Team Roaring Mouse racers have exploded on the track racing scene this season, continuing on their growth from last year. Many new faces at the local track at Hellyer Park in San Jose. Veteran riders like Nole Studley and stalwart attendants like Cathy Morgan have helped to shepherd in the new talent.......and all things bicycle superstar Bev Chaney will undoubtedly become a force in her "final frontier" of bicycle competition. Jay Parkhill has been slaying the B fields on wednesday nights and we look forward to him joining the A group in the coming weeks. Ed "walking disaster" Ceasar has shown great potential as well, and is learning fast, despite himself.
Over the weekend Ben and Nole competed in the Far West International Style Omnium at Encino Velodrome in SoCal. They learned a lot and had fun riding the steeper banking down there. A steady overall performance and super teamwork from Nole allowed Ben to win the days event. Glory To the Mouse!
The Mice had some incredibly gutsy performances, highlighted by Carrie Edwards dominating the women's elite 3's race, storming from off the back to off the front en route to a an impressive solo finish victory!
no great victory pic yet emerged, so this little "hey I'm sexy, check me out" look from Isaias will have to do for now. all style!
This race is a beast! anyone completing even a portion of their scheduled laps has gone to battle. Congrats to all the mouse competitors, Liam, Sean, Sam, Hank, Mr. Tuffy, Tim, Nick, James, Dane, DP, Ryan, Bev, Bergen, and a special congrats to
Jay Parkhill on the first of many strong finishes this year. and everyone, please give your bikes a thorough once over to check for broken stuff.......
Good Luck at Sea Otter this weekend!!!!!!!! Glory To The Mouse!!!!!!
This past weekend, Team Roaring Mouse racers conquered Dirt, Gravel, Unimproved Country Roads, Corporate Office Parking Lots, and even some water!
Congrats to Ryan Byars, Bev Chaney, and Megan Zemny on their Victories!!!
and congrats on dominating performances to Dan Murray aka Mr. Tuffy, Josh Chauvet, Dave Parrish, Ben Stern, OMD & PPH, Misses & Master Bates, Herr Weiner, and Ren (for tri-ing hard!)
hard to even keep track of all the fantstic results! way to go team!
What a fun course! hourglass shape with 8 90degree turns, super fast and swoopy!! The race was far away, but well funded....meaning big purses. E3 was $1000, with $410 in adtl primes, woot!!!
Nole and Ben made the trip down and pretty much cleaned up, taking 25% of the available cash en route to 2nd and 6th place finishes. Ben ended up in the early break on lap 2 of 30 with a CVC rider and due to some savvy blocking by Nole and the rest of the CVC team, it stuck till the finish.
Nole then put up a solid result in the field sprint and is showing signs of another april may domination this year!
Team Roaring Mouse whooped some ass at the Madera Stage Race, with two stage wins, a GC win, and a bunch of podiums in E3, E4, & W3 categories! Selfless team racing and tactics played a major role in the weekend's successes.
The team blog has been on something of a hiatus in the post-cyclocross and pre-road season overlap, but the road season has started in earnest in the past couple weeks, first with the Snelling Road Race/OG Merced weekend and now with the Merco Credit Union Cycling Classic weekend.
Merco is a weekend near and dear to the collective Mouse heart. Team Roaring Mouse racers Matt Peterson and Ben Stern swept the E4 races in 2008 bringing home two river rocks. This just one week before Matt was killed along with Kristy Gough (fellow Merco rock winner in and up-and-coming Olympic potential) in a collision with a car during a training ride.
This weekend the team went back to Merced in even greater numbers galvanized and ready to do Matt's memory justice.
Saturday featured the Merco Credit Union Downtown Grand Prix which Matt won in 2008. The Mouse women threw down, and while a W4 managed to narrowly beat Bev and Marissa to the line for the rock the Cat 3 Mouse women had a win and double podium under their belts before the guys had even started racing.
The guys fell a little short of their goals in the E4 race due to some unfortunate crashes and interruptions, however their teamwork was nothing short of awesome. Isaias and James drove the pace early on while Jeff took Ryan to the front in the final few laps to get set up for the sprint. Despite having to work around a crash Ryan still managed to pull out a top ten.
The E3 guys weren't able to produce a podium either but Ben, Nole and Seth put in some excellent work. Ben spent most of the race attack off the front either solo or in a break.
Merced was already infested with Mice on Saturday, but their numbers doubled for Sunday's Merco Credit Union Cycling Classic Foothills Road Race. Sunday's story was similar to Saturday's.
The Mice were 10-strong in the E4 race and while playing coy the first lap drove the pace during the second lap to get Josh set up for the final sprint. Jeff, Isaias, and Hank set a fast tempo through Keyes before turning onto Cox Ferry where Hank attacked on the rollers to help shed any stragglers. Isaias took and massive pull with 1km to go to get Sam, Ryan, and Josh set up for the sprint. Unfortunately Sam got boxed in and Ryan couldn't get around. Josh still managed to get through for a top ten.
The E3 Mice had 72 miles of racing and a big portion of that was some very hard work done by Ben, DP, Nole, and Ammon to bring back a break up the road that had nearly a minute on the peloton. They made the catch with a few km to and DP and Ben set Seth up for the sprint, but all the work realing back in the break left them with little to give for the finale.
Once again the Mice women made us look good and Bergen pulled off an amazing win in the W3/4 race and brought home a river rock. Here's a video of the W3/4 sprint by NCNCA Racing guru Steven Woo.
Huge thanks go to Tom Lollini for providing accommodations and fast healing vibes go out to all the racers that went down this weekend.
Early this week Team Roaring Mouse racer, Sam Parker, had all of his racing bikes taken from his garage in the Inner Richmond near Fulton and 8th. Please keep your eyes out for the following bikes. If seen contact Sam immediately - sam.parker[at]yahoo.com.
Beer, goldsprints, and trophies. Celebrating the ups and downs of 2008 with Team Roaring Mouse at Sports Basement. Beer provided by team sponsor Lagunitas and entertainment/games by Murphy.
Ryan and Marissa named best road riders of 2008. Hank is best all-around 'crosser for his relentless enthusiasm for the sport. Russ takes the MTB trophy. And Ashley is the best track racer of 2008. Katy and Brooke earn soigneur of the year titles for the never-ending support of the team and the sport.
There will be a candlelight vigil for Mark Pendleton this Saturday, Dec 6 at 5PM. The location is Hwy 4 & McEwen Road. The idea is to celebrate and remember Mark, but also to keep awareness in the media since the responsible party has not stepped forward yet. We want the entire community to keep a look out and help Mark's family find closure.
Team Roaring Mouse Men's road manager, Ben Stern, had his fixed gear bike stolen from Rockridge Bart yesterday. Since returning from Superweek this large white IRO has been his primary training tool and commuter. Please keep and eye out and contact Ben if you see it: ben [at] teamroaringmouse.com
Ben would like the chance to buy it back, no questions asked.
Specs:
Large White IRO frame
Generic black stem, seatpost, winged handlebars
Distinctive leather bartape
White plastic Viscount saddle
Black Bulletproof crankset.
Silver front and rear brakes
Fixed gear, but has Shimano 105 shifter/levers for the brakes
