Eric Wohlberg crosses the finish line ahead of volunteer Carol Ordemann (Bill Bushnell) |
Series leaders Bill Laddish (r) and Stefano Profumo (l) cross the line. Bill Bushnell photo. |
2015 has been a year of remarkably good Low-Key weather even by Low-Key standards, with not even the threat of rain any week this series. And while Thanksgiving presented Low-Keyers with crystal-clear skies and remarkable views, at the summit cycling computers were showing 0C/32F; the lowest temperatures yet in Low-Key history, colder even than 2010. But with the sunshine and moderate winds, it was still a fine day for climbing, if a somewhat chilly one for descending, at least to the bridge 7 miles from the summit.
More than a few riders were apparently deterred by the cold, however, as the Low-Key field was clearly attenuated from Thanksgivings past. Consistent with the rest of 2015, however, there were still plenty of super-fast men and women in attendance: the competition was top-notch.
In the men's race, Zachary Ulissi went off the front first on the initial climb until he was caught just before the second, then again at soon after the start of the third until getting five kilometers later with five to go. Zack eventually faded from the top three as a persistent Chris Evans and a strong Blaise Hamel were able to drop him in the final 2 km. But it was Canada's Eric Wohlberg who was able to reach the summit first. Eric's been doing Low-Key Hamilton since 2010, in the midst of the battle every year, and also winning in 2013.
In the women's competition it was Katy Giles ignoring the cold to finish in a super strong time, with Ivy Wang, Shaena Berlin of MIT-West finishing an excellent third.
The top tandem today was Paul McKenzie and Susan Schroer ahead of second place Emma and Jonathan Dixon. And the top hybrid-electric rider was Bill Bushnell, Bill breaking the hour with his time of 54:58.
These were the fastest riders of the day, but everyone who rode today deserves kudos. It took a healthy dose of confidence to ride to the summit in the unusually cold conditions, facing the potential risk of ice on the descents along the way, but additionally the risk of the cold on the long descent back from the top. Fortunately Low-Key always carries jackets, etc, to the top for riders, something not every hill climb does even today, and that service was well-taken-advantage-of. But still sweaty from the hard effort to reach the summit, depleted by the over an hour of work, it's easy to become chilled.
Special thanks today for our coordinator Kevin Winterfield and volunteers Carola Berger, Pat Parseghian, Carol Ordemann, Bill Bushnell, and Stephan Fong. For them it's an even longer day than it is for many of the riders. They are the true Low-Key heros of this Thanksgiving.
KOM special mention qualifiers indicated with orange background.
pl | # | name | team | cat | time | mph | fph | score |
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1 | 952 | Katy Giles | Art's Cyclery | 1 | 87:06 | 12.68 | 3030 | 129.52 |
2 | 938 | Ivy Wang | 89:59 | 12.27 | 2933 | 125.25 | ||
3 | 401 | Shaena Berlin | MIT-West | 2 | 90:13 | 12.24 | 2926 | 124.92 |
4 | 43 | Sindy Cho | Low-Key | Just Make It To The Top | 90:43 | 12.17 | 2909 | 124.21 |
