2023 Ultra Low-Key Hillclimbs

Week 1 Results

Montebello

...The tradition continues...

Photos

Hong Quan and Wes Choy pushing strong in the wet! Photo credit Tim Wong

Report

Here we go again! 2023 is off with a bang. We had over 110 riders show up to climb Montebello, which is huge considering we saw some early season bad weather.

Congrats to Alex Wild on the men's side, who posted an astonishing 23:46 (the second fastest time on Strava). Grant Miller and Andrew Ernst each got to enjoy the top spot for a day, but ultimately ended up in 2nd and 3rd.

On the women's side, Louise Thomas just edged out Anna Guzman for the two fastest women's times for 2023! Lily Sanders rounds out the women's podium.

The Palo Alto area was representing for the Teams competition. Alto Velo, Pen Velo, and a newly well-represented Stanford Cycling made up the team podium.

Team participation was very high. Once again, Alto Velo had the biggest turnout with 10 riders, but they were followed close behind by Lanterne Rouge and Partners in Climb. As a reminder, team scores are calculated by adding the top 3 scores from the team for the week. So smaller teams definitely stand a chance!

Note: there may be some discrepancies between scores shown here and the overall scores, as there were some late registrations. The overall results are considered the official version.

Individual Women

Median: 0:49:31

Place	Name	Team	Date	Time	Score
1	Louise Thomas	Alto Velo	9/30	0:34:34	143.25
2	Anna Guzman		9/29	0:34:48	142.29
3	Lily Sanders		10/01	0:36:37	135.23
4	Claire MacDougall	Stanford Cycling	9/30	0:37:20	132.63
5	Yvonne Walbroehl	Pen Velo	9/30	0:39:30	125.36
6	Janet Gardner		10/01	0:40:20	122.77
7	Sonia Martin		9/30	0:41:22	119.70
8	Julia Sparrow	Partners in Climb	9/30	0:41:26	119.51
9	Suzanne Farrell		10/01	0:41:30	119.32
10	Kastania Dahlen		9/29	0:44:44	110.69
11	Ilse Pollet	Partners in Climb	10/01	0:46:13	107.14
12	Stephanie Bateman		10/01	0:49:31	100.00
13	Annie Schweikert	OLH LLs	10/01	0:50:51	97.38
14	Jayoon Jang	Stanford Cycling	9/29	0:51:30	96.15
15	Jennifer MacGougan	Partners in Climb	9/29	0:51:45	95.68
16	Kelley Prebil		9/29	0:52:40	94.02
17	Claudia Picanco	Partners in Climb	10/01	0:54:10	91.42
18	Apoorva Setlur	Partners in Climb	9/29	0:58:33	84.57
19	Amanda Domitrowich	Lanterne Rouge	10/01	0:58:45	84.28
20	Kris Moore	Partners in Climb	9/29	1:00:36	81.71
21	Kelly Kang	Partners in Climb	9/29	1:02:23	79.37
22	Gowri Grewal	Partners in Climb	9/29	1:07:02	73.87
23	Angela Cearns	Lanterne Rouge	9/30	1:10:36	70.14

