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Montebello

Week 1 of the 2014 Low-Key Hillclimb Series

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Beth Reid crushes the 19-year-old Low-Key Montebello record (Alexander Komlik)
Thanks to coordinator James Porter, with help from Sam Beal, Bill Bushnell, Bryn Dole, Tom Everman, Carola F Berger, Janet Gardner, Alexander Komlik, Pat Parseghian, Pom, Carla Rydholm, Eva Silverstein, and Lynn von Kaenel for making today's climb possible!

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Week one of the Low-Key Hillclimbs was a red-hot success, with some spectacular performances. Each year it gets harder to break Low-Key records, each year it gets harder to get Strava KOMs, yet today's climb saw both shattered in both the men's and women's divisions, with 2nd-best-ever times in the hybrid electric and tandem divisions.

Stanford School of Medicine's Nick Bax scored a convincing first in the men's overall, finishing 33 seconds ahead of Chris Phipps' time from 2010. In the women, it was Beth Reid (formerly Beth Heiden) who toppled Laura Stern's 19-year-old record from 1995 by a remarkable 1:40. McLovely Brown, meanwhile, broke her existing Strava QOM to put herself at the top of that list. Beth now holds two Low-Key records for Montebello, also as part of the best-ever mixed tandem result with her husband Russell from 2010.

Bill Bushnell, riding for Western Wheelers this year, took the top spot in the Hybrid Electric standings, putting up the 2nd best time on Low-Key record for hybrid-electric, only the 2nd time the 18-minute barrier has been broken. The top tandem team, Emma and Jonathan Dixon, lead a group of 3 mixed tandems to produce the 2nd best of 15 mixed tandem times on record.

A very solid turn-out of 16 women were led by Beth, McLovely, with Helen Casabona in 3rd. On the men's side, Nick was followed by the Squadra SF pair of Stefano Profumo and Chris Evans, both of whom broke 27 minutes. Our tandem podium included the Dixons at the top spot, Rich and Kim Hill next, and Pat Callahan and Ping Yin next.

One feature of this week's climb was the exceptional heat, resulting in a shattering not only of Low-Key and Strava records for climbing times, but also for water consumption at the finish, where we went through more than double that on a typical Low-Key week. We try to provision for rider needs, but we kindly request riders take what they need for immediate use and for the descent to make sure there's still some for the later finishers.

In the team standings, it was Squadra Ovest to take the top spot for thw week, followed by perennial Low-Key powerhouses The Brown Zone and LGBRC. Toward the overall standings volunteer credits will be counted as riders who volunteered this week climb later in the series.

Thanks to James and to the incredible volunteer crew this week for working so hard to help get Low-Key off to such an amazing start!

This week's climb was a return to "Low-Key" by our friend Adam Tow. See his blog post here!

Results

KOM special mention qualifiers indicated with orange background.

Women
pl # name team cat time mph fph score
1 126 Elizabeth Reid   55+ 30:02 10.59 3876 142.39
2 34 McLovely Brown The Brown Zone Mother Of Two 31:49 9.99 3658 134.24
3 39 Helen Casabona Pen Velo/Pomodoro 50+ 33:45 9.42 3449 126.40
4 140 Marty Scott LGBRC 55+ 34:45 9.15 3350 122.69
5 138 Amber Schult LGBRC 40+ 35:09 9.05 3312 121.26
6 17 Lynn Sestak The Brown Zone 55+ 37:10 8.56 3132 114.55
7 94 Louise Kobin No team 45+ 37:29 8.48 3105 113.56
8 23 Mary Ellen Allen Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 50+++ 37:53 8.39 3073 112.34
9 50 Christina Davis LGBRC 45+ 38:02 8.36 3060 111.88
10 62 Nicole Evans Pen Velo/Pomodoro 30+ 39:06 8.13 2977 108.77
11 142 Ariadne Smith Diablo 25+ 39:40 8.02 2934 107.18
12 41 Beverly Chaney San Jose Bike Club 50+ 39:44 8.00 2930 107.00
13 52 Bonnie Denoyer Scott 45+ 45:05 7.05 2582 94.05
14 60 Lisa Emmerich Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 50+ 48:06 6.61 2420 88.04
15 79 Christine Holmes Low-Key 50+ 57:47 5.50 2014 73.00
16 148 Helena Stolka Low-Key 50+ 57:57 5.49 2009 72.79

