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Cumberland Cycles Road Racing Crew held their second annual Fall Training Road Race today, and the results are in! In fact, I will "call" the race here and now! It was outstanding.
First of all, let me thank Mr. Robert Brooks (Bob), a Masters National Bracket CAT II Racer from Indianapolis, for joining us today. Bob is an official USA Cycling Coach, and is Aaron Denney's coach and JT's long time friend and confident. Bob races for the Indiana Hand Center Team based out of Indianapolis and is a cycling trainer.
The day started out with a ride with JT, Bob, Jack Evans and Jenny Denney riding the Cannonball Loop from the Stab Fire house. After those 20 miles, the actual fall training race got under way with the following participants:
JT, Bob Brooks, Jack Evans, Aaron Denney, Roger Whitlock, Chuck Senters and Charlie Bailey (female).
The training race followed the exact proposed KYIN Spring Points race course.
Everything stayed fairly well intact all the way to Adams Grocery, but up the climb from Adams, JT, Jack, Bob and Aaron broke clear, leaving Roger, Charlie, and Charles separated. Over 1675 to the Radio Tower, Bob attacked and got a sizable gap but had to wait on Aaron, JT and Jack because he did not know the course. Between the radio tower and Mt. Victory store, JT launched an attack and left Jack and Aaron stranded off the back. Jack wisely chose to force Aaron to neutralize the attack. Aaron pulled Jack back to Bob and JT but once there, Jack correctly realized that everybody but him had been working hard.... (JT attacked, Bob went with him, and Aaron pulled Jack back up). It was reasonable for Jack to attack at this point, and he did... and in so doing, Jack isolated Aaron for good.
From MT. Victory, it was Jack, JT and Bob. We headed down the steep decent to Providence Road and during the course, Jack mentioned not being able to climb Providence and he figured that he'd get dropped. But as fate would have it, Bob attacked and JT cramped up, and only Jack was able to go with Bob. Bob climbed up the hill fastest, but, looking back, he saw that Jack had a gap on JT and he allowed Jack to come up. With Jack and Bob working together, JT was unable to bridge up. After three or four miles, JT had to concede and looked back to see who might be coming for aid. Three or four miles later, JT spotted somebody coming up and he assumed it was Aaron. But when the rider came by, it was Roger. JT Tried to stay on Rogers wheel, or even help him neutralize Jack and Bob, but he was ineffective. Roger quickly dropped JT and went on to finish the race in third place. JT (me) finished 4th, Charles Senters finished 5, Aaron 6 and Charlie Bailey 7th.
This race was an outstanding effort by Jack Evans and Roger Whitlock.
In the final sprint, Bob was able to launch and beat Jack in the sprint.
Here are the results:
1 - male - Bob Brooks
1 - female - Charlie Bailey
2 - male - Jack Evans
3 - male - Roger Whitlock
4 - male - JT
5 - male - Chuck Senters
6 - male - Aaron Denney
The third annual fall training race will be next November!!!!! Be sure to put it on your calendar.
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