San Dimas TT
Posted on March 29, 2008
Quick note on the results.
I honestly don’t know what to say, but one thing seems to be consistent overall and that is that the times keep getting faster and faster over the years.
It’s so sad that to place well you have to ride so fast. Top 5 placing’ times are just disgustingly fast.
I think if I had done it I would have placed 80th. That time sounds about right to me.
I think the most impressive time of the day goes to Tom Zirbell. How can a 200lb guy go up the road THAT fast…fawk…
Well, good luck out there today.
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Ahh yes, the annual SC Velo and San Dimas Hotel Charity ride. I hear that this year (after protests and confusion last year) they actually stuck to the 5% cut and took ~30% of the paying folks out of the crit. Good way to make a bad crit course safe, have 70 instead of 100 (FYI, when I rode it, there were two sections where fencing narrows to one lane and there are active traffic lanes on the other side).
I wonder how many hotels were left with empty-but-paid-for rooms after Saturday’s slug fest. What excuse do these morons have for cutting so many people? The year I rode this race, there were spectators riding the road race course with children in trailers, in the same direction and at the same time as the P/1! So…why do they have to get people off the course? It’s open to freakin’ traffic! I also hear that they were in such a hurry to stage the last wave (after normal delays–for this race) that some of the women who might have finished couldn’t cross the line!
The only good news–Rock Racing got punished by Symmetrics….
Jan–you made the right call. I wish I’d gone with you instead of sitting on my arse. I think an organized emigration to the Tuscon race is called for from here forward.