Ore Digger Classic Lookout Mountain Hill Climb TT March 17
Lookout Mountain Hill Climb is an extremely popular ride that heads west straight out of Golden Colorado. This road is steeper than your typical canyon road with grades around 5-6% and gives the rider spectacular views back onto the Colorado Front Range including the Denver skyline. As an individual time trial course there is not much chance to enjoy the view until the race is over and you are coasting back down hill. While never extremely steep the 4.4 mile course with 1228feet of elevation gain keeps your attention, your legs working and lungs breathing hard.
Saturday morning 260 racers participated in the junior, senior and masters categories in support of the collegiate race that began at noon. Each collegiate team sponsors a race and the non-colligate races are a way for those teams to raise dollars in support of their racing programs. This makes these races a win for all cycling as well as a great way to test your early season fitness.
Mix1 masters cycling team had superb day with two wins, Matt Gates 35+ and Steve Matous 55+, and two more podiums, Bill Stalhuth 2nd in 45+ and Matt Segur 3rd in 35+. Matt Segur’s podium place was especially impressive as it was done with cracked ribs and road rash still present after an unfortunate crash in the Pro, 1, 2 race at the Stazio crit earlier in the month. Stephen Birnbaum rounded out the Mix1 field and had an incredible finish, 14th out of 31 competitors, for one who is calls himself “vertically challenged”. All fields were very competitive as the hill climbers came out to test early season strength and resolve.
San Dimas stage race California and DU criterium City Park Colorado
Mix1 also had a team mate racing in California this weekend at the San Dimas stage race. Racing on his own without any other team support, Peter Ismert has battled well against the locals who are already months into their race season. Although no podiums Peter did manage 14th in the uphill TT and 9th place in the circuit race which started with 62 racers and end with only 37 finishers. You know it was a fast and hard fought race to have so many DNF’s. The final criterium results from today were not yet posted as of this writing.
Another collegiate race sponsored by DU held a Pro, 1, 2 crit race today at City Park in Denver. Three Mix1 riders; CJ Gauss, Michael Burton and Jim Thies (all 35+ masters racers), went up against a strong field and howling wind making for a fast hard race and trying conditions. At the end of the day Jim was our best placed finisher taking 8th.
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