Mt Hood Classic Post Race
by Fred Marx on Jun 8, 2010 11:50 AM EDT
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Every race needs a wrap up. Every winner needs a podium shot. Others find family. This is Paul Mach and the Mach Clan post race on Sunday (sorry Dad, I honestly missed you there..). Paul rode a conservative race on Sunday respecting the poor weather and slippery road conditions. Paul, winner ofthe 2009 edition of the race said he enjoyed the race, and granted that UHC had brought the stronger team to Mt Hood this year.
Usually the podium is a fairly restrained affair, riders accept the honors with dignity and decorum. Mt Hood, Indie Hops and Full Sail handed the GC podium loaded weapons and Mike Creed (Team Type 1) put his to good use.
Chasing Third Placed Nathaniel English (Eschelon/Z Team)from his rightful spot.
Not to be out done, Marc de Maar (UHC) hosed down Creed and a couple members of the gallery.
In the end Mike got his, courtesy of Nate English. Asked for his impressions, Mike expressed his praise for Break Away Productions for the overall handling of the event, the well designed stage routes, and added that aside form Sunday we'd been with the weather.
When asked about Saturdays attack from 20 km out, Nate English, who had been active in the Mt Adams break away, said he had seen some weakness in UHC during the course of the Wy'East Road Race and thought he could make a up some time, and possibly land a podium spot. He allowed that, yes it was a difficult effort, and he put it all on the line. He felt the dynamic in the three man break might have been better, but in the end the stronger man, Jonathan McCarty took the win. His effort paid, in the third place overall, but he felt that another 20-30 seconds would have made all the difference.
Marc de Maar for his part was happy to win his first North American Stage race. Coming off illness following the Tour of California, he said he had a rough first two days. He was pleased to see that young Morgan Schmitt had the chance to wear the leaders jersey. When Schmitt incurred the 20 second penalty for drafting, the team took it all in stride. De Maar said the jersey changed hands withing the team easily as he was probably the stronger rider. He finished third on the Mt Adams Road Race, and fourth on the day at Wy'East.
That concludes the Mt Hood Cycling Classic for 2010.
Filed: Park City Utah by Christopher See for Podiumcafe.com
All images copyright Christopher See used with permission.
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.. bows ... exits stage center
into the orchestra pit.
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Awesome pics...good work
Only complaint I have about this race is they should try to get a calendar date not during Philly week and Tulsa
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
Agreed...
…way too many races happening at the same time in a sport that’s already small and segmented.
By the way – who needs race radios or even a team to get on the podium? Apparently not Mike Creed.
by Chief Commissaire on Jun 8, 2010 12:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Nor English..
Mike rode about as smart a race as I’ve seen. Always in the top 15 places. UHC or Bissel driving? MIke was always the next guy in the train. He was also the one who I understand went tot he front on stage 4 after English went with McCarty to limit the damage as UHC was nearly cooked from controlling all day. It was interesting to see how the guys who were there with out teams faired. Creed, English and McCarty all did well by racing smart. The real test was when Morgan Schmitt flatted, and got a bad neutral change. Meanwhile Fraser and the mechanic were changing a flat, on the team, car. My moto was sent to comm 1 to notify her of the problem so UHC could get neutral support if they needed it. By the tie we rolled passes the front UHC and Bissel were on the front, sitting up while the chaos sorted itself out. Radio’s? We don’t need no steenkin radios….
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USAC Pay Attention...
to domestic racing? In the last 10 years their brand of benign neglect has only gotten stronger.
USAC is the UCI’s cuckhold, so local racing is unimportant. That’s why there’s Philly, ToC and then the unwashed masses of race organizers. It looks to me like the idea is to export UCI Continental racing and drive out all the local racing.
If the goal of the USAC is to worship Lance Armstrong, and neglect domestic racing, then they’ve done a wonderful job. I wonder why most of the racing population hasn’t left for the OBRA or Triathalons.
OBRA, if you are referring to the Oregon Bike Racing Association
IS seriously on the ball. I spent the week working around them, they have organizers and volunteers lined up and waiting it seems. The other moto pilot at Mt Hood is a top ’cross organizer, course designer, and racer. It seemed like most all of them were from all over the state and many of them wear more than one hat.
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Re: calendar, THe promoter is very active in Oregon and the west. There may be very little wiggle room on scheduling this race.
They have Cascade Classic in 4 weeks, and Nationals right behind, followed by Tour Of Utah in mid August. It is too bad that it conflicts, but many of the guys that would go to Philly aren’t gonna want to haul their butts up and down mountains fro 6 days. Tulsa? give me Oregon over Oklahoma any day. What this race needs is to regain it’s NRC status.
The worst scheduling block I see is the women are trapped on the east coast for weeks this time of year. There is only one race out this way for elite women all summer and that’s Cascade.
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ahh see i didn't know they lost NRC status...that would change it.
Actually the guys in Philly weren’t just sprinters and there was guys who could win the race there. Tulsa had NRC status, at least for sunday, but it is a really cool race on hard courses. If they found extra money for this somehow so they could move it a couple of weeks so that guys could do Philly, come here and do Mt. Hood, Cascade, BC Superweek is after that I believe and then do a couple other races before Utah.
The women just need some support/money… I am sick of them being stuck doing criteriums all the time instead of long road races/stage races.
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will not argue this:
The women just need some support/money… I am sick of them being stuck doing criteriums all the time instead of long road races/stage races.
Mt Hood is a good opportunity to see that. Unfortunately, there was a woman’s NRC race two weekends ago, LIberty Classic, and another NRC this coming weekend. All on the east coast. Without an NRC race in the west till Cascade, I see little hope that this might change. I was hoping to see a woman’s field for Manhattan beach, and Boise but neither have any status for the women. Again I think there is some conflicting event back east.
I realize that Philly is not a sprinters races by any means. Neither is 10,500 feet of climbing in a 92 mile stage. The woman’s stage was 71 miles and 8500’ as they dropped the first 2000’ climb. Total climbing for the men was nearly 20,000 feet for the week.
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Podium + alcohol = good times
Thanks for all the race posts and pics
I saw Team Type 1 practice on Lookout Mtn. yesterday(just outside of Golden)
maybe it was their developmental team but it was pretty cool. Had a car in front, then 10 or so riders, and a car behind with the team logo on it. They were practicing their downhill while I was practicing my uphill car cruising…
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Jelly Belly is in the area too I read somewhere.
What’s coming up in Colorado?
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Not sure if anything is coming up in CO
I don’t keep track of the American continental scene that much, they may just have several riders who live in the area and got together for some training. But maybe there is a race coming up, have to check their schedule.
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