Amy Dombroski wins Under 23 CX Nats

Congratulations to Amy on her second U23 National CX Championship!

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Central Coast Cyclocross Series #6–Fort Ord, CA
2nd, Natasha Perry, Elite Women
5th, Soni Andreini Poulsen, Women B
7th, Katrina Loera, Women B
1st, Beth Welliver, Women C (and Monterey County Champion, Women Cat C)

Shannon Gibson Wins 40-44 CX Nationals

Congrats to our latest National Champion

Snow Day

By Natasha Cowie
Boulder Colorado

Yesterday was the Colorado State Cross Championships in Lyons. It was essentially forty-five minutes of utter stupidity, plus warmup time, although it totally wasn’t warmup. It was more like, hey, I’m already dumb enough to be out here in fourteen degrees racing my bike, why don’t I ride around for another hour first in order to bring my core body temperature down about fifty degrees and make sure that I feel like I’ve been sitting in liquid nitrogen. And then I’ll claw my way across the frozen tundra to the start line and stand there for another five minutes so that hypothermia can fully set in before the announcer yells go and everybody immediately runs into each other.

The pictures tell everything. Thanks to Chellie and Jim (Tim) and Beth for taking them and for being great great cheerers and cow bell ringers. I would tag your blogs here as a token of my gratitude, except that as I mentioned last post, I do not know how to tag other people’s blogs in my own, and this probably makes me an inferior life form. I mean, Amy probably thinks it does, but then she’s always damaging my self-esteem anyway, and trying to steal my wheels and stuff. sniff. You’re so mean Amy.

It took approximately 52 minutes and two mugs of ovaltine (the classic chocolate malt flavour, in the orange container) to put all this on, and by the time I was finished dressing, I had to pee. It was a long morning.

It takes work to look like a seductive doofus.

And then we raced through the playground from hell frozen over.

So snowy.

Then the race was over, and Amy won some badass socks and a silver medal. Jen tried to steal the entire stack of gold medals, which is as good as winning them if you can get away with it. Everybody hallucinated the whole way home. And the best part! After the race we had snacktime!

Thanks again to everybody who cheered and took pictures. and way to represent Bellas. we had Shannon G, Mo, Amy, Jen, and me. The flair was taking over the field.

Hey, it totally wasn’t cold enough. Time to head to Kansas City for the nationals afterparty.

Oh, I think there’s a race there too.

Anna Wins!

Bay Area Super Prestige Cyclocross #5–Coyote Point, CA
1st, Barbara Howe, Women A
9th, Natasha Perry, Women A
4th, Nicole Bumbaca, Women B
14th, Katrina Loera, Women B
16th, Rebecca Dyas, Women B
1st, Andi Mackie, Women 35+

Bay Area Super Prestige Cyclocross Series General Classification, CA
8th, Natasha Perry, Women A
11th, Barbara Howe, Women A
13th, Katrina Loera, Women B
21st, Sabine Dukes, Women B
22nd, Marian Hunting, Women B
21st, Rebecca Dyas, Women C
31st, Yvette Crockell, Women C
1st, Andi Mackie, Women 35+
7th, Soni Andreini Poulsen, Women 35+

Verge NECCS #7–NBX GP, RI
4th, Anna Milkowski, Elite Women
16th, Melanie Swartz, Elite Women

Northern California/Nevada State Cyclocross Championship–Livermore, CA
1st, Andi Mackie, Women 35+
3rd, Soni Andreini Poulsen, Women 35+

Verge NECCS #6–WE Steadman GP, RI
1st, Anna Milkowski, Elite Women
7th, Melanie Swartz, Elite Women
12th, Stephanie White, Elite Women

Many Much Epicness

By Amy Dombrowski
Boulder, Colorado

Anna! You bet your kielbasa she’s Polish.

Whateva I’m bad, I do what I wanna.

1/3 of the pit crew that saved the weekend and let the show go on.

Before the first epic day…trying to stay warm and avoid the rain.

 

Another third of the most excellent pit crew.

And Sara, the crazy Velo Bella downhiller who put Jen, Anna, and I up for the weekend! Who is psyched in the background?

Anna works on her game face.

Muddy much Shannon?

Epic and cluster were the words of the weekend. Geez, it wouldn’t stop raining. There was a brief 30 second period when we spotted the sun, but it vanished before the words could escape from our frosty shivering lips. Saturday was fun, but I’m not sure I can say the same about Sunday quite yet, as I can still remember the compulsive trembling shivers for 45 minutes post-race. I crossed the line cross-eyed with chills, bolted for the van, dropped my mud-soaked bike, stripped naked as quickly as possible, attempted to wipe the layer of mud off, and put every single layer of dry clothing on, while sitting in the van with the heat cranked to the max. But no, the shivers would not cease. Shaking, teeth chattering, out of our minds, we sat for 45 minutes, drinking hot chocolate until finally, slowly we mustered some sort of control over our shocked bodies. Before, during, and after was a cluster, but my-oh-my, was it epic.I had my first bike change. Though messy and a cluster, it happened with Donn’s (Challenge Tires) help. It’s something I need to work on. I was stubborn and didn’t take a bike change on Saturday, when it was really needed, so by the end, my bike had about 20lbs of excess mud on it! Sunday wasn’t so bad because there was water falling from the sky and spraying up at you as the course had basically been drowned.

Our tents blew away on Saturday night, so yet again, Ben Turner and the Clif Bar Development Team let us take over their trainers, tents, and compost for warming up.

Central Coast Cyclocross Mountain Bike Race Final, Fort Ord, CA

a retro-posting that was missed by the results blog six months ago…the result is still every bit as impressive as it was in June…

1st, Eliece Horton, Beginner Women

and congratulations to three-year-old Skye Horton for her first Kiddie Cross race at Surf City!

Central Coast Cyclocross Series #5–Fort Ord, CA
2nd, Natasha Perry, Elite Women
3rd, Andi Mackie, Elite Women
3rd, Nicole Bumbaca, Women B
5th, Soni Andreini Poulsen, Women B
6th, Katrina Loera, Women B
1st, Beth Welliver, Women C
3rd, Amy Abele, Women 35+

Capital Cross Classic, VA
4th, Melanie Swartz, Elite Women

USGP #6–Portland Cup, OR
7th, Amy Dombroski, Elite Women
8th, Kathy Sherwin, Elite Women
10th, Barbara Howe, Elite Women
16th, Anna Milkowski, Elite Women
22nd, Shannon Gibson, Elite Women
23rd, Kari Studley, Elite Women
26th, Jennifer Tilley, Elite Women
30th, Maria Stewart, Elite Women
34th, Marian Jamison, Elite Women

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