5 | 916 | Ginger Kroft | San Jose Bike Club | 40+ | 99:22 | 11.11 | 2656 | 113.10 |
6 | 22 | Mary Ellen Allen | Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy | 50+++ | 104:01 | 10.61 | 2537 | 107.90 |
7 | 17 | Lynn Sestak | LGBRC | 55+ | 104:51 | 10.53 | 2517 | 107.02 |
8 | 231 | Diniana Piekutowski | Stanford Cycling | 3.14+ 1 | 107:17 | 10.29 | 2460 | 104.52 |
9 | 221 | Christina King | Team CVC | 45+ | 112:47 | 9.79 | 2340 | 99.28 |
10 | 37 | Kathleen Camp | LGBRC | 30+ | 114:26 | 9.65 | 2306 | 97.81 |
11 | 249 | Dan Zhang | Team Cycling Panda | 35+ | 121:52 | 9.06 | 2166 | 91.68 |
12 | 935 | Louise Wholey | wholey | Just Make It To The Top | 178:09 | 6.20 | 1482 | 62.03 |
100 point reference time for division Women = 111:59
pl | # | name | team | cat | time | mph | fph | score |
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1 | 936 | Eric Wohlberg | independant | 50+ | 73:41 | 14.98 | 3582 | 126.85 |
2 | 603 | Blaise Hamel | Stanford & Sons | 3 | 73:54 | 14.94 | 3572 | 126.46 |
3 | 62 | Chris Evans | Stanford & Sons | 35+ | 74:00 | 14.92 | 3567 | 126.29 |
4 | 420 | Zachary Ulissi | Stanford & Sons | 2 | 74:34 | 14.81 | 3540 | 125.30 |
5 | 126 | Stefano Profumo | Squadra SF | 35+ | 75:51 | 14.56 | 3480 | 123.12 |
6 | 90 | Bill Laddish | Team CVC | 45's | 75:51 | 14.56 | 3480 | 123.12 |
7 | 951 | Scott Giles | Art's Cyclery | 1 | 75:52 | 14.55 | 3479 | 123.09 |
8 | 212 | Robert Easley | Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy | 45+ | 77:26 | 14.26 | 3409 | 120.53 |
9 | 931 | Juan Vasquez | San Jose Bike Club | 40+ | 77:39 | 14.22 | 3399 | 120.18 |
10 | 71 | Scott Gammon | Legendary | 6 | 78:05 | 14.14 | 3380 | 119.50 |
11 | 232 | Alex Poloziouk | Kovarus | 40+ | 78:30 | 14.06 | 3362 | 118.85 |
12 | 149 | Joseph Sullivan | San Jose Bike Club | 35+ | 79:28 | 13.89 | 3321 | 117.36 |
13 | 914 | Jason Kangas | Team Trail Head Cyclery | 35+ | 80:19 | 13.75 | 3286 | 116.08 |
14 | 918 | Greg McCullough | SVCS Specialized | 2 | 80:30 | 13.71 | 3279 | 115.81 |
15 | 39 | Paul Castonguay | Low-Key | 45+ | 83:33 | 13.21 | 3159 | 111.46 |
16 | 16 | Joe Fant | LGBRC | 55+ | 83:48 | 13.17 | 3150 | 111.12 |
17 | 910 | Cesar Guillen | Evergreen | 40+ | 84:28 | 13.07 | 3125 | 110.22 |
18 | 933 | Conan Wen | Team Wheelsuckers | Junior | 84:29 | 13.07 | 3124 | 110.20 |
19 | 153 | Nils Tikkanen | Bike Trip | Thankful | 84:41 | 13.04 | 3117 | 109.93 |
20 | 222 | Alexander Komlik | San Jose Bike Club | 50+ | 84:49 | 13.02 | 3112 | 109.75 |
21 | 119 | Jim Perreira | San Jose Bike Club | 45+ | 86:50 | 12.71 | 3040 | 107.13 |
22 | 927 | Mike Scaglione | San Jose Bike Club | 50+ | 87:10 | 12.67 | 3028 | 106.71 |
23 | 20 | Bruno Acklin | Clagnuts | 55+ | 87:24 | 12.63 | 3020 | 106.41 |
24 | 150 | Andy Sutterfield | San Jose State University | 25+ | 87:29 | 12.62 | 3017 | 106.31 |
25 | 612 | Matt Wocasek | Team Spokesman | 50+ | 87:38 | 12.60 | 3012 | 106.12 |
26 | 415 | Christian Paquet | Grumpy Old Men (GOM) | 55+ | 87:47 | 12.58 | 3007 | 105.94 |
27 | 807 | Jarno Rajahalme | Pen Velo/Pomodoro | 45+ | 89:04 | 12.40 | 2963 | 104.37 |
28 | 906 | Steve Fielding | Icee | 45+ | 89:53 | 12.28 | 2936 | 103.39 |
29 | 922 | John Pidoli | Unattached | 50+ | 90:03 | 12.26 | 2931 | 103.19 |
30 | 304 | George Janour | Team Spokesman Santa Cruz | 45+ | 92:47 | 11.90 | 2845 | 100.07 |
