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Welch Creek

Week 3 of the 2014 Low-Key Hillclimb Series

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Terrance Kloeckl shows the suffering of Welch Creek Road (Alexander Komlik)
Thanks to coordinator Giles Douglas, with help from Android, Bill Bushnell, Cara Coburn, Gregory Douglas, Stephen Fong, Ryan Gibson, Alexander Komlik, Shannon Madison, Gregory P. Smith, Mihai R, Serge Sailing, Wink Saville, Tom Stanis, and Zach Stanis for making today's climb possible!

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Report

Thanks to the excellent work of coordinator Giles Douglas and Team Google, today's climb of Welch Creek Road was a fantastic Low-Key success!

In the women's field, McLovely Brown and Janet Gardner both beat the Low-Key record set by Lucia Mokres in 2007, Janet finishing ahead of her personal best from 2010 which had been the women's 2nd best time. It was a solid women's turnout on the super-steep Welch Creek climb, Nitzel Hagan wrapping up an even dozen finishers.

In the men's field, it was Sisters and Misters' Hanns Detlefsen who led the group with an amazing 22:23. The top 5 men, including Stefano Profumo, Bill Laddish who remarkably finished with a flat tire, David Collet, and Joseph Sullivan all finished ahead of Brian Lucido's existing course record of 24:08.

Add to this Bill Bushnell crushing his existing course record in the hybrid-electric, and Emma and Jonathan Dixon breaking the existing mixed tandem record of Illeana and Bob Parker, and you can see it was a very fast day.

And it wasn't just the bikes, with Gary taking 5 seconds out of his previous record-setting 2010 run time, making it a clean sweep of course records this year (not counting women's runner, for which we've had no entries). But this time he had competition, with Niall Fitzgerald not only running up the hill, but back down and all the way back to the Sunol school.

On the team side, it was Sister's and Mister's of No Mercy with a remarkable 382 points, led by Hanns, Carl Nielson, and Janet Gardner. The Brown Zone was second with LGBRC third.

In the MegaTeam score (all riders count), Sisters and Misters came up with over 1600 points, almost pulling even with series leader LGBRC in that standing. This was due in part to bringing 6 women to the event.

Also of note was Mark King riding the climb on a single-speed. Oof.

Here's the report from coordinator Giles Douglas of Team Google:

The bay area weather returned to normal for October - ie the forecast rain shockingly didn't appear - for this week's Low Key Hill Climb brought to you by team Google, and an android running around trying to find its ipad. We began the morning with a rollout to the base of Welch Creek road, featuring an audi following the peloton who obeyed the new 3 foot passing law and didn't act at all frustrated. We regrouped at the bottom of the climb with some helpful reminders from people that have ridden the climb before that you want to make sure you are in the small ring!

The prius lead-out vehicle set off with 4 passengers, only just making it to the top a scant 6 minutes in front of Bill Bushnell, whose time of 15:47 easily beat his 2010 time of 19:42. Hanns Detlefsen, the first unpowered rider got to the top at 22:23 - also the new KOM on strava - easily breaking the low key record of 24:08. Whilst the cows at the top eyed the android hungrily (seriously, they couldn't stop looking at it) the rest of the riders trickled up to finish, with a fair few sprints considering the painful grades below. Everyone who started finished the ride, including 2 mystery riders, one of whom got 12th place overall. Special mention to Bill Laddish who finished 3rd despite a flat tire.

Thanks to our volunteer crew, most of whom had been riding low key for some time but never run one of these before, and to the Sunol Glen School district for letting us stage in the elementary school.

Results

KOM special mention qualifiers indicated with orange background.

Women
pl # name team cat time mph fph score
1 34 McLovely Brown The Brown Zone Mother Of Two 27:52 8.40 4020 131.99
2 72 Janet Gardner Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 45+ 29:26 7.95 3806 125.11
3 228 Jennie Phillips Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 50+ 30:33 7.66 3667 120.64
4 138 Amber Schult LGBRC 40+ 30:49 7.59 3635 119.61
5 140 Marty Scott LGBRC 55+ 31:39 7.39 3539 116.53
6 50 Christina Davis LGBRC 45+ 33:13 7.04 3372 111.15
7 311 Holly Harris Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 50+ 34:29 6.79 3249 107.16
8 220 Sandra King Equipe Flamme Rouge 45+ 35:56 6.51 3117 102.93
9 52 Bonnie Denoyer Scott 45+ 37:27 6.25 2991 98.85
10 318 Trish Pacheco Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 45+ 38:29 6.08 2911 96.25
11 60 Lisa Emmerich Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 50+ 41:07 5.69 2724 90.21
12 310 Nitzel Hagan Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 35+ 48:27 4.83 2312 76.83

