Nittany Weekend In Brief: Sept 10-11, 2011

Let's see:

Baby Gerry rode himself into a payout in the Elite Men's field. Look, Cyclocross Mag got it on video! Go to 0:14.

Willem, fueled by hollers of Team BT's #1 fan, nabs 5th out of 5371 racers on Day 1. Obviously the Dutch Oven's temperature was set to BROIL.

The killer Bs slayed the huge field (92 prereg'd), scoring a 10th, 13th, 15th, 15th, 24th, 39th over 2 days.

Linda shows the roadies how to downhill your way to a top 15, with Nathalie and Angie close behind.

The Jersey Devil loosened his grip on me this weekend. I went the right direction around the cross course for 8th and 9th! Can you tell by the shocked expression that this has never happened before?

Add it all up, and Team Bicycle Therapy / Melitta is in a strong third (one point behind our Ciclismo friends) in the MAC team standings. Hup hup.

Ketchup.

It has been a while since our last post and a lot has happened. This post will be an attempt at catching up, so it will be a lot of pictures and a few results.

First the team bikes came in nice and early for the cross season to start.

here it is in parts

and here it is all built up. (thanks to my lovely wife for modeling with it)

Then we had a crazy hurricane that produced a little bit of flooding: (these are actually pictures of the week after the hurricane when it rained a little bit more and the river decided to spill over again right after they cleaned up the schuykill banks)

This flooding lead right into the nittany race weekend, which last year was a dust bowl that left every last MAC series racer wheezing for two months afterwards. This year, thanks to irene, we had mud and more mud.

The C's went off first with Anthony flying the flag: check out Anthony SKorochod's cycling captured for some pics of that race and Meisha's race. This is Anthony after the race:

This is anthony even later in the day

Like lipstick on a pig...

This is Meisha aftr the race: (no lipstick on this pig)

Then the lady's went off and every body looked pretty good:

there was Michelle and Linda:

and Angie

and Nathalie

Michelle killed it both days and is sitting pretty in the top 5 of the mac series. (front row callup)

Here's some action shots of Linda (she ain't afraid of no recalled fork):

Dan raced the elite masters race and looked good:

Then again Dan always looks good

Gerry raced the elite mens race for the first time and did great, finishing midpack in a field that included some international stars and J-pow

Here's Gerry getting pinned up:

Some action shots of Gerry:

Then it was almost night time and they decided to have the 2/3/4 rce:

team BT had a great showing:

Mike Miller of the Loam Rangers (or should I say, the Loam Ranger) also participated in his first cross race and killed it.

And we were all left with the beautiful memories of mudand getting clean: cue tommy boy