Week 5: 10km ITT Hosted by Speed Theory

Regular WNS Race and Cycling Qualifier for Alberta 55 Plus Games Hosted by Speed Theory

AS A CLARIFICATION WE WILL TRY TO GET THE WNS RACE UNDERWAY AT 6:30, THE ALBERTA 55 PLUS QUALIFIER WILL START AT 7:00. SO IF YOU CAN SHOW UP AND REGISTER BEFORE 6:30 THAT WOULD BE GREAT. YOU MIGHT WANT TO PARK IN MILLARVILLE AND RIDE OUT TO THE START FOR A WARM UP ALTHOUGH THERE IS SOME PARKING AT THE RACE START. THE PREDICTED TIME EVENT IS ONLY FOR THE QUALIFIER AND THE UCI RULES ARE ONLY FOR THE QUALIFIER. THIS WILL BE A REALLY SHORT RACE FOR YOU SO GO HARD FROM THE START. WE NEED SOMEONE TO AVERAGE 45 KMH - IT CAN BE DONE. WE NEED A FEW VOLUNTEERS AS WELL.
As part of the Wednesday Night Series, Speed Theory will host the cycling qualifier for the Alberta 55 Plus Games on Wednesday, June 1st, 2011. The format for both is a 10 km individual time trial or a 10 km predicted time event. Racers from throughout central and southern Alberta will compete for 7 slots for the Alberta 55+ Games to be held in Fairview on July 21 and 22, 2011.

We are finally going to use the awesome Highway 549 starting near the gas plant 10 km west of Millarville, at the intersection of Highway 762. It should be a fast downhill, downwind sprint. Here is a map

The ABA website has links to the event details and rules, here is the qualifier information. More details will be posted closer to the event. We have to be a little more formal for this event, 6:30 PM on site registration, 7:00 PM race start. Racers will depart at 1 minute intervals. This is a sanctioned event so leave your Shiv at home. Your equipment will have to comply with UCI rules. We will make the call for volunteers later but we will need a few for this event.

Goes without saying you have to be at least 55 years of age by December 31, 2011 to enter the qualifier but you can still do the WNS race if you don't meet that standard. I think there's a few Speed Theory and Crankmasters of that vintage, lets see who can dominate!

Tonight's race cancelled (May 25)

We have decided to cancel the race tonight. The conditions are not great for rider and volunteer safety so we will postpone the Team Road Race to another week

Status of Tonight's race

We will make the call on tonight's race late this afternoon. Currently the forecast doesn't look good for holding the race. If someone is in the south late this afternoon please post the current weather conditions or email me at mperry.c4@gmail.com .

Thanks,
Mark

Week 4: Team Road Race (39km)

For week four of the 2011 Wednesday Night Series we will return to the Priddis meeting spot at the corner of Highways 22 and 22X. This is the same place we met two weeks ago for the road race. The course will be quite different, we will start on highway 22x (Spruce Meadows Trail) and ride East to 37th Street (Highway 773) and turn South. At Township road 221 (still Highway 773) turn right. Continue West on Township road 221 until it bends left and turns into Rand Road 21A. Stay on this road for several bends and it will turn to Township road 214. When you reach highway 22 turn right and head north for approximately 7km to the finish line at the observatory just before the parking lot.

The race format will be the ever popular team race. In this, we divide the riders into a fairly evenly mixed few teams and assign them the task of getting the bulk of their team over the line before the other teams. In other words, it's not which team can get one rider over first but rather who can get the rest of their riders over before the other teams. We've run these before and they have proven quite popular and a great exercise in working together, communication, and tactics as the teams work amongst themselves and against the other teams. We'll set the number of riders on a team and the number of teams once we get an idea of the total number of riders that we'll have out for the evening. This is a race for everyone, regardless of ability, and a great experience. This is good opportunity for experienced racers to work on their race strategy and novice racers to learn about race strategy.

If everyone can register by 6:30. I'll split everyone into teams and we should be able to start the race around 6:40.

As always, we can use a few volunteers for this event to help at the corners and at the finish line.