31 | 309 | Scott Martin | Team Spokesman | 55+ | 95:19 | 11.58 | 2769 | 97.33 |
32 | 928 | Eric Schmidt | Chairman | 95:58 | 11.50 | 2750 | 96.66 | |
33 | 930 | Jeff Shute | 35+ | 96:27 | 11.45 | 2737 | 96.16 | |
34 | 116 | Frank Paysen | Chain Reaction | 55+ | 96:29 | 11.44 | 2736 | 96.12 |
35 | 939 | Stathy Touloumis | 35+ | 98:00 | 11.27 | 2693 | 94.59 | |
36 | 213 | Rick Ferrell | Team Spokesman | 55+ | 98:03 | 11.26 | 2692 | 94.54 |
37 | 950 | Javier Antonio | 98:29 | 11.21 | 2680 | 94.12 | ||
38 | 113 | Bill P | Clagnuts | 6 | 98:30 | 11.21 | 2680 | 94.10 |
39 | 156 | Alan Weatherall | San Jose Bike Club | 50+ | 98:34 | 11.20 | 2678 | 94.03 |
40 | 416 | Matt Redmond | MIT-West | ;DROP TABLE 'scores' -- | 99:06 | 11.14 | 2663 | 93.51 |
41 | 902 | James Chang | Team Cycling Panda | 45+ | 100:31 | 10.98 | 2626 | 92.16 |
42 | 87 | Larry Klein | Grumpy Old Men (GOM) | 55+ | 100:45 | 10.96 | 2620 | 91.94 |
43 | 69 | Brad Fox | LGBRC | 30+ | 101:11 | 10.91 | 2609 | 91.53 |
44 | 701 | Mark Anderson | Bad Pacing | Unworthy Cat3 | 101:33 | 10.87 | 2599 | 91.19 |
45 | 170 | Christoph Erben | LGBRC | 45+ | 101:42 | 10.86 | 2595 | 91.05 |
46 | 925 | James Rainbow | Pen Velo/Pomodoro | 35+ | 101:52 | 10.84 | 2591 | 90.90 |
47 | 909 | Lyubomir Grigorov | Riders only | 20+ | 102:08 | 10.81 | 2584 | 90.66 |
48 | 244 | Bernardo Tapia | Stanford Cycling | 40+ | 102:19 | 10.79 | 2580 | 90.49 |
49 | 310 | Eric Nehrlich | Slow-Poke | 102:45 | 10.74 | 2569 | 90.10 | |
50 | 250 | Ye Zhang | Team Cycling Panda | Just Make It To The Top | 102:51 | 10.73 | 2566 | 90.01 |
51 | 201 | Nigel Allen | Oso | 40+ | 103:34 | 10.66 | 2549 | 89.37 |
52 | 218 | David Kelly | Team Kelly | Out Of Shape Dads | 104:14 | 10.59 | 2532 | 88.78 |
53 | 133 | Cory Roay | Pen Velo/Pomodoro | 55+ | 104:22 | 10.58 | 2529 | 88.66 |
54 | 85 | Rupesh Kapoor | Slightly Old | 107:17 | 10.29 | 2460 | 86.18 | |
55 | 223 | Pavel Krivenko | Stanford Cycling | Group 5 | 108:09 | 10.21 | 2440 | 85.47 |
56 | 125 | Thomas Preisler | LGBRC | 60+ | 108:13 | 10.20 | 2439 | 85.42 |
57 | 65 | Andrew Fitzhugh | Stanford Cycling | 50+ | 108:18 | 10.19 | 2437 | 85.35 |
58 | 205 | Peter Cathcart | San Jose Bike Club | 55+ | 110:22 | 10.00 | 2391 | 83.71 |
59 | 158 | Han Wen | Grumpy Old Men (GOM) | 45+ | 112:05 | 9.85 | 2355 | 82.39 |
60 | 33 | Nicholas Brummell | Atlas | 50+ And Broken | 113:36 | 9.72 | 2323 | 81.26 |
61 | 917 | Bing Liu | Team Cycling Panda | 60+ | 113:43 | 9.71 | 2321 | 81.17 |
62 | 912 | Joel Headley | 35+ | 114:21 | 9.65 | 2308 | 80.71 | |
63 | 29 | Bernard Bell | PBCC | 55+ | 116:30 | 9.48 | 2266 | 79.18 |
64 | 901 | Sam Burnett | SF2G | Just Make It To The Starting Line On Time | 119:01 | 9.28 | 2218 | 77.46 |
65 | 915 | Norbert Kappel | San Jose Bike Club | 55+ | 120:11 | 9.19 | 2196 | 76.68 |
66 | 913 | Isaac Hong | Team Wheelsuckers | Junior | 120:33 | 9.16 | 2189 | 76.44 |
67 | 23 | Richard Allen | Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy | 55+ | 121:26 | 9.09 | 2174 | 75.87 |
68 | 137 | David Salazar | Stanford Cycling | 25+ | 128:19 | 8.60 | 2057 | 71.69 |
69 | 937 | Weiyi Zheng | Team Cycling Panda | Just Make It To The Top | 133:37 | 8.26 | 1975 | 68.76 |
