Metcalf

Week 8 of the 2021 Ultra Low-Key Hillclimb Series

Yassine Kabouzi and Keisuke Otsuka battle it out( Photo by Alexander Komlik )

Special thanks to Edward Miller for proofreading and cross-checking times! And thanks to Alexander Komlik and Keisuke Otsuka for photography and to everyone who contributed photos to the collaborative photo album!

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Congratulations to Jamie Yang Pong and James Nicol for their respective victories on Metcalf! Shout outs to Robin Betz, Keisuke Otsuka, and Yassine Kabouzi for rounding out the podiums

What an exciting week with some cool developments playing out. Great work to Yassine who had his best week yet and battled it out with Keisuke to the finish line separated only by seconds! From the race reports it sounds like there was a game of cat and mouse with Yassine having the upper edge on the steeps and Keisuke on the lesser grades.

In the team competition, Alto Velo returned to the podium and it appears like it will all come down to Hamilton to decide the final sorting order of the teams in the overall. WEDU appears out of reach with 5 rides to count, but the order of 2nd and 3rd is anyone's for the taking.

Next week is our final week and it ends in a traditional format on Hamilton. Some key storylines to pay attention to:

Battle for podium positioning between WEDU, Ebay, SparkEE's and Alto Velo
Jamie and Robin both with only 4 rides currently...must ride for their 5th and final counting ride and the overall win!
James, Keisuke, and Maxine all with only 4 rides and thus riding for the overall win on Hamilton (no rides to drop)
Simon Gog, Michael Ruth and Jeff Irwin looking to complete the 100% Club with no missed weeks

Some other notable events:

Jamie Yang Pong for a top 2 all time Low Key effort on Strava
James Nicol for a top 3 all time Low Key effort on Strava and first place all time in his age group
Shai Traister for overcoming a puncture and not giving up after missing the mass start
Three riders who rode this back in 2008 and again this year..13 years later:
- Christian Paquet who about tied his time last time considering the finish line was in a slightly different place
- Dino Larson who beat his previous time by seconds
- Patrick Callahan who beat his previous time by minutes.. beast mode!

--- Brandon

Results

KOM special mention qualifiers indicated with orange background.

Women

pl # name team cat time date mph fph score

1 58 Jamie Yang Pong eBay 0:14:12 11/20/20 7.27 3980 125.70

2 86 Robin Betz Alto Velo 0:14:47 11/21/20 6.98 3823 120.74

Women
pl	#	name	team	cat	time	date	mph	fph	score
1	58	Jamie Yang Pong	eBay		0:14:12	11/20/20	7.27	3980	125.70
2	86	Robin Betz	Alto Velo		0:14:47	11/21/20	6.98	3823	120.74

100 point reference time for division Women = 0:17:51

Men
pl	#	name	team	cat	time	date	mph	fph	score
1	51	James Nicol	Alto Velo		0:11:16	11/20/21	9.16	5017	131.36
2	46	Keisuke Otsuka	Bumpers Racing from LDV	50+	0:11:27	11/20/21	9.01	4936	129.26
3	13	Yassine Kabouzi	WEDU NorCal	45+	0:11:31	11/20/21	8.96	4908	128.51
4	71	Maxime Cauchois	Stanford		0:11:43	11/21/21	8.81	4824	126.32
5	26	Shai Traister	Squadra Terun		0:11:58	11/20/21	8.62	4723	123.68
6	49	Steven Wu	Alto Velo		0:12:05	11/20/21	8.54	4678	122.48
7	4	Brandon Smith	WEDU NorCal	30+	0:12:19	11/20/21	8.38	4589	120.16
8	14	Bill Laddish	WEDU NorCal	50+	0:12:24	11/20/21	8.32	4558	119.35
9	34	George Wehner	Stanford	U23	0:12:26	11/21/21	8.3	4546	119.03
10	91	Kevin Vander Ende	WEDU NorCal		0:12:29	11/21/21	8.27	4528	118.56
11	93	Noah Young			0:12:38	11/21/21	8.17	4474	117.15
12	54	François-Xavier (FX) Bucher			0:13:10	11/21/21	7.84	4293	112.41
13	47	Simon Gog	eBay		0:14:10	11/20/21	7.28	3990	104.47
14	39	Michael Ruth			0:14:12	11/20/21	7.27	3980	104.23
15	103	Christian Paquet		60+	0:14:16	11/20/21	7.23	3962	103.74
16	83	Dino Larson	The Brown Zone		0:14:17	11/20/21	7.23	3957	103.62
17	17	Kegan Connick	Apple	35+	0:14:19	11/20/21	7.21	3948	103.38
18	2	Andy Crews	Low-Key	50+	0:14:25	11/20/21	7.16	3920	102.66
19	20	Marco Soldano	SparkEEs	M50+	0:15:10	11/20/21	6.8	3727	97.58
20	5	Alexander Komlik	SJBC	55+	0:15:15	11/20/21	6.77	3706	97.05
21	43	Patrick Callahan	Google	50+	0:15:45	11/20/21	6.55	3589	93.97
22	32	Jon Degenhardt	eBay		0:16:19	11/20/21	6.32	3464	90.70
23	50	Robert Carlsen	Apple	40+	0:16:29	11/21/21	6.26	3429	89.79
24	37	Jeff Irwin	Apple	45+	0:16:37	11/20/21	6.21	3401	89.07
25	33	Kevin Cearns	eBay		0:17:13	11/21/21	5.99	3283	85.96
26	65	Larry Klein			0:17:37	11/21/21	5.86	3208	84.01
27	48	Stephen Fong			0:17:50	11/21/21	5.79	3169	82.99
28	35	Mark Lyttle		50+	0:18:30	11/22/21	5.58	3055	80.00
29	75	Mike Heinaman	Bumpers Racing from LDV	40+	0:18:37	11/22/21	5.54	3036	79.50
30	22	Anand Satyamoorthy	SparkEEs		0:18:38	11/21/21	5.54	3033	79.43
31	72	Frank Drobot		70+	0:19:15	11/20/21	5.36	2936	76.88
32	11	Ray Smith	WEDU NorCal	65+	0:19:28	11/20/21	5.3	2903	76.03
33	88	Jerome Thomere	Apple	55+	0:20:22	11/21/21	5.07	2775	72.67
34	44	Bernard Bell			0:20:35	11/20/21	5.01	2746	71.90
35	69	Navdeep Dhanjal		40+	0:25:26	11/21/21	4.06	2222	58.19
36	45	Allen Collins	Netflix	45+	0:25:28	11/20/21	4.05	2219	58.12

100 point reference time for division Men = 0:14:48

Teams
pl	team	score	riders
1	Alto Velo	374.58	Robin Betz, James Nicol, Steven Wu
2	WEDU NorCal	368.02	Yassine Kabouzi, Ray Smith, Brandon Smith, Kevin Vander Ende, Bill Laddish
3	eBay	320.87	Jon Degenhardt, Simon Gog, Kevin Cearns, Jamie Yang Pong
4	Apple	282.24	Kegan Connick, Robert Carlsen, Jeff Irwin, Jerome Thomere
5	Stanford	245.35	Maxime Cauchois, George Wehner
6	Bumpers Racing from LDV	208.76	Keisuke Otsuka, Mike Heinaman
7	SparkEEs	177.01	Anand Satyamoorthy, Marco Soldano
8	Squadra Terun	123.68	Shai Traister
9	The Brown Zone	103.62	Dino Larson
10	Low-Key	102.66	Andy Crews
11	SJBC	97.05	Alexander Komlik
12	Google	93.97	Patrick Callahan
13	Netflix	58.12	Allen Collins

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