team.  We worked hard this winter and feel like we deserve success.

CAT 3/4 Race
All of us with the exception of Jon Nisbet lined up for the 3/4 race.  We had our new, bright green helmets which received a lot of attention.  We were ready.  The plan:  Have at least two riders at all times at the front.  Make sure nothing escaped without us.  We would rotate the riders through taking turns to cover.  More importantly though, test out our legs by making some attacks of our own.  Use this as a training race and see what we could do.  If at the end it was a group sprint, we would form a leadout and try to get at least 2 racers in the top 5.

Everything went as planned except that Zach ended up getting dropped.  That was okay, he didn't quit and continued to use the race as another step to getting his fitness back.  The team was all very pleased to see him stay in.  Mike and John did the majority of the work with attacks and chases.  At all times you could see the aggressiveness of the bright green Rudy Project helmets.  Tim and I both did a fair amount of work covering attacks, making attacks and just creating an aggressive presence in the pack.  With just a few laps to go we started to get into position to create a leadout.  Coming up to the bell lap, Mike, John and myself were right near each other with Tim just behind us.  Then the crash happened.  It separated the field.  Mike barely managed to stay up and it really took him out.  John wasn't prepared at this time for a big sprint because he had just launched an attack.  Tim was a little too far back and got separated.  I kicked it, yelled to John to get on my wheel.  He said "keep it going".  In other words he couldn't get on.  I couldn't slow if I had any chance on catching the lead.  So I kept going hard and caught the group just before the second turn.  As we rounded the turn I gunned it again to pass the line and I got on the wheel of the two riders creating the leadout.  The big effort left very little in my legs for a sprint and I ended up with 4th place.  Not bad, but we had hoped for better.  The other guys finished well, at least no one went down with the crash.

CAT 1/2/3
All of the VBW racers with the exception of Zach decided to double up.  What a great way to get speed in your legs.  Jon Nisbet didn't race at all because he was battling an illness.  The race started with the idea that we were going to sit in and survive.  The problem is that we are bike racers and a lot of times finishing in a pack with a large break up the road is not surviving.  Once again we did our fair share of work with Mike and John pulling the most weight for the team.  A four man break did get up the road and there was a lot of effort to catch them for a while.  As far as us, Tim was the first to go.  He got some good speed in his legs and some great training but it was a little too much for the miles he had under his belt.  I was the next one.  This actually surprised me.  At no point during this race did I think I was going to drop.  With about 14 laps to go, just before turn number 2, my legs cramped.  It was a sudden cramp, both legs, quads, hamstrings and calves.  I actually almost lost control of my bike.  Luckily I was on the outside and was able to go outside the cones and just go straight.  I couldn't pedal and I couldn't sit down.  It took a long time to go away.  That had never happened that bad before.  Mike was next.  With fewer than 5 laps to go his legs started to cramp and he couldn't work them out.  John did very well and stayed in for the final sprint.

I am very excited about how the team did.  It makes for a very promising season.

2011 Sleepy Hole Smackdown

Register on Bike Reg: Click Here 

2011 SLEEPYHOLE SMACKDOWN

PRESENTED BY   The Virginia Beach Wheelmen   and City of Suffolk Parks and Recs           

at SLEEPY HOLE PARK IN SUFFOLK, VA on March 12, 2011

PART OF THE VIRGINIA CYCLING ASSOCIATION BAR

Held under USA Cycling Permit, Pending

CATEGORY	TIME	FIELD LIMT	DISTANCE	PRIZE VALUE/ PLACES	FEE
CAT 5	8:00	40	30 minutes	Pride	$20
Women CAT 4 / 40+	8:45	40	30 minutes	$100/3	$20
Women 1/2/3	9:30	50	40 minutes	$150/3	$20
Junior 10-14	10:20	40	15 minutes	Trophies/3	$10
Junior 15-18	10:45	40	30 minutes	Trophies/3	$10
CAT 3	11:30	60	45 minutes	$300/5	$25
Kid’s Race	12:30		1 lap	Ribbons	$0
CAT 4	12:45	50	40 minutes	$200/4	$25
Pro/1/2/3	1:45	60	60 minutes	$499/5	$25
Masters 40+/50+/60+	3:00	50	45 minutes	$150/3	$20

WANT TO RACE TWICE?  SECOND RACE $10 OFF. (ALL JUNIORS JUST $10 REGARDLESS OF RACE ENTERNED)

Entry fee includes a $3.00 USAC Insurance fee and $1 BAR fee.  All entrants must have a current USCF license or must purchase a One-day license at registration.  Riders under 18 requires a parent’s signature to race.  All USAC rules apply.  On line registration is available on BikeReg .  BikeReg Service fee will be charged for online registration. Race day registration will be available for a $5 late fee.  (no late fee for Juniors, Women and CAT 5)..Helmets are required for all races; no aero bars.

Course Description:  Flat, fast 0.5 mile loop with two 90-degree bends and two nice left sweepers.  Bring the family, plenty of room for kids to play.

Directions:  Google Map or GPS address is 4700 Sleepy Hole Rd, Suffolk VA 23435 (Sleepy Hole Park).

Parking will be available in designated parking areas.  Please do not park on the road leading to the course.

For additional information contact: Joshua Goyet at (757) 515-5940, Email:  vbwheelmen@cox.net