reference time for division Women = 37:00


Men
pl # name team cat time mph fph score
1 208 Hanns Detlefsen Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 40+ 22:23 10.45 5005 136.13
2 122 Stefano Profumo Squadra SF 35+ 23:17 10.05 4811 130.98
3 99 Bill Laddish Team CVC 35+ 23:25 9.99 4784 130.25M
4 45 David Collet Pen Velo/Pomodoro 40+ 23:28 9.97 4774 129.98
5 149 Joseph Sullivan San Jose Bike Club 35+ 24:05 9.72 4651 126.72
6 316 Carl Nielson Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 55+ 24:13 9.66 4626 126.04
7 61 Chris Evans Squadra SF 2 24:29 9.56 4575 124.70
8 14 Rich McLovin Brown The Brown Zone 35+ 25:03 9.34 4472 121.94
9 109 Shahram Moatazedi LGBRC 40+ 25:12 9.29 4445 121.23
10 211 Robert Easley Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 45+ 25:13 9.28 4442 121.15
11 112 Rob Nast Plus 3 50+ 25:48 9.07 4342 118.47
12 305 Samuel Desré Vikings Junior 26:00 9.00 4308 117.58
13 307 Scott Gammon Nest 6 26:29 8.84 4230 115.48
14 146 Daryl Spano The Brown Zone 45+ 26:33 8.81 4219 115.19
15 87 Joe Karbowski Team Joe Karbowski 35+ 26:38 8.79 4206 114.84
16 90 Glen Kinion Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 50+ 26:39 8.78 4203 114.77
17 29 Jeffrey Baxter LGBRC 45+ 26:43 8.76 4193 114.49
18 16 Joe Fant The Brown Zone 55+ 26:46 8.74 4185 114.28
19 33 Bill Brier Team Fremont FFBC p/b Chipotle 50+ 26:53 8.70 4167 113.79
20 230 Travis Retzer Team CVC 30+ 27:16 8.58 4108 112.23
21 201 Jeff Botelho CA Technologies 45+ 27:20 8.56 4098 111.96
22 321 Jim Torrence Eden Bicycles 50+ 27:23 8.55 4091 111.76
23 78 Rich Hill LGBRC 45+ 27:26 8.53 4083 111.56
24 227 Christian Paquet Doogie 55+ 27:34 8.49 4064 111.03
25 325 Kevin Merrigan Team CVC 45+ 27:37 8.47 4056 110.84
26 75 BIll Harkola Pen Velo/Pomodoro 55+ 27:52 8.40 4020 109.87
27 71 Bruce Gardner Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 35+ 28:01 8.35 3998 109.29
28 312 Zachary Hilton Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 35+ 28:05 8.33 3989 109.04
29 302 Dino Brown The Brown Zone 50+ 28:28 8.22 3935 107.60
30 89 Mark King Equipe Flamme Rouge 45+ 28:32 8.20 3926 107.35
31 308 Parker Gara Vikings Junior 28:40 8.16 3908 106.86
32 315 Paul McKenzie Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 60+ 28:55 8.09 3874 105.96
33 92 Terrance Kloeckl Younger Next Year 50+ 29:21 7.97 3817 104.43
34 129 Doug Reynolds NightRiders 60+ 29:27 7.95 3804 104.08
35 215 Theo Goguely Diablo Cat Off-Season 29:30 7.93 3797 103.91
36 212 Roland Freund Team Plan C 55+ 29:33 7.92 3791 103.74
37 12 Will Von Kaenel LGBRC 55+ 29:42 7.88 3772 103.23
38 320 Kent Slaney Vikings Junior 29:42 7.88 3772 103.23
39 303 Edgar Carvajal Eden Bicycles 5 29:59 7.80 3736 102.27
40 118 Ramon Periquet Team CVC 50+ 30:01 7.80 3732 102.16
41 226 Chris Mickelsen chris mickelsen 55+ 30:02 7.79 3730 102.11
42 205 Phil Clark Google 30+ 30:09 7.76 3715 101.72
43 234 Pritpal Singh KOVARUS 40+ 30:17 7.73 3699 101.28
44 81 Tick Houk The Brown Zone 55+ 30:32 7.66 3669 100.47
45 22 Bruno Acklin Clagnuts 50+ 30:35 7.65 3663 100.31
46 304 Mike Davis LGBRC 45+ 30:42 7.62 3649 99.94
47 117 Frank Paysen Chain Reaction 50+ 31:04 7.53 3606 98.78
48 121 Thomas Preisler San Jose Bike Club 55+ 31:39 7.39 3539 97.00
49 116 Bill P Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 50+ 32:44 7.15 3422 93.86
50 160 Brian Ward Zombie Raccoon 40+ 33:15 7.04 3369 92.43
51 162 Han Wen Grumpy Old Men (GOM) 45+ 33:33 6.97 3339 91.62
52 114 Bart Niechwiej Google 35+ 33:40 6.95 3327 91.31
53 35 Nicholas Brummell Atlas 50+ Slower Than A Turkey 33:50 6.92 3311 90.87
54 139 Jeremy Scott Scott 40+ 34:09 6.85 3280 90.05
55 91 Larry Klein Grumpy Old Men (GOM) 50+ 34:27 6.79 3252 89.28
56 47 Richard Contreras rhus 55+ 35:40 6.56 3141 86.30
57 323 Carl Werner Scott 50+ 35:42 6.55 3138 86.22
58 134 Koushik Sampath LGBRC 25+ 35:44 6.55 3135 86.14
59 83 Brandon Iles DASH 30+ 36:04 6.49 3106 85.36
60 38 Kley Cardona NightRiders 50+ 41:05 5.70 2727 75.15
61 306 Larry Douglas 021 Racing 35+ 42:11 5.55 2656 73.24
62 317 Tom O'Connell 021 Racing Just Make It To The Top 44:05 5.31 2541 70.15
63 209 Yashpaul Singh Dogra Oracle 45+ 45:35 5.13 2457 67.89
64 123 Alec Proudfoot DASH 50+ 51:43 4.52 2166 60.00

