2011 custom ship gear

Basic black (default kit colors):


Snazzy white (alternate kit colors):


They're bad pictures, I know, but you'll get the general idea. The "boat logos" on the sleeves will be straightened out so that they align horizontally with the cuff. And the jerseys will also be plastered with our sponsors, so be prepared for that.

What sponsor logos will be on the jersey? I'm glad you asked:

(1) Sunrise Computers & Electronics, prominently on the front/back, billboard-style beneath the SHIP banner.

(2) The Carlisle Group, one shoulder on the back above the SHIP banner.

(3) Mountainside Ski & Sport, other shoulder and back pocket.

(4) Wertner Signs, back pocket.

Want one? Get in touch. We'd love to sell you one.

(Custom bibs, wind vests, and winter jackets also available. Vests and jackets will have no sponsorship logos--just SU stuff.)

Summer Cell Pictures

the (almost) half world championships, 2010

It's back. The (Almost) Half World Championships, 2010.

Saturday, September 25, 9:00 am.

Last year was so much fun (more fun), we've decided to do it again. Bigger (more people) and better (fewer miles) than last time.

Here's the course (a link to interactive map, below a picture):

The course is 8.8 miles long with just under 750 ft of climbing. To encourage participation, we'll do SEVEN laps, for a total of 62 miles. Don't want to ride 62 miles? Just come anyway. Do what you want. Enjoy the fun.

We start at the corner of Strohm and Chestnut Grove (search for 190 Strohm Rd, Shippensburg, PA).

Special prizes for the first finishers and last finishers.

You. Could. Be. The. (Almost.) Half. Champion. Of. The. World!

Shippensburg University Cycling Hosts Youth Bike Rodeo

For Immediate Release:

Shippensburg University Cycling Announces Youth Bike Rodeo

Shippensburg, Pennsylvania – September 16, 2010 – On Friday, September 24, 2010, Shippensburg University Cycling will host the Fourth Semi-Annual Spring/Fall Youth Bike Rodeo. Intended for children in Kindergarten through fifth grades, the event will include activities such as helmet fitting, minor bicycle maintenance, bicycle fitting, safety tips, and a skills-testing obstacle course. The event begins at 4:30 pm and will continue until 6:00 pm.

The rodeo will be held on the Shippensburg University campus, in the parking lot between the student recreation fields and the Luhrs Performing Arts Center. While there will be no adult specific activities, parents are encouraged to stay and participate. All participants should bring a bicycle and wear a helmet.

This event builds off the success of previous SU Cycling Team sponsored youth bike rodeos. Thirty to forty children participated in each event.

About Shippensburg University Cycling: Shippensburg University Cycling is organized as a university club sport. The mission of Shippensburg University Cycling is to promote cycling socially as well as to prepare athletes for collegiate competition. In 2009-2010, Ship Cycling boasted 28 members, 10 of which competed in at least one USA Cycling sanctioned race, accounting for 60 rider race days in total.

Ship Cycling competes in road and mountain bike events in the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference (collegiatecycling.org/eccc) under the auspices of USA Cycling (usacycling.org). The team is funded by the University Student Senate as well as the generous support of area businesses including Sunrise Computers and Electronics (www.digitalsunrise.com), The Carlisle Group (tcgrecruit.com), Historic Preservation Services (www.hps-preservation.com), Mountainside Ski & Sport (www.mountainsideski-sports.com) and Wertner Signs (www.wertnersigns.com/).

The team holds regular training rides, open to all area cyclists, in the rural farmland and mountainous terrain of Cumberland and Franklin Counties.

For more information on the Shippensburg University Cycling Team, please contact Nathan Goates, faculty advisor (nwgoates@ship.edu), Matt Conroy, club president (mc3923@ship.edu), or visit our blog at shipcycling.blogspot.com.

CONTACT:

Dr. Nathan Goates

Shippensburg University

717-477-1214

nwgoates@ship.edu

http://shipcycling.blogspot.com/

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september starlight circle race #3

A post-action blurry iPhone shot of the crew, minus one.

We had a total of nine riders last night (Zach was too occupied with his intervals to pose for the picture), a good showing. But the race was sort of weird...

Props to Brian for showing up and riding his 40 lb 26" wheeled wunderbike. We'll get this kid rolling on a library bike and he'll feel like he was shot out of a cannon.

