Long, Steve

Online registration closes at midnight on Friday, for the Vancouver
Courthouse Crit, so get those registrations in folks. We are looking
forward to seeing you all again this year.

Thanks for the reminder to send this out again David. J

We've got cash from the Vancouver Cycle Club, coffee from Starbucks
coffee, pizza certificates from Bortolami's Pizza, lots of stuff for the
Kiddie crits courtesy of the Frog Store and awesome preems courtesy of
Cyclepath our shop sponsor.

See the links below to register online.

See you Saturday and Sunday for a weekend of sweet crits.

Steve Long

North River Racing

From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
Behalf Of David Hart
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:28 PM
To:
Subject: [OBRA Chat] Camas Twilight Crit...This Saturday!

Come do two days of racing in Washington!

Weather is supposed to be right at 80 degrees so much cooler : )

Camas Twilight Criterium July 31st
http://www.camasbikes.com/Camas_Twilight_Crit.html

&

The Vancouver Courthouse Crit Aug 1st
http://www.northriverracing.com/blog/?page_id=8

Both races have the kiddie crit so bring your kids and your neighbors
kids and so on.

-------------------

The Camas Twilight Crit is brought to you by Ninkasi Brewing, Kobos
Coffee, Pure Wellness, Gorge Delights and Fit Right NW not to mention
cash primes brought to you by Precision Eye Care and Lacamas Credit
Union.

El Rancho Viejo & Twilight Pizza will be selling food & drinks.

Primes/prizes are:

Ninkasi 22oz bottles (if you are under 21 then coffee or cash
equivalent)

$20 gift certificates to Fit Right Northwest &

Kobos Coffee

Thanks!

--
david hart
http://www.ninkasibrewing.com/

http://www.fitrightnw.com/

http://www.kobos.com/

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Long, Steve

Calling all racers! Don't miss this year's exciting Vancouver Courthouse
Crit scheduled for Sunday, August 1st. This unique figure 8 course
offers one of the most exciting crit courses in the region.

You can register in advance and take advantage of the pre-registration
discount online at http://www.northriverracing.com/blog/?page_id=8 plus
get all the details. The flyer should also be linked to the OBRA site in
a day or two.

Please note that the race will start a block North on 12th & Daniels
this year as opposed to years past on 11th & Daniels. This race benefits
the (WSSB) Washington State School for the Blind's tandem bike riding
program.

For questions/comments please contact Joe Cipale at:

joec@aracnet.com

Steve Long

NRR

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uma k.

...IS an awesome race. It is my favorite crit on the OBRA calendar. Fast, technical, aggressive corners. In a word: Sweet! Love it almost more than any other race.

That said, I knew I was in no shape to do very well at crit on Sunday, but I still had to show up because I so enjoy the course/event. I've been benched with an injury since last season, and only started training again seriously a couple months ago. I knew I wouldn't be "competitive" in this race, but I had to do it for the love of the race.

I was one who got pulled. I wasn't lapped. Wasn't off the back. I'd been with the lead group but couldn't hold it, I began to drop back to let the group behind me catch me so I'd have riders to work with to the finish. But when I crossed the start line on one lap I just wasn't where officials would have liked me, which was in a group. Never mind there was no danger of me being in anyone's way at that point. The hammer came down. What could I do?

I've registered my complaints with the powers that be. Part of the explanation I was offered at the race was there "weren't enough officials to keep it all straight". This confused me, because the men's race just prior had riders strung out who didn't get pulled!

Last year saw similar issues, and in more races than just VCC. My thinking remains unfazed: Grouping the 1/2/3/4 women together is a problem. It's not a fair race for anyone, really. But separately, the fields aren't large enough for the promoter to justify even holding a women's race at all. Until there is a ridiculous number of Cat 1/2 women in OBRA land this is going to keep happening. The only way you become a Cat 1/2 racer is to keep racing. And sometimes that means having a crappy race.

Bear with me... this is where it all comes together.

Women's racing has been up this year across the board (well, except the MTB situation). We need to keep up the efforts that promote the sport to women to grow it even further. The more women who start road racing, the more who keep racing, the more who upgrade, the better the races will be.

Stay with it, ladies. Be a part of the solution. Volunteer at races. Organize a MTT ride for your team to find more women to ride, train and race with. There is officials training every year and OBRA always needs more officials AND volunteers. But most importantly, KEEP RACING.

It's only going to get better if we keep racing, and keep supporting other women who are racing or want to race.

Now, about that mountain biking situation...

Uma "Faster than Slow but Slower than Fast" Kleppinger

Candi Murray

Call to OBRA's top criterium racers.   If 3 or more of the top 10

leaders in a Criterium BAR category(as of July 23rd) participate in

Sunday's Vancouver Criterium special prizes will be awarded to the top

finisher of these leaders.    

These prizes will be in addition to the prizes awarded for high

finishers and prime winners.   

If you are in the top 10 OBRA Criterium BAR   (listed below) let us

know on your pre-registration form or at the race day registration

desk.   If you are not on the list below come out to race - show you

belong on the list or just have fun on the action filled course.        

The course is technical, convenient for Portland/Vancouver racers and

will be an excellent warm up for the Oregon Criterium State Championship

races on August 14th.      

To learn more about the race go to

http://www.wordsports.com/nrrcamasrace2005.htm

Proceeds beyond costs from the race are being donated to the Washington

School for the Blind.   



