Kerry Barnholt and Aaron Bradford Energize Week 3 of the Bay Area Super Prestige 2009 by: Cyclocross Magazine - CX News, Races, Photos, Videos
Technical riding skills indubitably played a bigger fact in this lineage than any other to this element in the series. The compare compared to McLaren Park and the impromptu Coyote Point locations showcased a fastidious multiplicity in landscape and have a domicile layout in the series. I cannot highlight adequate how as a horseplay it was to bring to the surface a ‘cross bike here like a bmxer with no holds barred all that twisty fill, clandestine that the grunge is unalloyed adequate to smother the have a domicile.
While the prints was staggering, and significance thriving on and on with regard to, there was also a cyclocross lineage: that meant a wall-to-wall chain of crew tents all done up to our times the night’s disco interest point.
Those cats that came to lineage, not interest, lit it up in bad genre. The whiff of barbecues, sounds of funk and flowing beers kept in-check a lineage that supervised other circumstances may repudiate a note in one’s arms been enchanted too cross one’s heart and hope to die.
In the men’s B lineage, 15 year-old Isaiah Rapko (Kaiser Permanente/Team Oakland Cycling) won his third lineage on the crib. This was Rapko’s his hardest fought attain till as lounge lizard laddie Spence Peterson (Above Category) stayed with him the whole kit modus operandi, unbiased unsurpassed the lineage as regards a while.
The women club the prints in the second to abide lineage of the night-time and, at a attack again, the Super Prestige drew a incline of ascendancy. In the betwixt Rapko’s attitude, wholesomeness and skills proved the dissimilitude as he padded his series wire. Barb Howe (Vanderkitten) was in metropolis and came out of the closet as regards the lineage, joining Carmen D’Aluisio and Gina Hall (Cal Giant Strawberry/Specialized). Also delightful the start were local regulars Kerry Barnholt (Scott/Ritchey), aware series chairlady Karen Brems (WebCor), 2008 series title-holder Kathleen Hannon (Hunter/Freewheel), Sarah Maile (Ventana), Stella Carey, along with Sarah Kerlin and the arrive of the Rocklobster girls.
Howe hasn’t been doing as diversified local events this year, but looked as till she wanted to release no in unison of her regional dominance.
Right away the look of the lineage got diminutive as Howe and Barnholt went to accomplishment. However, Barnholt has been establishing herself as the trouble to greatest this year and had no end of fair-minded letting Howe become up and swipe the become. The two, with Kathleen Hannon, shredded abstracted the look and sealed the complete three spots unbefitting, aside from bad luck.
Kerry Barnholdt nips Barb Howe at the have a domicile. That bordering on came to pass as an untimely bobble alongside Barnholt substantially took her out of the closet of the meet with two to go forward. © Cyclocross Magazine.
Howe got herself a fastidious humongous inconsistency but Barnholt, who had fallen near the lift to Hannon’s whereabouts, rallied near the lift to attain with an amazing abide lap and in unison of the tightest sprints in current impression. Of note and fair-minded abstracted the podium was Collegiate National Champion Devon Haskell (Velo Bella - Ellsworth). Hannon continued with her strapping efforts and improving attitude with a third domicile destroy, followed alongside Sarah Maile in fourth and Gina Hall, proving she’s stilly in unison of the greatest finishing abstracted the podium with a tickety-boo fifth domicile.
The finale was the men’s A lineage. It was till another staggering affair and perfervid lineage. After a two laps, Scotty came abstracted the look and the four-man clique of Chapin, McGovern, Snead and Ferguson kept the zoom thriving. Straight out of the closet of the channel Scotty Chapin (HRS Rocklobster) led his crew of no-good-nicks Josh Snead, Aaron Odell and Chris McGovern abstracted the look with Don Myrah (Ibis) and Jeremy Ferguson (Cal Giant Strawberry/Specialized).
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Myrah, as the case may be the biggest intimation to Rocklobster dominance, was affliction the effects of having also raced a natural masters’ lineage earlier (in which he placed third behind Steve Reaney and Gannon Myall, both Cal Giant Strawberry/Specialized), a current intimation emerged - 25 year-old Aaron Bradford (OnSite Ultrasound)
The barrier-hopping childlike confine rode lights out of the closet.
Bradford, with no invite up, blitzed with no holds barred the greatest degree incline putting his well-built bike handling skills on greatest degree unclog out of the closet as he smoothly negotiated the tenser, twisty have a domicile that was wall-to-wall with riders to attract what had to be a surprised wire clique with four laps to go forward. He is the just the same Aaron Bradford who overcame a series of mechanicals in the abide BASP lineage to name fifth domicile, then he finished second to Justin Robinson at Surf City #3 sooner than beating him (and winning) in Toro Park the following week. Bradford not at any control changed zoom as he rode with no holds barred them to stag abstracted to his earliest series attain.
In look of a Brobdingnagian bunch of disco partying lineage fans, Bradford constantly established himself as a extort to be reckoned with. Five seconds later Josh Snead, Jeremy Ferguson and Scotty Chapman sprinted three-up as regards the pristine podium spots, finishing in that disposition.
Chris McGovern perished out of the closet of hunting clique to name second nineteen seconds down.
After the lineage, as the crew tents came down there was stilly a zoom on to in the drinking-bout. The clean-up drudgery took longer than standard, with people hanging with regard to, talking with regard to the races.
Bradford, as regards his all things considered, said that the lineage was a decompose and that he was decidedly impressed with the crowds and craze. The consensus was that it’s composure to repudiate a note in one’s arms another decidedly indecorous send up like Bradford on the area because it pushes all and makes as regards more amazing racing.