Grass Track this Tuesday!!

When: 6pm Tuesday August 10, 2010
Where: The park at Hershey rd/Neil Rd and Airport Road

What: Grass Track
Grass track is like velodrome style racing, but on a short grass oval. A good activity to get in some short, high intensity racing. Plus its a lot of fun to try all the different kinds of track racing events. You don't need any special bike to race, anything willl work: road bike, cross bike, mountain bike, trike....anything! Come out and play.

Hagerstown Crit

Jon, Goatsause, and I attended the Hagerstown Challenge Crit a couple weekends ago. I found a helmet cam from our race so I decided to link it: http://vimeo.com/13345310

You can see me a few times in my MU Kit (Yellow) and you can see the crash that caused Jon to go off the road and over the curb (unharmed) but blowing out a tube and busting up his front wheel.

2010 summer smackdown round two...RESULTS

Eighteen riders came out Wednesday night to contest the second round of the 2010 South Mountain Summer Smackdown.

Wednesday's event was a 22-mile road race, a route that followed Pine Grove Rd southwest from Pine Grove Furnace SP to Shippensburg Rd, over the Piney Mountain Ridge, then northwest along Wenksville and Coon Rds, back over the mountain on Pine Grove Furnace/Bendersville Rd, and finishing with 1.5 hilly miles back to Laurel Lake.

There were a few half-hearted attempts at attacks and breaking away on the route out Pine Grove Rd and back again on Wenksville, but nothing proved decisive until the Bendersville Rd climb. Brian (YBR) and Chris (YBR guest rider) put in short digs on the lower slopes of the climb that were easily marked by 2M (Ship Cycling). Though the gap hadn't grown to more than a few bike lengths, the goat recovered his sauce, moved up to and passed the earlier aggressors and, with 2M on his wheel, countered with a move that would see the rest of the field distanced and eventually fighting for third place.

"Brian has been climbing really well lately, so when I saw Brian and 2M with a little gap, I thought I'd be watching them duke it out for the win from behind," the good Dr. Goatesauce said after the race. "But when I'd recovered from the initial surge and worked my way back to Brian I saw that he'd blown and realized the time was now, so I rode around him and with Mike on my wheel I just gave it all I had."

All he had was enough, the effort soon left 2M behind and Dr. Goatesauce had 75 yards over the summit. From there it was just a matter of keeping his head down until the finish.

Behind, however, the strung-out riders regrouped and put in a good-faith effort at catching 2M, who survived the sprint for second place by only half a wheel. Brian, Scott (SMVC), and Pete (Ship Cycling) rounded out the top five, an excellent result for the novice Ship Cycling rider.

Individual results:

(1) Dr. Goatesauce (Ship Cycling)
(2) Mike Maret (Ship Cycling)
(3) Brian Hopkins (YBR)
(4) Scott (SMVC)
(5) Pete L. (Ship Cycling)
(6) Pat Hankins (SMVC)
(7) Chris Flegal (YBR guest rider)
(8) Jere Ballard (SMVC)
(9) Joe Kaehler (SMVC)
(10) Rider Big E (Ship Cycling)
(11) Tim Rohrbaugh (SMVC)
(12) Paul P. (YBR)
(13) Jim Hartnett (SMVC)
(14) Chop (Ship Cycling)
(15) John (YBR guest rider)
(16) Rich Shaffer (SMVC)

Donna Wiser was also out, though she didn't quite ride with the group so all I can say definitively is that she was the first female finisher.

Dan Daly started with us, but then took a circuitous route back to the finish, more to watch the action than to compete, methinks.

Team results:

(1) Ship Cycling (1+2+5 = 8)
(2) SMVC (4+6+8 = 18)
(3) YBR (3+7+12 = 22)

Official team standings after round two:

(1) SMVC 8 pts
(1) Ship Cycling 8 pts
(3) YBR 1 pts

Good times!

(See you next Wednesday for round three: the South Mountain hill climb.)

starlight circle race #5 (june 23)

Fun to have Bri-Hop join us for the fun (though not fun that I couldn't drop him, try as I did). Many happy returns...

Also awesome to have the flegal eagle with us again. He broke his bike on Sunday and still found a way to make it.

D Grace had to work. 2M was playing with a girl, so he was excused. But Chop, Cody, and Zach...would have liked to see y'all...