reference time for division Women = 42:27


Men
pl # name team cat time mph fph score
1 28 Nick Bax Stanford Cycling Hungover Cat 1 24:59 12.73 4659 141.89
2 122 Stefano Profumo Squadra SF 35+ 26:02 12.22 4471 136.05
3 61 Chris Evans Squadra SF 2 26:45 11.89 4351 132.33
4 99 Bill Laddish Team CVC 35+ 27:35 11.53 4220 128.25
5 149 Joseph Sullivan San Jose Bike Club 35+ 27:39 11.50 4210 127.93
6 43 Frank Clark Undiscovered Country Tours 2 28:30 11.16 4084 124.04
7 14 Rich McLovin Brown The Brown Zone 35+ 28:48 11.04 4042 122.72
8 109 Shahram Moatazedi LGBRC 40+ 28:55 11.00 4025 122.21
9 104 Todd Markelz Google 5 35+ 29:02 10.95 4009 121.71
10 45 David Collet Pen Velo/Pomodoro 40+ 29:29 10.79 3948 119.82
11 49 Andy Crews Diablo 40+ 29:39 10.73 3926 119.13
12 112 Rob Nast Plus 3 50+ 29:40 10.72 3924 119.06
13 87 Joe Karbowski Team Ryan Powell 35+ 29:44 10.70 3915 118.79
14 29 Jeffrey Baxter LGBRC 45+ 29:49 10.67 3904 118.45
15 33 Bill Brier Team Fremont FFBC p/b Chipotle 50+ 29:59 10.61 3882 117.78
16 51 Giel De Nijs Flying Dutchmen 1 30:29 10.43 3818 115.81
17 153 Nils Tikkanen Google LA Face With An Oakland Booty 30:35 10.40 3806 115.42
18 146 Daryl Spano Undiscovered Country Tours 45+ 30:40 10.37 3796 115.10
19 137 Eric Schmidt Google Tech Executive 31:15 10.18 3725 112.91
20 48 Adam Coy Diablo Men 31:18 10.16 3719 112.72
21 63 Tommy Evans Pen Velo/Pomodoro 30+ 31:21 10.14 3713 112.54
22 59 Christopher Elbo Squadra SF 35+ 31:24 10.13 3707 112.35
23 95 Patrick Konsor Unattached 25+ 31:46 10.01 3664 111.03
24 119 Jim Perreira San Jose Bike Club 45+ 31:56 9.96 3645 110.44
25 165 Allen Wulczynski Team Bici 50+ 32:02 9.93 3634 110.09
26 90 Glen Kinion Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 50+ 32:11 9.88 3617 109.56
27 156 Mike Urbina NightRiders 50+ 32:24 9.81 3593 108.82
28 96 Scott Krahn LGBRC 30+ 32:27 9.80 3587 108.64
29 128 Angel Resendez at the moment 5 32:27 9.80 3587 108.64
30 133 Dave Rossow LuxVue-SunPower 45+ 32:29 9.79 3583 108.53
31 16 Joe Fant The Brown Zone 55+ 32:43 9.72 3558 107.74
32 127 Russell Reid   60+ 32:43 9.72 3558 107.74
33 80 Jason Hopkins Team CVC 40+ 32:45 9.71 3554 107.63
34 89 Mark King Equipe Flamme Rouge 45+ 32:48 9.70 3549 107.46
35 71 Bruce Gardner Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 35+ 32:50 9.69 3545 107.35
36 67 Klaus Fleischmann Pen Velo/Pomodoro 45+ 32:54 9.67 3538 107.13