Individual Men

Median: 0:39:39

Place	Name	Team	Date	Time	Score
1	Alex Wild		10/01	0:23:46	166.83
2	Grant Miller	Alto Velo	9/30	0:25:25	156.00
3	Andrew Ernst	Alto Velo	9/29	0:26:25	150.09
4	Dye-Zone Chen	Lanterne Rouge	10/01	0:28:28	139.29
5	Stefano Profumo	KaiVelo	9/29	0:28:31	139.04
6	Chris Ritchie		9/30	0:29:35	134.03
7	Nat Green	Alto Velo	9/30	0:29:49	132.98
8	Julien Amblard		9/30	0:29:53	132.68
9	Geoff Willard	OLH LLs	10/01	0:29:58	132.31
10	Adam Meyer		9/30	0:30:11	131.36
11	Dan Pannell	WEDU / CVC	9/29	0:30:29	130.07
12	Spencer Rotan		9/30	0:30:41	129.22
13	Michael Fryar	Alto Velo	9/29	0:30:48	128.73
14	Rani Joseph	Black mountain composite	9/30	0:30:49	128.66
15	Maxime Cauchois	Alto Velo	9/30	0:31:10	127.22
16	Shai traister	Alto Velo	9/29	0:31:14	126.95
17	Tim Chao		9/30	0:31:16	126.81
18	Tuomas Viitanen		9/30	0:31:17	126.74
19	Thanh Tran		10/01	0:31:42	125.08
20	Steve Ihde	Pen Velo	10/01	0:32:20	122.63
21	Johannes Ferstad	Stanford Cycling	9/29	0:32:28	122.13
22	Matt Lambert	C510	10/01	0:32:56	120.39
23	Rama Roberts	Pen Velo	10/01	0:33:19	119.01
24	Harold Reimer	Alto Velo	10/01	0:33:23	118.77
25	Nils Tikkanen		9/30	0:33:30	118.36
26	Jack Lund		9/30	0:34:06	116.28
27	Martin Krestan	MUDRACI_CZ	10/01	0:34:40	114.38
28	Ramakrishna Kempaiah		9/29	0:34:47	113.99
29	Bill Laddish	WEDU / CVC	9/30	0:35:26	111.90
30	Craig Sanders		10/01	0:35:33	111.53
31	Robert Gonzales	Upshift Cycles	10/01	0:35:33	111.53
32	Eric McGlennon		10/01	0:35:38	111.27
33	Torsten Fink	WEDU / CVC	9/30	0:35:53	110.50
34	Dane Holte		9/30	0:36:05	109.88
35	Bob Ryskamp		9/30	0:36:07	109.78
36	Marco Soldano		9/30	0:36:23	108.98
37	Kenneth Liew		9/29	0:37:00	107.16
38	David Kelly	SJBC	9/30	0:37:01	107.11
39	Adam Bhavnani	These Nuts 🥜	9/30	0:37:38	105.36
40	Cristobal Eyzaguirre	Stanford Cycling	10/01	0:37:45	105.03
41	Fei Xia		9/30	0:37:49	104.85
42	Bruno Acklin	Lanterne Rouge	9/30	0:38:02	104.25
43	Scott Olsen		9/29	0:38:04	104.16
44	Otto Jolanki	Alto Velo	9/30	0:38:05	104.11
45	Yu Wang	Stanford Cycling	10/01	0:38:23	103.30
46	Oren Levy	Marin Cyclists	9/30	0:38:45	102.32
47	Heegwang Roh	Stanford Cycling	9/29	0:39:39	100.00
48	Henry Cheng		9/30	0:39:39	100.00
49	Glenn Wenig	Lanterne Rouge	10/01	0:39:51	99.50
50	Alex Ho		9/29	0:40:29	97.94
51	Lucas Pereira	Google	10/01	0:40:37	97.62
52	Jiri Dutkevic	JRA	9/29	0:41:07	96.43
53	Eric Krejci	WEDU / CVC	9/30	0:41:21	95.89
54	Richard Tasker		9/29	0:41:25	95.73
55	Bruce Gardner		10/01	0:41:26	95.70
56	Mikiharu Ohoka		9/30	0:41:38	95.24
57	Nathan Paige		10/01	0:41:52	94.71
58	Sid Mathai		10/01	0:42:08	94.11
59	Larry Klein	GOM	10/01	0:42:20	93.66
60	Robert Carlsen	JRA	9/29	0:42:27	93.40
61	Mike Heinaman		9/29	0:42:41	92.89
62	Shen Shen		9/30	0:42:55	92.39
63	Stephen Fong	GOM	9/29	0:42:56	92.35
64	Bryan Vivero		9/30	0:43:13	91.75
65	Jonathan Lewis	Alto Velo	9/29	0:43:13	91.75
66	Seth McCann		9/30	0:43:14	91.71
67	Shane Ruggieri	WEDU / CVC	9/30	0:43:25	91.32
68	Jorge Chang	GOM	10/01	0:43:27	91.25
69	Matthew Walton		9/30	0:43:44	90.66
70	Tim Wong	Team Fremont	10/01	0:44:09	89.81
71	Hong Quan	Karmic	10/01	0:44:12	89.71
72	Eric Hanson		10/01	0:44:22	89.37
73	Frank Drobot	Team Djament	10/01	0:44:38	88.83
74	Divy Le ray		10/01	0:44:44	88.64
75	Wes Choy		10/01	0:44:44	88.64
76	Eric Johnsen	SMLY	9/29	0:44:49	88.47
77	Mark Yelencich	Lanterne Rouge	10/01	0:45:09	87.82
78	Fred E Stamm	Pen Velo	9/30	0:45:28	87.21
79	Eric Evitt	Lanterne Rouge	10/01	0:46:07	85.98
80	Kevin Cearns	Lanterne Rouge	9/30	0:46:46	84.78
81	Rick Madden	No Country for Old Men	9/29	0:47:38	83.24
82	Bernard Bell		10/01	0:48:46	81.31
83	Edward Miller		9/29	0:50:28	78.57
84	Kevin Gong		10/01	0:50:55	77.87
85	Dennis Coonan		9/30	0:51:43	76.67
86	Allen Collins	Motovelo	9/30	0:53:45	73.77
87	Bill Katz	SparkEEs	9/30	0:56:32	70.14
88	Marshall Jackson	Lanterne Rouge	10/01	0:58:43	67.53
89	Navdeep Dhanjal		10/01	1:03:36	62.34
90	Shirish Kumar		9/30	1:11:17	55.62
91	Jan Van Bruaene		10/01	1:12:28	54.71
92	Eric Slocum	Upshift Cycles	9/30	1:12:43	54.53
93	Zhou Jiang		9/30	1:29:05	44.51