70 | 908 | Johnny Gossett | Team ? what team | Get To The TOP | 139:54 | 7.89 | 1887 | 65.59 |
71 | 934 | James Wholey | wholey | Just Make It To The Top | 182:11 | 6.06 | 1449 | 49.99 |
100 point reference time for division Men = 92:50
pl | # | name | team | cat | time | mph | fph | score |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 101 | Paul McKenzie | Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy | 60+ | 96:31 | 11.44 | 2735 | 106.31 |
929 | Sarah Schroer | Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy | 40+ | |||||
2 | 55 | Emma Dixon | 35+ | 99:57 | 11.05 | 2641 | 102.56 | |
56 | Jonathan Dixon | 35+ |
pl | # | name | team | cat | time | mph | fph | score |
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1 | 6 | Bill Bushnell | Low-Key | Recumbent | 54:58 | 20.08 | 4802 | 98.10 |
100 point reference time for division Hybrid Electric = 53:56
pl | team | score | riders |
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1 | Stanford & Sons | 378.05 | Blaise Hamel, Chris Evans, Zachary Ulissi |
2 | San Jose Bike Club | 350.64 | Juan Vasquez, Joseph Sullivan, Alexander Komlik, Jim Perreira, Mike Scaglione, Alan Weatherall, Ginger Kroft, Peter Cathcart, Norbert Kappel |
3 | Sr's & Mr's of No Mercy | 334.74 | Robert Easley, Paul McKenzie, Sarah Schroer, Mary Ellen Allen, Richard Allen |
4 | Low-Key | 333.76 | Bill Bushnell, Paul Castonguay, Sindy Cho |
5 | LGBRC | 315.95 | Joe Fant, Brad Fox, Christoph Erben, Lynn Sestak, Thomas Preisler, Kathleen Camp |
6 | 301.77 | Eric Schmidt, Jeff Shute, Emma Dixon, Jonathan Dixon, Eric Nehrlich, Rupesh Kapoor, Joel Headley | |
7 | Team Spokesman | 298.00 | Matt Wocasek, Scott Martin, Rick Ferrell |
8 | Pen Velo/Pomodoro | 283.93 | Jarno Rajahalme, James Rainbow, Cory Roay |
9 | Stanford Cycling | 280.49 | Bernardo Tapia, Diniana Piekutowski, Pavel Krivenko, Andrew Fitzhugh, David Salazar |
10 | Grumpy Old Men (GOM) | 280.26 | Christian Paquet, Larry Klein, Han Wen |
11 | Team Cycling Panda | 273.84 | James Chang, Ye Zhang, Bing Liu, Dan Zhang, Weiyi Zheng |
12 | Art's Cyclery | 252.61 | Scott Giles, Katy Giles |
13 | Team CVC | 222.40 | Bill Laddish, Christina King |
14 | MIT-West | 218.43 | Shaena Berlin, Matt Redmond |
15 | Clagnuts | 200.51 | Bruno Acklin, Bill P |
16 | Team Wheelsuckers | 186.64 | Conan Wen, Isaac Hong |
17 | independant | 126.85 | Eric Wohlberg |
18 | Squadra SF | 123.12 | Stefano Profumo |
19 | Legendary | 119.50 | Scott Gammon |
20 | Kovarus | 118.85 | Alex Poloziouk |
21 | Team Trail Head Cyclery | 116.08 | Jason Kangas |
22 | SVCS Specialized | 115.81 | Greg McCullough |
23 | wholey | 112.02 | Louise Wholey, James Wholey |
24 | Evergreen | 110.22 | Cesar Guillen |
25 | Bike Trip | 109.93 | Nils Tikkanen |
26 | San Jose State University | 106.31 | Andy Sutterfield |
27 | Icee | 103.39 | Steve Fielding |
28 | Unattached | 103.19 | John Pidoli |
29 | Team Spokesman Santa Cruz | 100.07 | George Janour |
30 | Chain Reaction | 96.12 | Frank Paysen |
31 | Bad Pacing | 91.19 | Mark Anderson |
32 | Riders only | 90.66 | Lyubomir Grigorov |
33 | Oso | 89.37 | Nigel Allen |
34 | Team Kelly | 88.78 | David Kelly |
35 | Atlas | 81.26 | Nicholas Brummell |
36 | PBCC | 79.18 | Bernard Bell |
37 | SF2G | 77.46 | Sam Burnett |
38 | Team ? what team | 65.59 | Johnny Gossett |