State CX

Quick update: Tony Marut State Champion, Bill Marut 4th Master 35

Photo's from BA Cross

2 More and a Win

Wow. Cross season is getting close to being over. That stinks. On Saturday I went to the Cap City Cross race in Newark that my buddy Kyle Winger put on. He made a very hard course, but it was a good race with NATO and Ben Orrt. Ben won with his good bike handling skills, and I end up with 2nd. Sunday was the my team's race at The Fields. The course was great, it was tough but there were a lot good transitions, and a bunch of 2 wheel drifting. I end up winning! It was a good race with Paul, Ernesto and Twining.

Results:http://teamlakeeffect.net/Documents/The_Fields_Cross_November_18_2007.htm

photo by Freedman

UCI Cyclocross Report: Centennial Park Toronto

This report is from my 3rd and 4th UCI cross races of the season. The race was in Toronto at Centennial Park. This park was huge for a city park; it must have been about 1000 acres of land. I drove up to Toronto on Friday with Ernesto, and Jacob. We stayed at the host hotel. The weather was poor on the way up, it was raining and about 40, we were hoping that it would be dry for the race because we didn’t have anyone to help with in the pits with bike exchanges if it was nasty. We got a good night sleep, headed over to the course around 12:30. The first impression of the course was that it was going to be hard. The course that was going to be used on Sunday was on the side of a Ski slope, with lots of climbing.
Saturdays course was on the other side of the ski slope. It was hilly to but had good flow. We got about 4 laps of warm up then we were ready to start. We all started about last row, in a field of about 50. The start was on gravel then went in to a fun off camber section. The first lap was ok I missed a wreck and was in about 20th. I worked my way up to 15th by the end of the race. I felt ok and was able to race. This was a lot better than when I went to New York, 6 weeks ago.
Sundays race was on the Ski slope. This was a poor course for any cross race. There was no flow to the course. At the start a guy in the back row took out 5 guys about 15 feet into the race. The UCI commissar fined him! I got a bad start and didn’t ride very well till the last 2 laps when I passed 5 people. I was disappointed in my performance, but I was still 16th in a good field. The Next UCI will be in 2 weeks and hopefully I will be riding faster by then. Thanks for the Support.

Two more down

Well another two races in the books, Michigan on Saturday Orrville on Sunday. Michigan was not good. I made the front group for about 20min then exploded. Fun. Orrville was better. I got the Holeshot! That has not happened since I injured my shoulder. Paul got away from me then broke his chain, he has to much power for a chain to contain. I was in a group with Brent, Rudy, Matt and Jeremy. Matt crashed, Jeremy was sick so that left Brent, Rudy and me racing for the win. Brent won the sprint by a few inches. Rudy got 3rd. For the overall series I was 2nd and Rudy was 3rd and we both missed a race. That was cool. Julie won the women's race. Tony was 2nd in a good battle in the B race, He was 3rd in the series with missing a race. Bill was 3rd in the masters series. Cameron raced well in the A race. UCI next.