Results from Round 5:

(1) jonny m, 25 pts
(2) bri-hop, 20 pts
(3) dr goatesauce, 16 pts
(4) chris, the flegal eagle, 13 pts
(5) jimmy, 11 pts

Combined point standings after five rounds:

(1) dr goatesauce, 93 pts
(2) 2m, 90 pts
(3) jonny m, 70 pts
(4) jimmy, 42 pts
(5) d grace, 39 pts
(6) conroy, 32 pts
(7) chris, the flegal eagle, 26 pts
(8) bri-hop, 20 pts
(9) kelly flantastic, 19 pts
(10) co-dee, 11 pts
(11) su track & cc runner whose-name-I-can't-remember, 11 pts
(12) brad, 11 pts

Women's standings after three rounds:

(1) kelly flantastic, 50 pts

Next round: Not sure. On the next three Wednesdays we've rounds two, three, and four of the South Mountain Summer Smackdown scheduled, so we probably won't pick up the Starlight Circle Races again until after all that wraps up. At least, that's my thinking. I could be persuaded otherwise.

See you next week at the Smackdown RR!

starlight circle race #4 (june 2)

Kind of a sad showing for round four. And we even had a new-comer drive all the way from Mechanicsburg.

Nonetheless, it was pretty exciting race. For the second week in a row it ended in a four-up spring. Had Chop and D-grace been there we'd had quite a race.

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Round 5 on JUNE 23rd! (Postponed one week...because I'll be out of town on the 16th, and to get nestled in the off week from the Ironmasters.)

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Results from Round 4:

(1) jonny m, 25 pts
(2) 2m, 20 pts
(3) dr goatesauce, 16 pts
(4) chris, the flegal eagle, 13 pts
(5) co-dee, 11 pts

Combined point standings after four rounds:

(1) 2m, 90 pts
(2) dr goatesauce, 77 pts
(3) jonny m, 45 pts
(4) d grace, 39 pts
(5) conroy, 32 pts
(6) jimmy, 31 pts
(7) kelly flantastic, 19 pts
(8) chris, the flegal eagle, 13 pts
(9) co-dee, 11 pts
(10) su track & cc runner whose-name-I-can't-remember, 11 pts
(11) brad, 11 pts

Women's standings after three rounds:

(1) kelly flantastic, 50 pts

Next round: Wednesday, June 2, 9:30 pm!

2010 summer smackdown round one...RESULTS

Last Thursday saw 14 riders throwing down on the Ironmasters TT course...competing for summer club pride. The event was enough to inspire several PRs (I know of at least four) and bring out at least a couple of newcomers.

Individual results:

(1) Pat H. SMVC 23:09
(2) Dr. G Ship 23:18
(3) Brian H. YBR 24:09
(4) Tim R. SMVC 24:53
(5) Jere B. SMVC 25:08
(6) Joe K. SMVC 25:17
(7) Paul P. YBR 25:25
(8) Jon M. Ship 25:30
(9) Jim H. SMVC 26:17
(10) Chris Lost Boys 26:21
(11) Rich S. SMVC 26:51
(12) Pete L. Ship 27:26
(13) Chop Ship 28:40
(14) Gary K. 29:54

Congrats to SMVC and Ship Cycling for fielding full teams. Sorry, YBR, only two riders disqualifies you from team scoring.

Team results:

(1) Pat H. SMVC 23:09
(2) Dr. G Ship 23:18
Brian H. YBR 24:09
(3) Tim R. SMVC 24:53
(4) Jere B. SMVC 25:08
(5) Joe K. SMVC 25:17
Paul P. YBR 25:25
(6) Jon M. Ship 25:30
Jim H. SMVC 26:17
Chris Lost Boys 26:21
(7) Rich S. SMVC 26:51
(8) Pete L. Ship 27:26
(9) Chop Ship 28:40
Gary K. 29:54

SMVC 1+3+4 = 8
Ship Cycling 2+6+8 = 16

Official team standings after round one:

SMVC 5 pts
Ship 3 pts
YBR 0 pts
Lost Boys 0 pts

ROUND TWO: Pine Grove RR, Wednesday, June 30 (rain date July 1). Meet at the Laurel Lake parking lot.

