Well, after an incredible road season, we now find ourselves in the post-season where riders go in somewhat different directions. Brendan and Ansel will be competing in the Jr. Tour of Ireland from July 10-15, Key (Peter, Jr.; we've started to call him by his middle name mainly due to massive result data issues with USACycling, but it's kind of stuck) and Erin will be doing the Tour de Rimouski in Quebec from July 12-16 and many of our younger riders will be off to various summer camps and ski camps. So, July is a good time to rest, catch up with family and enjoy being a kid.
What we will do in July is keep our speed up by attending the Claremont training race on Tuesday night each week, that is if we can ever have a rain-free Tuesday!
After the elite team members get back from their post-season international travel, everyone except Brendan will take a much needed rest until the beginning August. B will only get a week's rest after Ireland as he's been asked to attend a Jr. National Team trip to Belgium to vie for a five-man team that will compete in the Jr. Tour of Flanders, so he'll be jumping over the pond again for three weeks in late July / early August to race in the stars and stripes of the Jr. National Team.
The next race we'll focus on as a full team will be the Concord Criterium in Concord, NH on August 4.
Thanks and enjoy your summer. I'll be touching base with results from our world travelers and then with particular plans for the August races, Green Mountain Stage Race, the fall criteriums and, of course, cyclocross season! In the meantime, I hope to see you all at Claremont, especially the kids and cubs!
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Congrats on Nats!
What an incredible National Championships for our team. I think Kevin Broderick, KMS Communications Director sums it up best in the KMS newsletter:
Brendan Rhim was crowned national champion as he won the Junior Men 17-18 Criterium and led the KMS Cycling Team at the USA Cycling National Championships this past weekend. Overall, the team took four podiums and a total of eight top-10 finishes in six days of competition against the top junior cyclists in the country.
Turner Ramsay opened the series with an 11th-place finish in Wednesday's 22-kilometer Women 10-12 road race, which she followed with a ninth in Thursday's time trial and another 11th-place finish in Friday's criterium. Ian Clarke followed that performance with an eighth-place finish in the Junior Men 13-14 road race before stepping onto the podium with a fifth-place finish in the time trial and making it another trio of top-15 finishes with a 12th-place finish in the criterium.
The older racers got into the action on Thursday with time trials in all age categories; Erin Donohue led the KMS team with her fifth-place finish in the Junior Women 17-18 category and added top-ten finishes in the criterium (sixth) and road race (seventh) to round out her race series. Peter Vollers, Jr., took seventh in the Junior Men 15-16 field before scoring a top-20 criterium finish and adding a ninth-place result in Sunday's road race.
In the ultra-competitive Junior Men 17-18 field, Brendan Rhim opened the series with a top-20 finish in the time trial before riding to a national championship in the criterium, while Ansel Dickey put his sprinting skills to work in the road race and earned a third-place finish in a 127-racer field sprint.
“We had success in the time trials with a very old school plan to race for the turnaround like it's the finish line and then do a second race on the way home. With a slightly uphill outstretch, it worked the charm,” said Head Coach Peter Vollers. “In the criterium and road race, it was all about avoiding the ‘blender effect’ of the front of the field where kids move up on the outside but then get immediately sucked back through the middle. If you stay behind that, rubber stays on the pavement and legs stay fresh until they're needed when it counts most.”
Congrats everyone for a great road season!
Brendan Rhim was crowned national champion as he won the Junior Men 17-18 Criterium and led the KMS Cycling Team at the USA Cycling National Championships this past weekend. Overall, the team took four podiums and a total of eight top-10 finishes in six days of competition against the top junior cyclists in the country.
Turner Ramsay opened the series with an 11th-place finish in Wednesday's 22-kilometer Women 10-12 road race, which she followed with a ninth in Thursday's time trial and another 11th-place finish in Friday's criterium. Ian Clarke followed that performance with an eighth-place finish in the Junior Men 13-14 road race before stepping onto the podium with a fifth-place finish in the time trial and making it another trio of top-15 finishes with a 12th-place finish in the criterium.
The older racers got into the action on Thursday with time trials in all age categories; Erin Donohue led the KMS team with her fifth-place finish in the Junior Women 17-18 category and added top-ten finishes in the criterium (sixth) and road race (seventh) to round out her race series. Peter Vollers, Jr., took seventh in the Junior Men 15-16 field before scoring a top-20 criterium finish and adding a ninth-place result in Sunday's road race.
In the ultra-competitive Junior Men 17-18 field, Brendan Rhim opened the series with a top-20 finish in the time trial before riding to a national championship in the criterium, while Ansel Dickey put his sprinting skills to work in the road race and earned a third-place finish in a 127-racer field sprint.
“We had success in the time trials with a very old school plan to race for the turnaround like it's the finish line and then do a second race on the way home. With a slightly uphill outstretch, it worked the charm,” said Head Coach Peter Vollers. “In the criterium and road race, it was all about avoiding the ‘blender effect’ of the front of the field where kids move up on the outside but then get immediately sucked back through the middle. If you stay behind that, rubber stays on the pavement and legs stay fresh until they're needed when it counts most.”
Congrats everyone for a great road season!
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