Age Groups

F Under 30
Place	Name	Team	Time	Score
1	Louise Thomas	Alto Velo	0:34:34	143.25
2	Lily Sanders		0:36:37	135.23
3	Claire MacDougall	Stanford Cycling	0:37:20	132.63
4	Sonia Martin		0:41:22	119.70
5	Kastania Dahlen		0:44:44	110.69
6	Jayoon Jang	Stanford Cycling	0:51:30	96.15
7	Apoorva Setlur	Partners in Climb	0:58:33	84.57
F 30-34
Place	Name	Team	Time	Score
1	Anna Guzman		0:34:48	142.29
2	Suzanne Farrell		0:41:30	119.32
3	Annie Schweikert	OLH LLs	0:50:51	97.38
F 40-44
Place	Name	Team	Time	Score
1	Ilse Pollet	Partners in Climb	0:46:13	107.14
2	Claudia Picanco	Partners in Climb	0:54:10	91.42
3	Amanda Domitrowich	Lanterne Rouge	0:58:45	84.28
4	Kelly Kang	Partners in Climb	1:02:23	79.37
F 45-49
Place	Name	Team	Time	Score
1	Julia Sparrow	Partners in Climb	0:41:26	119.51
2	Stephanie Bateman		0:49:31	100.00
3	Jennifer MacGougan	Partners in Climb	0:51:45	95.68
4	Kelley Prebil		0:52:40	94.02
F 50-54
Place	Name	Team	Time	Score
1	Gowri Grewal	Partners in Climb	1:07:02	73.87
2	Angela Cearns	Lanterne Rouge	1:10:36	70.14
F 55-59
Place	Name	Team	Time	Score
1	Janet Gardner		0:40:20	122.77
2	Kris Moore Total		1:00:36	81.71
F 60-64
Place	Name	Team	Time	Score
1	Yvonne Walbroehl	Pen Velo	0:39:30	125.36
M Under 30
Place	Name	Team	Time	Score
1	Grant Miller	Alto Velo	0:25:25	156.00
2	Andrew Ernst	Alto Velo	0:26:25	150.09
3	Julien Amblard		0:29:53	132.68
4	Rani Joseph	Black mountain composite	0:30:49	128.66
5	Maxime Cauchois	Alto Velo	0:31:10	127.22
6	Jack Lund		0:34:06	116.28
7	Cristobal Eyzaguirre	Stanford Cycling	0:37:45	105.03
8	Yu Wang	Stanford Cycling	0:38:23	103.30
9	Heegwang Roh	Stanford Cycling	0:39:39	100.00
10	Nathan Paige		0:41:52	94.71
M 30-34
Place	Name	Team	Time	Score
1	Alex Wild		0:23:46	166.83
2	Chris Ritchie		0:29:35	134.03
3	Spencer Rotan		0:30:41	129.22
4	Michael Fryar	Alto Velo	0:30:48	128.73
5	Johannes Ferstad	Stanford Cycling	0:32:28	122.13
6	Martin Krestan	MUDRACI_CZ	0:34:40	114.38
7	Robert Gonzales	Upshift Cycles	0:35:33	111.53
8	Adam Bhavnani	These Nuts 🥜	0:37:38	105.36
9	Fei Xia		0:37:49	104.85
10	Henry Cheng		0:39:39	100.00
11	Seth McCann		0:43:14	91.71
M 35-39
Place	Name	Team	Time	Score
1	Thanh Tran		0:31:42	125.08
2	Matt Lambert	C510	0:32:56	120.39
3	Dane Holte		0:36:05	109.88
4	Kenneth Liew		0:37:00	107.16
5	Oren Levy	Marin Cyclists	0:38:45	102.32
6	Jiri Dutkevic	JRA	0:41:07	96.43
7	Shen Shen		0:42:55	92.39
8	Bryan Vivero		0:43:13	91.75
9	Jonathan Lewis	Alto Velo	0:43:13	91.75
10	Tim Wong	Team Fremont	0:44:09	89.81