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In case you can't get enough, I proposed the following alternative team scoring strategy, but it was nixed for simplicity's sake. The order of overall results would be the same, the difference being that incomplete teams would also score points, in accord with the following complicated scoring algorithm.

Say you've got 20 riders that come out one evening. The worst score a three-rider team could get is 18+19+20 = 57. An incomplete team is awarded points such that it must get a worse score than even the worst performing complete team (to award participation), but could still get on the board and compete with other incomplete teams. Incomplete teams would be assigned one or two "ghost riders" that score one point worse than the last placed rider, in this case, 21, PLUS they are given a penalty so that they couldn't score more than the worst complete team, in this case, 57.

So...if there are 20 people that show up for an event, and only one rider from team Hot Shots, and that rider places first, the team scores 1 + 21 + 21 + 15 (penalty) = 58. That way the team is still in the standings, but they're obviously going to lose over any team that has three riders.

If there are 20 people and the first two riders are from team Hot Shots, the team scores 1 + 2 + 21 + 34 (penalty) = 58.

If we did it that way, the results for Thursday would look like this:

(1) Pat H. SMVC 23:09
(2) Dr. G Ship 23:18
(3) Brian H. YBR 24:09
(4) Tim R. SMVC 24:53
(5) Jere B. SMVC 25:08
(6) Joe K. SMVC 25:17
(7) Paul P. YBR 25:25
(8) Jon M. Ship 25:30
(9) Jim H. SMVC 26:17
(10) Chris Lost Boys 26:21
Rich S. SMVC 26:51
(11) Pete L. Ship 27:26
(12) Chop Ship 28:40
(13) Gary K. 29:54

One rider penalty = (11 + 12 + 13) - (1 + 14 + 14) + 1 = 8

Two rider penalty = (11 + 12 + 13) - (1 + 2 + 14) + 1 = 20

So...

SMVC score = 1 + 4 + 5 = 10
Ship score = 2 + 8 + 11 = 21
YBR score = 3 + 7 + 14 + 20 = 44
Lost Boys score = 10 + 14 + 14 + 8 = 46
Gary K. team score = 13 + 14 + 14 + 8 = 49

Standings...

SMVC 25 pts
Ship 20 pts
YBR 16 pts
Lost Boys 13 pts
Gary K team 11 pts

Y'all should see my grade book. I just can't help but make things complicated.

2010 south mountain summer smackdown

(Should have posted this a couple weeks ago. Posted now for record-keeping's sake. And the calendar.)

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Back for 2010, it's the battle of South Mountain (or something similarly grandiose and awe-inspiring)!

o^o o^o o^o

Yup, this summer, like last summer, Ship Cycling is going to collaborate with South Mountain Velo and Yellow Breeches Racing for the 2010 SMVC/YBR/Ship Cycling Summer Smackdown. This is how it works:

There are FOUR events, an individual time trial, a road race (its only like 23 miles or something), a hill climb to Big Flat, and, new this year, a team time trial.

Each event is scored kind of like a cross country meet. Each team's first three riders to finish score points for the team. The fourth and fifth riders displace the points riders from other teams would score. Additional riders are excluded from team scoring. Lowest point total wins.

So, say the first four riders that finish an event are Ship Cycling and the next three riders that finish are South Mountain. Ship Cycling would score 1 + 2 + 3 = 6 points for their first three finishers. Fourth place is Ship Cycling; he doesn't score any points, but he pushes South Mountain riders down the scale so they score more points. South Mountain would score 5 + 6 + 7 = 18 points. 6 < 18 so Ship Cycling wins.

Even though it's billed as a competition between the three area clubs, EVERYONE IS INVITED! Others can form their own teams (I'm campaigning for Lost Boys to send a contingent) or just vie for individual glory. Non-team riders displace the points teams would earn.


HERE'S THE CALENDAR (everything subject to change):

** Thurs, June 3, 6:00 pm - individual time trial. YBR hosts. Meet at the campground on Pine Grove Rd about five miles north of Pine Grove Furnace SP. (This is the regular Ironmasters TT, hosted by the much loved and probably underappreciated Mark Laser.)

** Wed, June 30 (rain date: July 1), 6:00 pm - road race. Ship Cycling hosts. Meet at Pine Grove Furnace SP. The parking lot by the reservoir. (Probably the same course that we did last year--south on 233, left on Shippensburg Rd, left on Wenksville, left on Coon, left on Bendersville Rd, right on Pine Grove Rd. Probably the same course... It's negotiable.)

