Snake Alley 2012

After a 2 year hiatus from this momentous race-  Twisted Spokes racer John Adamson has more than outdone himself with a spectacular day of racing. Also Tom Klenske; Alijah Beatty and Kat Porter put it out there for the Twisted Spokes.  More pictures and results to come.  For the time being - here is a little something.

And the 50+&60+ are off.  Some fine fast and strong racers.  Take your choice.

Tom digging hard just to get TO the start of the Snake.  Nice work! Great to see his support crew of Tad and Dillon too!

A shot of the Snake - with our Twisted Spokes guys working it.

Well done to all  - especially - Alijah racing to 2nd in her field; and John also 2nd in his cat.  Tom Klenske was  right in the mix for his 'Race' of the season(??). And For the Kat - she finished - just barely - and many thanks to all the support. What a great hard race!  Stay tuned for more.  Thanks for stopping by.

WATERWORKS

TWISTED SPOKES headed to the famed Waterworks Park Crit last Saturday the 12th of May - hosted by Zealous Racing. A top notch event and glad to have it back after an hiatus. If you like it fast and flat - this the race for you.  The 1.5ish mile course is smooth and fast with just a couple of turns to navigate.  The wind made for some interesting attack points so you had to be Ready.

The Team's Great Junior Racer - Leaf Lujan from West Union, IA has been having a stellar spring racing with 1st place podium finishes consistently. Will look forward to seeing him at the Memorial Day Races.

Here he his leading the contenders - doing all the work - which he kept up for most of all the race.

At race end - Leaf really commanded the finish sprinting away from the contenders handily for the Win. 

Sure is a lot of fun and really an honor to support and share the races with the up and coming young as well as the very fine experienced racers.  Nothing better.  What a day for racing!

Lining up for the Men's Master's races - the 40s and 50s together.  John Adamson in fine form and getting ready. 

And they are Off - A big group of amazing racers - many of them will race again in the Pro 123's a bit later. So you Know what the caliber of racing is.

Two to go and the main group is still together - get yourself ready.  Which Adamson did - finishing the Master's 50+ race in 5th place and in the $$.  Excellent racing for this fine teammate who is still working on managing respiratory challenges.  A much better spring this year than in 2011.  Onward.

And the Girl  Kat - getting ready.  Sort of a challenge to get to the races 4 hours before your race starts.  What do you do - how do you eat and keep drinking and Stay Warm?  Note Kat had everything on that she brought - thinking it would be warmer down south.  Not Really.  But the Day really did Warm up nicely.

The Women's Open race had a lot of Pink in the line up.  Strategy was to try to stick with the awesome Dee Mable and hang on!  The Velo Rosa gals raced hard and team tactics were definitely in play. Kat managed to stay up front heeding the advice from the coach.  Get up there and use the fitness. 

Every lap had the lead group working for positions and getting ready for any attacks which would come at the corner sections going into the headwinds.  A great action shot done by John A. This was somewhere in the middle of the race. Coaching was right on and kept to the front as well as could be.  Last lap had 6 of us corning into the sprint finish.

 

Kat stuck with the lead group of 6 to finish 6th. Video of the finish of the Women's Open - Good enough for a payout.  Need to work on that Sprint.  Hit some HR #'s she hasn't seen in a while if ever.  The training is good.  A great day of racing and wonderful to share it with our teammates.

Full Results Here

Next Up - this Saturday on home single track - Hope to see you on the Dirt at the Camp Ingawanis Mtn Bike Race THIS Saturday - May 19th.   Here is the Link!

This has always been a great Mtn Bike Race and here is the flyer too.

Hope to see A Lot of Racers there!  Tell your Friends.

Thanks for reading and racing.

IOWA CITY CRIT AND ROAD RACING FOR KAT

HUP HUP HUP

                                          

 Two short but very telling videos.

Kat always races hard and always has the best of times

The videos are from the Crit

and some of the pictures are from the Road Race

The fields were very big in the Women's 1,2&3's

good to see the big numbers.

Kat made us all proud. 

And do the crowds ever love her

IOWA CITY JUNIOR RACING

The Iowa City Races have a lot of opportunities for our younger racers.

In the "Junior Cat" we had both

Alijah Beatty and Leaf Lujan

representing the Spokes

And did they ever represent.  Alijah won the young women's Cat

And Leaf not only won the Crit, but ran away with the Road Race as well.

The kids making us proud.

IOWA CITY RACING

 Spent the weekend racing in Iowa City

Here's Kat racing the main event - The Old Capitol Crit.

Richard and John racing with the old guys in the Road Race

A real high light for the Spokes - Richard on the podium.

That's all I have for pictures/stories/results at this time.

Hoping for much more of this premiere Iowa Race

SQUAW CKEEK PICTURES

A LOT OF PICTURES FROM SQUAW CREEK

GETTING READY FOR IOWA CITY

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