get your crit on
my little universe August 24th, 2007
so maybe you know maybe you don’t, last week was rough. that is to say it started fine and ended like a prom date gone horribly wrong. and being in a world where “your only as good as your last performance” i wasn’t too happy with myself. fast forward to a few hours ago. The Healthnet Portland twilight Criterium. Healthnet shows up with a full team of 4, O’bee, murphy, dougie O, and roman- the other who’s who was Evan Elkin, jonny sundt, tree farm, morgan schmit and myself. not to leave out the local heros but… it started well with Trebon and sundt “getting ready for cross season”. GAY. what a ridiculous start did do was split a group of 15 or so off the front of one of the most technical courses i’ve ever seen. .5 mile with 6 turns. i heard a quick lap was 54 seconds- but i’m sure we did faster. in the end Murphy went off the front and soloed in, Doug attacked on the last lap, and I brought home the field sprint. Doug had about 10 lengths through the last corner and held on by a wheel. so the point is I’m happy again. yey
i was going to draw in o’bee on the side all bummed out but left it out cause i don’t really know him (and H-net went one-two). but either way its nice to beat the newly crowned national champion. not at all meaning to rub it in…but he’s got a big target on himself again, and i have a lot of respect for him, so sorry if i take a little pride in it- he always “one to beat” (i think he got 4th). and last year they went one-two-three-four….so.
ok thats it for now…. i have other stuff but that will have to wait.
results…
1 Murphy, John HealthNet
2 Ollerenshaw, Doug HealthNet
3 Hartley, Chad BMC
4 O’Bee, Kirk HealthNet
5 Hamilton, Chris Casa Bruno
6 Sundt, Johnny Kelly Benefit
7 Johnson, Aaron
8 Beardsley, Steven CMG
9 Leonard, John Casa Bruno
10 Kilun, Roman HealthNet
11 Hosmer, Seth CMG
12 Elken, Evan Jittery Joes
13 Gallagher, Michael Bob’s Bicycle
14 Schmitt, Morgan Priority Health
15 Reeb, Donald CMG
16 Buchholz, Brant Therapeutic Associates
17 Trebon, Ryan Kona
18 Tuckerman, Aaron Team Rubicon
19 Micek, Edward Dent Wizard
20 Torgenson, Chris Excel Sports
thanks k-man. bold type are local rider.
August 25th, 2007 at 3:14 am
are those zits or freckles on murphkids face? im sure ob1 isn’t that upset since he’s won almost everything the last 2 months!
i want this darn cartoon thing for my blog…
August 25th, 2007 at 6:43 am
You are a funny man and a damn fine artist. Well done but maybe next time w/ a little help and a lead out you’d move up a step or two?!?
August 25th, 2007 at 8:32 am
yeah, big murph is a ginger kid. if you don’t know what that is you should do more research on Southpark. red hair and freckles is an epidemic….and a little creepy. ok not really…
August 25th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
hey. for all of your fans out there remind us again when you’ve been “hot” this year. as a pro, is 3rd in a local crit something you put at the top of your resume?
August 25th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
um yeah, he suffers from gingervitis… but it ain’t slowing him down.
August 25th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
well boulder fan…maybe you missed the lop sidedness of my hot/cold graph- i thought it was rather apparent i had NOT been hot. and no i don’t put 3rd in local races on top of the resume…unless the have over $10,000 in prize money. how many of those are there in boulder? keep winning beer at stazio!!
August 28th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Being “official” sponsors of Doug Ollerenshaw, we couldn’t make a big pink banner for you, but rest assured we screamed & cheered for you plenty. It was really something to see both of you make the podium this year. Great racing!
- Josh / team ironclad crash dummy
September 9th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
oh snap! stazio!