Senior Men                                               



1              Skerritt, Shannon      Bike Gallery

99



2              Sander, Aaron           Half Fast Velo          66



3              Coffey, Nathan         Team Oregon

66



4              Browning, John        Half Fast Velo          59



5              Johnston, Kent         Fred Meyer

41



6              Winter, Zach                            Guinness Cycling

39



7              Sampson, Jesse         Veloce/Felt

34



8              Skenzick, Nick          Hutch's Eugene         32



9              Dills, Nate                                The Bike

Gallery      31



10             Shuster, Chuck

30                                                



Cat 3                                        



1              Wilson, Joel              Paul's Bicycle Way Of Life

90



2              Beardsley, Doug       Fred Meyer

90



3              Nachtrab, Eric          Veloce/Felt

79



4              vs-Crawford, Greg    Paul's Bicycle Way Of Life        66



5              Armstrong, Lee         Gentle Lovers

47



6              Schultz, Brian           Los Ciclistas

44



7              Raynak, Geoff          Half Fast Velo          32



9              Coker, Aaron            Team Oregon

31



10             Lewis, Jason              Veloce/Felt

30



Cat 4/5                                     



1              Matson, Jeff*upgraded              Benaroya Research

Institute      85



2              Ruby, Craig               Disco Velo

68



3              Jennings, Jim

67



4              Choltus, Karl            Team Oregon

52



5              Christenson, Charles BBC                         41



6              Koester, Joel             veloshop

39



7              Ellin, Brian               veloshop

32



8              Frater, Zac                Fred Meyer

30



9              May, Ian   Team Oregon

30



10             Hill, Jacob

30                             



Sr Women                                                



1              Whitlatch, Shanan     Fred Meyer

116



2              Gollogy, Naomi       MAC                        94



3              Fisk, Andrea             Team Oregon

76



4              VanValkenburg, Heather           Sorella Forte

44



5              Shanks, Shari            Half Fast Velo

44



6              Gitlen, Laurel           Gentle Lovers

38



7              Godfrey, Norrene    Team Rubicon          37



8              Calme, Virginie         Sorella Forte

32



9              Sanborn, Melissa       Subway                     30



10             Diviney, Catherine    Half Fast Velo          28



Masters                                     



1              Holland, Steve          Huntair                     97



2              Fawcett, Todd

77



3              Larsen, Steve                             Lowes DeFeet

75



4              Mitchem, John          Casa Bruno

74



5              Steger, Mark                              Team Oregon

66



6              Willett, Kirk                              Lowes DeFeet

57



7              Martin, Eric                              Sportsman Team

One               45



8              Gebhard, Brad                                         43



9              Nigbor, Jon                              Huntair

39



10             Bourcier, Paul           Hutch's Eugene         39



Women Cat 4                                           



1              Hargie, Kristina

60



2              Vranizan, Annie                                        47



3              Gardner, Angel         Sorella Forte

43



4              Luckhardt, Erin         Hutch's Eugene         41



5              Hobson, Rachelle     Forza Jet                  37



6              Krichko, Debra                                        36



7              Cate, Rachael                            PSU

30



8              Walker, Candy          Paul's Bicycle Way of Life

30



9              Dance, Dani

28



10             Haliburton, Melanie columbia River Velo 26





Junior Men                                               



1              Kentner, Jason          BBC                         55



2              Suditu, Richard         BBC                         52



3              Woods, Chris            Forza11/ BBC

33



4              Beckman, Keith        BBC                         30



4              Chilenski, Madison   Team Oregon

30



5              Hormann, Ethan       Forza Jet                  30



7              Sparr, Cameron        BBC                         28



8              Zeisberg, Alex           bike/hincapie

25



9              Chilenski, Jacob        Team Oregon

25



10             Davidson, Dallin      Forza Jet                  25



                                                



Junior Women                                          



1              Dewey, Kallen          BBC                         52



2              Hobson, Rachelle     Forza Jet                  30



2              Jones, Andrea                           Forza Jet

30



2              Hobson, Samatha      Forza Jet                  30



5              Woolcock, Kayla      Team Oregon

25



5              Bossen, Ellie                             Team Oregon

25



5              Noreen, Alexis          Forza Jet                  25



5              Campbell, Saarah      BBC                         25



10             Hobson, Lauren        Forza Jet                  22



                                                



Masters Women                                        



1              Moss, Jan                  Group Health

47



2              Lucas, Kim                               Sorella Forte

30



3              Krichko, Debra                                        30



4              Thiele, Barbara         Team Rose City        30



5              Mautner, Meg            NoMad Sports Club

28



6              Knable, Mechele       Columbia River Velo 25



7              Leitheiser, Ann         Adidas                      22



8              Vine, Connie                            NoMad Sports Club

19



9              Hahn, Renata                            Team Rose City

17



10             Shinn, Georgeann     Columbia River Velo 15







Women 3                                  



1              Fisk, Andrea       Team Oregon          30



2              Berry, Alalia           Sorella Forte

25



3              Gitlen, Laurel           Gentle Lovers

19



4              Paris, Heather           EWEB Windpower   17



5              Shanks, Sharie           Half Fast Velo          15



6              Howard, Allison        Byrne Speciality Gas 7



7              Lu, Shahnong            Desalvo Custom Cycles

3



Candi Murray