37 101 Robert Lojek Google 35+ 33:02 9.63 3524 106.69
38 84 Peter Ingram Steely Man 55+ 33:26 9.51 3482 105.38
39 125 Matt Redmond Squadra SF U23 33:28 9.50 3478 105.28
40 81 Tick Houk The Brown Zone 55+ 33:40 9.45 3457 104.64
41 75 BIll Harkola Pen Velo/Pomodoro 55+ 33:43 9.43 3452 104.48M
42 18 Giles Douglas Google 40+ 33:44 9.43 3451 104.43
43 129 Doug Reynolds NightRiders 60+ 33:52 9.39 3437 104.01
44 12 Will Von Kaenel LGBRC 55+ 34:01 9.35 3422 103.54
45 22 Bruno Acklin Clagnuts 50+ 34:09 9.31 3408 103.13
46 116 Bill P Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 50+ 34:09 9.31 3408 103.13
47 92 Terrance Kloeckl Younger Next Year 50+ 34:22 9.25 3387 102.46
48 161 Alan Weatherall San Jose Bike Club 45+ 4 34:40 9.17 3358 101.56
49 85 Tim Irvine LGBRC 40+ 35:05 9.06 3318 100.33
50 31 Geoffrey Bower DASH 30+ 35:09 9.05 3312 100.13
51 114 Bart Niechwiej Google 35+ 35:18 9.01 3297 99.70
52 121 Thomas Preisler San Jose Bike Club 55+ 35:25 8.98 3287 99.36
53 102 Zahan Malkani SF2G Not Winning 35:25 8.98 3287 99.36
54 159 David Vrane Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 50+ 35:32 8.95 3276 99.03
55 130 Caleb Richardson Team CVC 30+ 35:38 8.92 3267 98.75
56 118 Ramon Periquet Team CVC 50+ 35:45 8.90 3256 98.42
57 82 Martin Hyland Diablo 55+ 35:56 8.85 3239 97.90
58 25 David Anderson Team Anderson 55+ 36:03 8.82 3229 97.58
59 115 Sani Obhodas the campbell crew 25+ 36:11 8.79 3217 97.21
60 117 Frank Paysen Chain Reaction 50+ 36:18 8.76 3207 96.89
61 64 David Fisch Cycleholics 55+ Cat 4 36:30 8.71 3189 96.35
62 40 Peter Cathcart San Jose Bike Club 50+ 36:33 8.70 3185 96.22
63 110 Ilya Moskovko the campbell crew 25+ 36:50 8.63 3160 95.46
64 66 Andrew Fitzhugh   50+ 36:57 8.61 3150 95.16
65 150 Andy Sutterfield San Jose State University 20+ 37:17 8.53 3122 94.29
66 124 Mihai R. Google 35+ 37:22 8.51 3115 94.07
67 32 Randy Bowman Cycleholics 60+ 37:27 8.49 3108 93.86
68 76 Clay Heberly LGBRC 35+ 38:00 8.37 3063 92.47
69 162 Han Wen Grumpy Old Men (GOM) 45+ 38:06 8.35 3055 92.22
70 160 Brian Ward Zombie Raccoon 40+ 38:34 8.25 3018 91.09
71 91 Larry Klein Grumpy Old Men (GOM) 50+ 38:41 8.22 3009 90.80
72 139 Jeremy Scott Scott 40+ 38:49 8.19 2999 90.49
73 86 Tom Jakaby Buycell 55+ 39:10 8.12 2972 89.66
74 35 Nicholas Brummell Atlas 50+ Slower Than A Turkey 39:21 8.08 2958 89.23