M : mishap

reference time for division Men = 30:40


Tandem
pl # name team cat time mph fph score
1 55 Emma Dixon Google 35+ 34:43 6.74 3227 96.71
56 Jonathan Dixon Google 35+


Hybrid Electric
pl # name team cat time mph fph score
1 6 Bill Bushnell Low-Key In Cognito 15:47 14.83 7097 112.65

reference time for division Hybrid Electric = 17:49


Male Runner
pl # name team cat time mph fph score
1 309 Gary Gellin Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy Runner On A Mountain Bike 29:58 7.81 3738 114.32
2 324 Niall Fitzgerald LGBRC 25+ 39:39 5.90 2825 86.93

reference time for division Male Runner = 30:40


Teams
pl team score riders
1 Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy 387.28 Hanns Detlefsen, Carl Nielson, Robert Easley, Glen Kinion, Bruce Gardner, Zachary Hilton, Paul McKenzie, Janet Gardner, Gary Gellin, Jennie Phillips, Bill P, Holly Harris, Trish Pacheco, Lisa Emmerich, Nitzel Hagan
2 The Brown Zone 369.11 Rich McLovin Brown, Daryl Spano, Joe Fant, McLovely Brown, Dino Brown, Tick Houk
3 LGBRC 357.37 Shahram Moatazedi, Jeffrey Baxter, Rich Hill, Will Von Kaenel, Mike Davis, Amber Schult, Marty Scott, Christina Davis, Koushik Sampath, Niall Fitzgerald
4 Team CVC 353.32 Bill Laddish, Travis Retzer, Kevin Merrigan, Ramon Periquet
5 Vikings 327.67 Samuel Desré, Parker Gara, Kent Slaney
6 Google 295.13 Phil Clark, Bart Niechwiej, Emma Dixon, Jonathan Dixon
7 Scott 275.12 Jeremy Scott, Carl Werner, Bonnie Denoyer
8 Squadra SF 255.67 Stefano Profumo, Chris Evans
9 Pen Velo/Pomodoro 239.84 David Collet, BIll Harkola
10 San Jose Bike Club 223.72 Joseph Sullivan, Thomas Preisler
11 Eden Bicycles 214.03 Jim Torrence, Edgar Carvajal
12 Equipe Flamme Rouge 210.28 Mark King, Sandra King
13 Grumpy Old Men (GOM) 180.90 Han Wen, Larry Klein
14 NightRiders 179.24 Doug Reynolds, Kley Cardona
15 DASH 145.37 Brandon Iles, Alec Proudfoot
16 021 Racing 143.38 Larry Douglas, Tom O'Connell
17 Plus 3 118.47 Rob Nast
18 Nest 115.48 Scott Gammon
19 Team Joe Karbowski 114.84 Joe Karbowski
20 Team Fremont FFBC p/b Chipotle 113.79 Bill Brier
21 Low-Key 112.65 Bill Bushnell
22 CA Technologies 111.96 Jeff Botelho
23 Doogie 111.03 Christian Paquet
24 Younger Next Year 104.43 Terrance Kloeckl
25 Diablo 103.91 Theo Goguely
26 Team Plan C 103.74 Roland Freund
27 chris mickelsen 102.11 Chris Mickelsen
28 KOVARUS 101.28 Pritpal Singh
29 Clagnuts 100.31 Bruno Acklin
30 Chain Reaction 98.78 Frank Paysen
31 Zombie Raccoon 92.43 Brian Ward
32 Atlas 90.87 Nicholas Brummell
33 rhus 86.30 Richard Contreras
34 Oracle 67.89 Yashpaul Singh Dogra