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Week 3 Team TT results

The hurricane force winds stayed away this past Wednesday for the Springbank 2up Team TT. 36 riders were paired up into teams of two. They attempted to ride the challenging 16km Springbank course together.

Thank you to the volunteers Callum, Mike, Lewis, Caesar and Andreas who made the course safer for the racers and easier to navigate.

Week 3: 2up Team Time Trial (Full Aero)

Week three of the Crankmasters' WNS race series takes up to Spingbank on the west side of the city. Select a partner to race with or one will be assigned (from the same category). If you want to race with someone in a different category you will be racing in the higher category.

We will stage in the parking lot at Springbank Community High School/Arena at 32226 Springbank Road. The first pair will start at 6:30

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The course starts eastbound on Springbank Road heading back towards Calgary. A right turn not that far along onto Range Road 32 takes you due South all the way past Lower Springbank Road to a big turnaround at the end of the road as you approach the river. Back up Range Road 32 to Springbank Road and a right turn taking you east again towards Calgary. You then turn right on Horizon View Road to Lower Springbank Road where you turn right and head out west along Lower Springbank. Finally, a turn north on to Range Road 32 again and the finish along 32 a short time later.
The course should be self-explanatory, if we have at least four to five volunteers for the corners.

Record Turnout for first WNS Road Race of the season

The first 20C plus day in Calgary brought out 65 riders for the first road race of the season.

Unfortunately we had one rider crash. The injured rider driven home by race volunteers later checked out at hospital and expects to resume riding within a few days. Due to the crash in the B group this race was neutralized since some riders stopped to assist. All riders who were behind the crash will receive the same finish time and order.

It was very difficult keeping track of the finish order since there were so many riders and people from a couple of groups were mixed together. If this attendance continues we'll have to try something different at the finish line. We seemed to miss the information for a few people at the finish line. For some reason not everyone was on the start list. If you can fill in any information or find errors in the results please email me at mperry.c4@gmail.com

Thanks again to the volunteers, without them this race wouldn’t be possible.

WNS Membership Requirements

Please be sure you are a Crankmasters primary or secondary member prior to the next WNS race. Our insurance agreement with the ABA allows us to ONLY put on these types of events if ALL participants are members of the club.
We will be downloading the club membership Tuesday evening. If you are not on the list you will not be allowed to race unless you can provide proof you are a Crankmasters club member.

Thank you,
Calgary Crankmasters Cycling Club Executive

Road Race in the South West

We will be using the Millarville loop for the first road race of the season. This has become a favorite course for many riders due to the light traffic, exceptional scenery and variety of terrain.

The race starts at the parking lot at the intersection of Highways 22x and 22 near Priddis. Racers ride south on Highway 22, West (right) on Highway 549 past Millarville, North (right) on 240 St. W, East (right) on Plummers Road which turns north into 240 St, East (right) on the second part of Plummers Road and ends just before Highway 22.

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Category A and B will be doing two loops of the course (52km). Category C will ride one loop (29km). To be sure everyone finishes in the daylight Group A will start at 6:30, B at 6:35 and C at 6:40.

The course is overall in good condition. Most of the holes in 240 Street have been filled except a few smaller ones on the downhill before Plummers Road.

We will require at least three volunteers for this race. To signup to volunteer click here

Week 1 Results by Category (Updated)

Here are the results by initial category. We will be moving people between categories throughout the race series. If you feel you are in the incorrect category please let me know.

And now the results... (updated-again)

We had close to a record number of people for the first race of the season. The riders were treated to decent weather and challenging winds.
Trev, Thomas and Dennis all from Speed Theory had the fastest times of the night. Karel, Callum and Brian were the fasted Crankmasters.



Please email me at mperry.c4@gmail.com if you find any errors in the results. Thanks to Trev for providing a couple of missing finishing times. I will be breaking down the results into A, B and C groups in the next couple of days.

Thank you to Glenn and Clarence for volunteering this evening.

Next week will be a road race starting at the Priddis Meeting Place (Highway 22 and 22x) SW of Calgary. Several volunteers will be required for this event.