11	Wes Choy		0:44:44	88.64
12	Zhou Jiang		1:29:05	44.51
M 40-44
Place	Name	Team	Time	Score
1	Nat Green	Alto Velo	0:29:49	132.98
2	Geoff Willard	OLH LLs	0:29:58	132.31
3	Adam Meyer		0:30:11	131.36
4	Dan Pannell	WEDU / CVC	0:30:29	130.07
5	Tuomas Viitanen		0:31:17	126.74
6	Nils Tikkanen		0:33:30	118.36
7	Bob Ryskamp		0:36:07	109.78
8	Scott Olsen		0:38:04	104.16
9	Otto Jolanki	Alto Velo	0:38:05	104.11
10	Eric Krejci	WEDU / CVC	0:41:21	95.89
11	Matthew Walton		0:43:44	90.66
12	Eric Hanson		0:44:22	89.37
13	Navdeep Dhanjal		1:03:36	62.34
M 45-49
Place	Name	Team	Time	Score
1	Stefano Profumo	KaiVelo	0:28:31	139.04
2	Shai traister	Alto Velo	0:31:14	126.95
3	Rama Roberts	Pen Velo	0:33:19	119.01
4	Ramakrishna Kempaiah		0:34:47	113.99
5	Eric McGlennon		0:35:38	111.27
6	David Kelly	SJBC	0:37:01	107.11
7	Richard Tasker		0:41:25	95.73
8	Sid Mathai		0:42:08	94.11
9	Robert Carlsen	JRA	0:42:27	93.40
10	Mike Heinaman		0:42:41	92.89
11	Jorge Chang	GOM	0:43:27	91.25
12	Hong Quan	Karmic	0:44:12	89.71
13	Eric Johnsen	SMLY	0:44:49	88.47
14	Allen Collins	Motovelo	0:53:45	73.77
15	Jan Van Bruaene		1:12:28	54.71
M 50-54
Place	Name	Team	Time	Score
1	Dye-Zone Chen	Lanterne Rouge	0:28:28	139.29
2	Tim Chao		0:31:16	126.81
3	Steve Ihde	Pen Velo	0:32:20	122.63
4	Bill Laddish	WEDU / CVC	0:35:26	111.90
5	Marco Soldano		0:36:23	108.98
6	Alex Ho		0:40:29	97.94
7	Lucas Pereira	Google	0:40:37	97.62
8	Bruce Gardner		0:41:26	95.70
9	Shane Ruggieri	WEDU / CVC	0:43:25	91.32
10	Divy Le ray		0:44:44	88.64
11	Kevin Cearns	Lanterne Rouge	0:46:46	84.78
12	Kevin Gong		0:50:55	77.87
13	Dennis Coonan		0:51:43	76.67
14	Eric Slocum	Upshift Cycles	1:12:43	54.53
M 55-59
Place	Name	Team	Time	Score
1	Torsten Fink	WEDU / CVC	0:35:53	110.50
2	Stephen Fong	GOM	0:42:56	92.35
3	Marshall Jackson	Lanterne Rouge	0:58:43	67.53
4	Shirish Kumar		1:11:17	55.62
M 60-64
Place	Name	Team	Time	Score
1	Harold Reimer	Alto Velo	0:33:23	118.77
2	Craig Sanders		0:35:33	111.53
3	Bruno Acklin	Lanterne Rouge	0:38:02	104.25
4	Larry Klein	GOM	0:42:20	93.66
5	Bernard Bell		0:48:46	81.31
6	Bill Katz	SparkEEs	0:56:32	70.14
M 65-69
Place	Name	Team	Time	Score
1	Glenn Wenig	Lanterne Rouge	0:39:51	99.50
2	Mikiharu Ohoka		0:41:38	95.24
3	Mark Yelencich	Lanterne Rouge	0:45:09	87.82
4	Rick Madden	No Country for Old Men	0:47:38	83.24
M 70+
Place	Name	Team	Time	Score
1	Frank Drobot	Team Djament	0:44:38	88.83
2	Fred E Stamm	Pen Velo	0:45:28	87.21
3	Eric Evitt	Lanterne Rouge	0:46:07	85.98
4	Edward Miller		0:50:28	78.57