** Wed, July 7 (rain date: July 8), 6:00 pm - South Mountain hill climb. SMV hosts. Meet at Southhampton Township Park. (Mass start hill climb up the seven-some miles from Cleversburg to Big Flat.)

** Wed, July 15, time tbd -- team time trial. Dan Daly hosting. (Not sure on the details yet. Probably we'll run this on Route 174, Dan's normal time trial route--for those of you to whom that means anything--from a few miles south of Carlisle to a few miles short of Shippensburg and back again. 40k. We'll have to do this a little later in the day so as to not have to fight traffic, but probably by 7:00 pm we should be fine. We also have to agree on rules, but there's plenty of time for those mundane details...)


EXCITING!

starlight circle race #3 (may 19)

Well, as tomorrow is race #4, I suppose I ought to write something up about race #3, eh? But now that it's been two weeks my memory is getting fuzzy. (If someone else would like to take over posting results, by all means...)

The standout performance of the night came from relative newcomer D-Grace. He's been on a bike for what, maybe one month, and he's wholly capable of keeping pace with the leaders and even throwing down for the sprint on the last lap. Very impressive. Just makes the fun that much more fun.

The glory of the night, however, belonged to 2M, who lengthened his slender lead (being tied on points with dr goatsauce) by taking the sprint in a photo finish over Jonny M. The not-so-saucy goat limped in for third with D-Grace right behind. Ship track and cross country runner whose-name-I-can't-remember followed with an impressive gap over nighttime race veteran Jimmy S. (I hope I'm not forgetting anyone...)

Results from Round 3:

(1) 2m, 25 pts
(2) jonny m, 20 pts
(3) dr goatesauce, 16 pts
(4) d grace, 13 pts
(5) su track & cc runner whose-name-I-can't-remember, 11 pts
(6) jimmy, 10 pts

Combined point standings after three rounds:

(1) 2m, 70 pts
(2) dr goatesauce, 61 pts
(3) d grace, 39 pts
(4) conroy, 32 pts
(5) jimmy, 31 pts
(6) jonny m, 20 pts
(7) kelly flantastic, 19 pts
(8) su track & cc runner whose-name-I-can't-remember, 11 pts
(8) brad, 11 pts

Women's standings after three rounds:

(1) kelly flantastic, 50 pts

Next round: Wednesday, June 2, 9:30 pm!

2010 eccc road survey

If you haven't seen the 2010 ECCC Road Survey results, check them out.

Note that Ship Cycling finished second in the vote for best kits. Awesome. (And congrats to Chop and 2M, who designed them.) The second place finish is all the more noteworthy for our having received more votes than we had voters. (I don't know how many of you voted--if I were to guess, I'd guess zero--but I know it was less than 14.)

And that bit about that UVM guy's road-converted mtb?

Very cool. I'm inspired.

now that's bike racing...

Such an awesome stage of the Giro today. Crazy awesome. Awesome as in I'm awe-struck.

No spoilers... You'll have to watch it. (You really should. At least the last two videos.)

I wish I looked like that at the end of bike races. So awesome...

bit by a racoon

What E would look like if he were riding the Giro. (Focus on the mouth.)

starlight circle race #2 (may 5)

The action was hot at the Cinco de Mayo edition of the Starlight Circle Race last night. Word must be getting out because last night we had spectators. Six of them--five humans and one dog.

The night belonged to 2M. Not wanting to disappoint the crowd, 2M opened fire immediately after the mandated three lap warm-up period. A gap opened and a three-man chase (Brad, Conroy, and the Goater) formed. The gap held at around five to six seconds for most of the race, 2M reasonably motivated to hold his lead and the chase group, slowing dwindling in numbers (Brad was the first to fall off the pace, then Conroy), not super motivated to reel him in.

"Our plan was to let him dangle out there," said a unenthusiastic Goater afterward. "If we caught him within two laps to go that would be perfect. Although we weren't planning on a 'catch,' but blow-right-past humiliation."

But the catch apparently came too soon--with three laps to go--because no one "blew right past" anyone, until the finishing stretch, where a recovered 2M asserted his dominance with a furious finishing sprint and won by two dozen bike lengths.

