Redlands: Time Trial
The 24th edition of the Redlands Bicycle Classic starts with the traditional SUN time trial Thursday. As Lyne mentioned earlier, this is the first NRC race of the year for the men.
I figured I would start a thread to post predictions. Anyone seen any start times?
If you missed it Wednesday, the race website had live interviews with riders and directors (men AND women!). Some of them are archived here. More live coverage is planned for each day of the race.
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oh my that tt
so it starts up a quick little hill then you get rollin quick. that only lasts a minute or so then you make a right turn to a mandatory little ring hill (at least for mortals). you come over the top of that, down a fast descent to a tight lefty, and then it's on to a long climb.
the thing with this climb is that it doesn't count as a climb. everyone calls it a false flat. yeah, it's a false flat only compared to what's in store for the last mile.
a 23 is not a happy gear for this final mile.
you cross over the highway and you can see the finish a mile away along the interstate, but well above it. the road tilts up at some wicked awkward angle and it's a hard, mean slog from there...until you make another left turn and it gets even steeper for another couple hundred meters.
after that final rise, you've got another minute or so, that's not nearly as bad, but it's going to be a ball buster.
i mean, every tt is hard, but this one is set up to where if you go a fraction too hard over the first 2 miles, you're going to fall to pieces on the hard part and lose a couple of days. ha.
joy.
by jered on Apr 2, 2008 9:13 PM EDT 0 recs
Good god!
Very cool that they have live video. Respect.
by Chris... on Apr 2, 2008 11:26 PM EDT 0 recs
Ah, but where's the live video?
Damn, my one day off in forever, the wife is running errands, and I even sneak away from the honey-do list to watch a good race, but nada.
Uh, except for the TT in the 3 Days of De Panne....
by Cyclingrush on Apr 3, 2008 11:33 AM EDT 0 recs
What Time Zone Are You In?
by Chief Commissaire on Apr 3, 2008 11:42 AM EDT 0 recs
Damnit
I guess I should tune in around 1410....
But the live video is showing an empty TT start house.
by Cyclingrush on
Apr 3, 2008 12:07 PM EDT
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yep
by jered on Apr 3, 2008 2:15 PM EDT 0 recs
Slipstream
Peter Stetina 12:30
Walker Savidge 12:43
Kirk Carlsen 12:56
Blake Caldwell 13:09
Danny Summerhill 13:22
Tom Danielson 13:35
by Christopher on
Apr 3, 2008 3:02 PM EDT
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Danielson
by nikki on
Apr 3, 2008 3:06 PM EDT
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Gonna be so busted
by nikki on
Apr 3, 2008 3:38 PM EDT
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Its about 3PM EST
by roadside on Apr 3, 2008 3:04 PM EDT 0 recs
Mara Abbot
by Christopher on Apr 3, 2008 3:11 PM EDT 0 recs
What color are Time's jerseys?
Unless Chris has an agreement that he can wear his VS Yellow Jersey in NRC races...
by Christopher on Apr 3, 2008 3:15 PM EDT 0 recs
Jered
by australopithecine on Apr 3, 2008 4:02 PM EDT 0 recs
So Zirbel
by Drew on Apr 3, 2008 4:19 PM EDT 0 recs
Hopefully
by australopithecine on
Apr 3, 2008 4:32 PM EDT
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Tenative Top Eight
Ben Day 9:53,
Dominique Rollin 10:00,
Oscarlito
Ben Jaques-Maynes,
Chris Wherry,
Justin England
Stetna
by Christopher on Apr 3, 2008 5:05 PM EDT 0 recs
Good for Rory!
by nikki on
Apr 3, 2008 5:10 PM EDT
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ha!
It was pretty awesome.
There were people along the course and they cheered for me. That was sweet.
Ben Jacques-Maynes started 30 seconds behind me...yeah...that was funny.
I turned around to him before the start and introduced myself and said, hi, my name's Jered, I interviewed you on PEZ a little while back. It was funny.
He caught me of course, but I held out for a good while. It took him 6 minutes to catch me. I think I stayed within a minute of him in the end and I'm very pleased with that...I had absolutely nothing aero on...he was FULL on TTd out, and so was everybody that was fast, so I think it made for a worthwhile gain to be in full on TT mode.
Again, I've been doing these TTs just trying to compete against my powermeter, and everytime I do one, I destroy a previous personal best, so it's getting better...slowly. Someday I might even try a TT bike and such...oooooh!
by jered on
Apr 3, 2008 6:16 PM EDT
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Aero...
by Chris... on
Apr 3, 2008 6:59 PM EDT
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Still waiting for full results
by lyne on Apr 3, 2008 6:47 PM EDT 0 recs
And there was I
by Monty. on
Apr 3, 2008 7:48 PM EDT
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Don't compromise
by Monty. on
Apr 3, 2008 8:21 PM EDT
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skin suit?
by nikki on
Apr 3, 2008 9:09 PM EDT
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hey that's me!
as the announcer read off my measly list of accomplishments, i realized that there were people WATCHING me, and that i was at a huge race, and i thought how ridiculous that this all was. there were people taking pictures of me. me. how funny is that?
i almost made the top half today! that woulda been cool. i almost almost almost beat my teammate tom soladay, that's all i really cared about. he got me by one lousy second. he had aero bars though.
by jered on
Apr 3, 2008 11:23 PM EDT
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Dude
Good luck the rest of the race and check in when you can. Oh, nice work as well on your Flanders review at Pez.
by Drew on
Apr 4, 2008 8:53 AM EDT
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Cam Evans of Symmetrics
by guidemd on Apr 4, 2008 12:31 AM EDT 0 recs
no one knows
by jered on Apr 4, 2008 12:52 AM EDT 0 recs
Jered's site is redone!
http://jeredgruber.com/site/
by nikki on Apr 4, 2008 3:36 PM EDT 0 recs