Teams

Place	Team	Roster	Score
1	Alto Velo	Andrew Ernst, Andrew Wrist, Bernardo Tapia, Grant Miller, Hannon Ayer, Harold Reimer, Hoss Hayati, Jeremy Besmer, Jonathan Lewis, Katheryn Curi, Kristin Hepworth, Louise Thomas, Maxime Cauchois, Michael Fryar, Munjal Shah, Nat Green, Nathan Martin, Otto Jolanki, Robin Betz, Robin Kutner, Shai traister, Tanner DeVoe	449.34
2	Pen Velo	Fred E Stamm, James Rainbow, Jessica Karste, Lisa Cooke-Cresson, MaryAnn Levenson, Menko Johnson, Peter Steiner, Rama Roberts, Steve Ihde, Yvonne Walbroehl	367.00
3	Stanford Cycling	Claire MacDougall, Cristobal Eyzaguirre, George Wehner, Heegwang Roh, Jayoon Jang, Johannes Ferstad, Rohit Nema, Yu Wang	359.79
4	WEDU / CVC	Bill Laddish, Dan Pannell, Eric Krejci, Jim Torrence, Ramon Periquet, Shane Ruggieri, Torsten Fink	352.47
5	Lanterne Rouge	Amanda Domitrowich, Angela Cearns, Bruno Acklin, Dye-Zone Chen, Eric Evitt, Glenn Wenig, Kevin Cearns, Mark Yelencich, Marshall Jackson, Matt Miecnikowski, Pierre Doussiere	343.03
6	Partners in Climb	Abby Keller, Amy Silverstein, Apoorva Setlur, Claudia Picanco, Debbie Barone, Eugenia Kato, Frida Miranda, Gowri Grewal, Hannah Squier, Ilse Pollet, Jennifer MacGougan, Jessica O'Neill, Julia Sparrow, Katherine Chen, Kelly Kang, Kris Moore, Theresa Liu	322.33
7	GOM	Jason Lewis, Jorge Chang, Larry Klein, Stephen Fong	277.27
8	OLH LLs	Annie Schweikert, Geoff Willard	229.69
9	JRA	Jiri Dutkevic, Robert Carlsen	189.84
10	Upshift Cycles	Eric Slocum, Nykolas Crovetto-Dumont, Robert Gonzales	166.06
11	KaiVelo	Stefano Profumo	139.04
12	Black mountain composite	Rani Joseph	128.66
13	C510	Matt Lambert	120.39
14	MUDRACI_CZ	Martin Krestan	114.38
15	SJBC	David Kelly, Francois-Xavier Bucher, Kegan Connick, Todd Manley	107.11
16	These Nuts 🥜	Adam Bhavnani, Mari Tanaka	105.36
17	Marin Cyclists	Oren Levy	102.32
18	Google	Lucas Pereira	97.62
19	Team Fremont	Tim Wong	89.81
20	Karmic	Hong Quan	89.71
21	Team Djament	Frank Drobot	88.83
22	SMLY	Eric Johnsen	88.47
23	No Country for Old Men	Rick Madden	83.24
24	Motovelo	Allen Collins	73.77
25	SparkEEs	Bill Katz	70.14