Results from Round 2:

(1) 2m, 25 pts
(2) dr goatesauce, 20 pts
(3) conroy, 16 pts
(4) d grace, 13 pts
(5) brad, 11 pts
(6) jimmy, 10 pts
(7) kelly flantastic, 9 pts

Women's results:

(1) kelly flantastic, 25 pts

Combined point standings after two rounds:

(1) 2m, 45 pts
(1) dr goatesauce, 45 pts
(3) conroy, 32 pts
(4) d grace, 26 pts
(5) jimmy, 21 pts
(6) kelly flantastic, 19 pts
(7) brad, 11 pts

Women's standings after two rounds:

(1) kelly flantastic, 50 pts

The podium:

The DNF pile (there was something about some stupid track meet):

Two-thirds of our spectators:

See y'all again on the 19th!

Qualified for Nationals!

Mike and I qualified for the nationals road race which is next Friday in Wisconsin. I guess Mike isn't going to make it due to shrinking lungs but I have decided to make the trek instead of walking on graduation. It's a sweet excuse to miss graduation.

Who's pumped for the meeting tomorrow night! and the bike rodeo Friday... SHIP

I remember the results!

I remember the results from the last twilight crit!

Winner: ME (JON M)

I still have the yellow jersey which Dr. Goates needs since he is the current leader. Unless he has a new one because I have it framed in my room with my other leader jerseys. Well it could be in the living room or kitchen, I just have so many framed I can't remember where they all are. It might even be in the bathroom or basement or...

starlight circle race #1 (apr 21)

Shippensburg nighttime racing is back and oh how fun it is. Moonlight. Cool air. Freaky shadows. So much fun.

A few laps in a Mike Maret that had hitherto been uncharacteristically grumpy (even for Mike) rolled up beside me and said something about loving to race at night. I agree.

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Six riders came out for the inaugural race in the 2010 Starlight Circle Race Series, Kelly and Dillon riding the loop for the first time.

We kept it tight for the first several laps, warming up, working on our paceline skillz, until 2M got antsy and shot off the front with an over-the-shoulder look that just dared us to try to keep up.

Things quickly exploded after that. Mike and I traded punches at the front (mostly me attacking every other lap or so and Mike easily keeping on my wheel). Conroy and Dillon worked well together just behind. Jimmy kindly rode clean up (sacrificing himself to clear any stray water bottles or power bars that might have been dislodged in the heat of battle). Meanwhile, Kelly dominated the women's field.

With about five laps to go, Mike caught me napping and got a little gap. I let him keep it, for a lap or so, then charged around him with what I hoped was enough speed that he wouldn't be able to hold my wheel. It worked. I was lucky. (I'm sure he won't let me do it again.) And despite Mike recruiting the help of a lapped Conroy, I held on through the last three laps for the W.

Don't let this old man run away with the thing. That isn't the story you want to tell your kids.

Combined Gender Standings After Round #1:

(1) dr goatesauce, 25 pts
(2) 2m, 20 pts
(3) conroy, 16 pts
(4) d grace, 13 pts
(5) jimmy, 11 pts
(6) kelly flantastic, 10 pts

Women's Standings After Round #1

(1) kelly flantastic, 25 pts

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Note the new scoring scheme. Rather than the Fibonacci sequence deal we used in September, I've elected to use a more traditional points scale which awards points to the top 15 riders (it seems unlikely we'll ever have more than 15 riders) like this: 25, 20, 16, 13, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1.

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By my count there are five riders who wanted to be there who weren't for some reason. If we can get a few non-students there, we could easily be running fields of 12-15.

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I was looking at the standings from the 2009 September Starlight Criterium Series (same course, four rounds) and I'm not sure who came out on top. After three rounds the points looked like this:

(1) Mike Maret, 16.5 pts
(2) goatesauce, 16 pts
(3) Jon Marshall, 13.5 pts
(4) Matt C. (Chop), 11 pts
(5) Matt Conroy, 3 pts
(6) Cody Wertz, 3 pts
(7) Alex Krayo, 1 pt
(8) Kevin Melnick, 1 pt

Does anyone remember how it ended?

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Round #2 of the Starlight Circle Race Series is scheduled for Wednesday, May 5, 9:30 pm. Cinco de Mayo, baby.

That said, if there's interest--especially from the folks who will be leaving us over the summer--to throw in one more round next week, Wednesday, April 28, I'm game.