75 120 Ryan Powell Team Joe Karbowski 35+ 39:26 8.06 2952 89.04
76 134 Koushik Sampath LGBRC 25+ 39:28 8.06 2949 88.97
77 65 David Fitch San Jose Bike Club 70+ 39:39 8.02 2936 88.55
78 69 Danny Froeming Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 50+ 39:44 8.00 2930 88.36
79 107 Kristofer McQueen Diablo 40+ 39:53 7.97 2919 88.02
80 136 Drew Schleck Google 4 40:06 7.93 2903 87.53
81 74 Marshall Gusman DASH See What I've Got 40:35 7.84 2868 86.47
82 151 Richard Tasker #FoothillFridays 40+ 40:49 7.79 2852 85.96
83 30 Bernard Bell PBCC 50+ 40:57 7.77 2842 85.68
84 154 Adam Tow Grumpy Old Men (GOM) Infinity 41:13 7.72 2824 85.11
85 111 John Murphy Team CVC 25+ 41:25 7.68 2810 84.69
86 44 Kevin Colagiovanni Team Dud 30+ 41:28 7.67 2807 84.59
87 144 Kevin Smith LGBRC 50+ 41:36 7.64 2798 84.31
88 47 Richard Contreras   55+ 41:56 7.58 2776 83.63
89 145 Ray Smith Team CVC 55+ 42:08 7.55 2763 83.22
90 131 Bruce Roberts Fat City Athletic Club 220 Lb Clydesdale 43:19 7.34 2687 80.90
91 100 Garrett Lau LGBRC 45+ 43:39 7.29 2667 80.27
92 141 Raj Singh Singh Team Bici 50- 43:45 7.27 2661 80.08
93 98 Romain Laboisse Palo Verde Velo 35+ 43:55 7.24 2650 79.77
94 97 Frank Kratzer San Jose Bike Club 50+ 44:03 7.22 2642 79.53
95 83 Brandon Iles DASH 30+ 44:07 7.21 2638 79.40
96 20 SAMIR ABOULHOUDA Western Wheelers Make It To The Top 44:09 7.20 2636 79.34
97 53 Gilles Denoyer Scott 40+ 44:26 7.16 2620 78.83
98 132 Paul Rode LGBRC 35+ 44:37 7.13 2609 78.49
99 36 Scott Byer Google 45+ 44:49 7.10 2597 78.14M
100 27 Christopher Barrett San Jose Bike Club 55+ 44:50 7.09 2596 78.11
101 108 Ed Miller SLACer 70+ 44:54 7.08 2592 77.99
102 58 Pierre Doussiere My LowRacer & myself 50+ 45:46 6.95 2543 76.48
103 24 Rich Allen Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 55+ 45:48 6.94 2541 76.43
104 143 Gregory P Smith Zombie Raccoon Dark Meat & Stuffing 45:58 6.92 2532 76.14
105 103 Thomas Maltbaek Sequoia sempervirens 25+ 46:00 6.91 2530 76.09
106 135 Wink Saville DASH 65+ 46:11 6.89 2520 75.78
107 38 Kley Cardona etc 50+ 46:33 6.83 2501 75.17
108 26 Stephen Anderson Team Fun 20+ 46:34 6.83 2500 75.14
109 68 Stephen Fong Grumpy Old Men (GOM) 45+ 47:55 6.64 2429 72.98
110 70 Al Ghamgosar SELF OVER 40 48:12 6.60 2415 72.54
111 113 Ronald Ng Bike Commuter Cabal 50+ 50:20 6.32 2313 69.41
112 164 Harvey Wolfson Diablo 65+ 51:16 6.20 2270 68.12

M : mishap

reference time for division Men = 35:11


Tandem
pl # name team cat time mph fph score
1 55 Emma Dixon Google 35+ 38:09 8.34 3051 100.90
56 Jonathan Dixon Google 35+
2 77 Kim Hill LGBRC 40+ 42:28 7.49 2741 90.44
78 Rich Hill LGBRC 45+
3 37 Pat Callahan Quadzilla Racing 45+ 62:14 5.11 1870 61.22
167 Ping Yin Quadzilla Racing Trying To Get 100points!


Hybrid Electric
pl # name team cat time mph fph score
1 6 Bill Bushnell Low-Key In Cognito 17:51 17.82 6521 114.89

reference time for division Hybrid Electric = 20:27


Teams
pl team score riders
1 Squadra SF 380.73 Stefano Profumo, Chris Evans, Christopher Elbo, Matt Redmond
2 The Brown Zone 371.51 Rich McLovin Brown, McLovely Brown, Joe Fant, Tick Houk, Lynn Sestak
3 LGBRC 366.16 Shahram Moatazedi, Jeffrey Baxter, Scott Krahn, Will Von Kaenel, Marty Scott, Tim Irvine, Amber Schult, Clay Heberly, Christina Davis, Koushik Sampath, Kevin Smith, Kim Hill, Rich Hill, Garrett Lau, Paul Rode
4 Pen Velo/Pomodoro 358.75 David Collet, Tommy Evans, Klaus Fleischmann, BIll Harkola, Helen Casabona, Nicole Evans
5 Google 350.04 Todd Markelz, Nils Tikkanen, Eric Schmidt, Robert Lojek, Giles Douglas, Bart Niechwiej, Mihai R., Emma Dixon, Jonathan Dixon, Drew Schleck, Scott Byer
6 San Jose Bike Club 345.37 Joseph Sullivan, Jim Perreira, Alan Weatherall, Thomas Preisler, Peter Cathcart, David Fitch, Beverly Chaney, Frank Kratzer, Christopher Barrett
7 Diablo 339.03 Andy Crews, Adam Coy, Martin Hyland, Ariadne Smith, Kristofer McQueen, Harvey Wolfson
8 Team CVC 334.62 Bill Laddish, Jason Hopkins, Caleb Richardson, Ramon Periquet, John Murphy, Ray Smith
9 Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 329.25 Glen Kinion, Bruce Gardner, Bill P, David Vrane, Mary Ellen Allen, Danny Froeming, Rich Allen, Lisa Emmerich
10 Grumpy Old Men (GOM) 268.14 Han Wen, Larry Klein, Adam Tow, Stephen Fong
11 DASH 266.00 Geoffrey Bower, Marshall Gusman, Brandon Iles, Wink Saville
12 Scott 263.36 Jeremy Scott, Gilles Denoyer, Bonnie Denoyer
13 Low-Key 260.69 Bill Bushnell, Christine Holmes, Helena Stolka
14 Undiscovered Country Tours 239.14 Frank Clark, Daryl Spano
15 NightRiders 212.82 Mike Urbina, Doug Reynolds
16 the campbell crew 192.68 Sani Obhodas, Ilya Moskovko
17 Cycleholics 190.21 David Fisch, Randy Bowman
18 Team Bici 190.17 Allen Wulczynski, Raj Singh Singh
19 Zombie Raccoon 167.23 Brian Ward, Gregory P Smith
20 Stanford Cycling 141.89 Nick Bax
21 Quadzilla Racing 122.45 Pat Callahan, Ping Yin
22 Plus 3 119.06 Rob Nast
23 Team Ryan Powell 118.79 Joe Karbowski
24 Team Fremont FFBC p/b Chipotle 117.78 Bill Brier
25 Flying Dutchmen 115.81 Giel De Nijs
26 No team 113.56 Louise Kobin
27 Unattached 111.03 Patrick Konsor
28 at the moment 108.64 Angel Resendez
29 LuxVue-SunPower 108.53 Dave Rossow
30 Equipe Flamme Rouge 107.46 Mark King
31 Steely Man 105.38 Peter Ingram
32 Clagnuts 103.13 Bruno Acklin
33 Younger Next Year 102.46 Terrance Kloeckl
34 SF2G 99.36 Zahan Malkani
35 Team Anderson 97.58 David Anderson
36 Chain Reaction 96.89 Frank Paysen
37 San Jose State University 94.29 Andy Sutterfield
38 Buycell 89.66 Tom Jakaby
39 Atlas 89.23 Nicholas Brummell
40 Team Joe Karbowski 89.04 Ryan Powell
41 #FoothillFridays 85.96 Richard Tasker
42 PBCC 85.68 Bernard Bell
43 Team Dud 84.59 Kevin Colagiovanni
44 Fat City Athletic Club 80.90 Bruce Roberts
45 Palo Verde Velo 79.77 Romain Laboisse
46 Western Wheelers 79.34 SAMIR ABOULHOUDA
47 SLACer 77.99 Ed Miller
48 My LowRacer & myself 76.48 Pierre Doussiere
49 Sequoia sempervirens 76.09 Thomas Maltbaek
50 etc 75.17 Kley Cardona
51 Team Fun 75.14 Stephen Anderson
52 SELF 72.54 Al Ghamgosar
53 Bike Commuter Cabal 69.41 Ronald Ng