Jeremy and I just wanted to professionally congratulate the winners of the moonlight crit which was held last Friday. Spencer Fetrow, Gregg Murray, Jeff Elie and Chris Kessler took the W with style. Way to represent the “way older than college kids” team.
I DUB THY WINNAs
it was an intense race that ended with a sudden death…no wait, 2 sudden deaths….or…i dont remember. well just let it rest at that. luckily we only suffered one casualty. mr nick zanchi took the hit for his team and crashed on his knoggin, but recovered like a champ. what a guy.
the mvp of the moonlight crit
thanks for comin out. good time. umbrc. baby.
OTHER NEWS THAT IS HOT OUT OF THE PRESS…UMBRC NEEDS A NEW VEHICLE AND I THINK WE FOUND IT
it didnt happen last friday because alum participation would have been down. this friday take it like you mean it umbrc…alum are gunna get stomped. they have been talkin a lot of smack so get yo game on..
you heard right, i swear i am not lying. i do not make things up, i just speak truth. it is happening, the most prolific race of guts and glory is about to go down this friday.
just remember, teams of 4, and a rack of cans per team. and so it begins…
come to the meeting tomorrow night (7:30 in campus center) for more info, or call/email me.
just to remind everyone who the winners were last year…
cute and cuddly on the outside, fierce champions on the inside...
unh’s famous “eagle” has been taking pictures of every collegiate mtb race this season…little did i know (maybe i was the only one). Anyway, here are some sweet pictures from past races. I will update everyones profile with updated pictures by next week. oh boy.
the shredder (nelly nelson placed 1st here)
i like how the focus is on seany boys leg. nice leg.
it just reminds me of the sunday river weekend for some reason. it was just a good ol time. let me tell you…we stayed in a gloriously glorious condo. it was 2 floors. enough said. there was a kitchen. really…enough said. so we drove a good 4.5 hours to get to sunday river. same time to get to lehigh the weekend before. ironic sorta. we had some new people come to the race with us which was great. it may have rained and turned a little sloppy at some points, but everyone seemed to be in high spirits all throughout the weekend. we are using the vans all the time now too. great umass athletic vans. convenient for bringing more than 2 people, including myself, to races in my car.
saturday went well. it rained most of the day. not too hard, but it definitely made things slippery. xc went well. the course was a little harsh according to those who rode, but i suppose we should have been expecting that since it is sunday river – classic new england biking. ds on saturday was a freakin mess. super duper sloppy and fun. the gravity guys had a great time freezing our arses off and sliding sideways.
sunday went a little better. no rain. i mean, dont get me wrong, i love the rain, but riding in it two days straight could have a negative impact when you dont have easy access to fresh laundry. a man needs fresh skibbies. anyway, stxc went very well. the endurance folk who raced said the course was not as technical as the xc course and a lot more fun. dh was awesome. i only got a couple runs in, but the runs i got were superb. the race course was knarly and fast at the same time. spills and thrill my friends, thrills and spills.
tom sampson ripping the dh last year. the same course from last year was used...it was sweet
get this…we actually stayed for awards cause WE GOT SOME. we brought home some fresh wood (awards were made of wood = badass). congrats to all you wood getters. lets keep the ball rollin for this weekend. easterns this weekend. double points in everything and TRIPLE FOR DH. wow. there could be some potential here.
here is a classic to put under the ol belt…maybe we will get to watch this never-gone-wrong movie in our offtime this weekend
ok i got back 2 nights ago, but it feels like i just got back. let me tell you that lehigh was a fun race. sadly enough only 3 umbrc boys were able to make the 4.5 hour trek to PA, but the fun prevailed non-the-less. we stayed with the presedent of lehigh’s cycling team, peter. good guy, great guy. did i mention that he lives with 3 girls all by himself?
yah thats right, the race was on this campus
getting on to the racing – it was actually nice only having gravity guys racing because we didnt have to get up early saturday or sunday. sleeping in and riding all day was super relaxing.
lovely group of guys. the one on the right in peter... he lives with 3 chicks
on saturday there was a new event called the “clusterhuck” which was essentially a 7 min xc course which dumped into a 2 minute downhill. this was a 2 person event meant for an xc’er and a dh’er, and we figured we should try it out. nelson and i went at it and ended up coming in 6th place out of 7 in men’s b. not bad for 8, yes i said 8, chain derailments by my sweet 1×9 setup with no chainguide. it was still fun. i did some 1 footer drifts with an xc bike in front of other xc’ers to get em going and it worked. sean, nelson and i were able to shuttle up a solid 3 runs on the dh course after the clusterhuck.
this is similar to what happens to me when my chain derails
sunday was the main event, dh. after heavy rain that lasted all throughout saturday night and into sunday morning, the dh course turned into a sloppy mess. umass ripped the course as many times as we could manage before our race began. i loved the course. i was just super happy to be on the big bike. i was first to race, and what happened you ask? i crashed. of course. it was a good one…i tweaked my leg a little…but the best part was my shorts somehow managed to un-button themselves during the crash. i got up in a hurry to get back on the bike while innocently letting my shorts slide down my legs. im pretty sure i mooned everyone that was watching, but i stopped soon after to fix my shorts malfunction. nelson had a solid run but slid out in a corner. sean has a nice conservative run which was probably the best thing to do as he came in 4th.
the drive home sucked, but hey, it was worth it. sunday river is this weekend. get ready for some sweet action. i am very excited about this race. booya
hey so we have be on the move with too many things to think of hence no update for a while. OH MY THINGS ARE STARTING TO CALM DOWN
so here we go…we hosted the ECCC Season Opener two weekends ago. It was sweet…a lot of rain let me tell you. the XC on saturday was a mudfest. the first third of the course was sweet singletrack that led to a deathly muddy powerlines run which smooshed over to the last third of the course which was conveniently awesome faster singletrack. other than the powerline craziness, i think it was a dam good race.
crone-dog showing a face a wisdom at the stxc
super d was at mt snow saturday afternoon. man i only rode the course in the morning but i thought it was steller. it included some fast singletrack dh, some open slope switchback dh’s, some blazing fast fireroads and some knarly 90 degree turns. that is what i call a fun race.
SHRED seany boy SHRED - sundays stxc
sunday morning was short-track xc. it was a super fun 3 minute long lap that everyone seemed to enjoy more than i would have thought. lovely.
dh was the big event for sunday. the first showing of the big bikes. it went well. it was on a course that mt snow ran for their dh#1 race the prior year which means it included that rock highway that is pretty infamous at mt snow. awesome loveliness. by the way that rock highway is a tire killer. known fact. beware.
dh boys sean and adam enjoying the amazing mt snow course on sunday
the full results from our race are posted on the eccc website…click here. our team results are posted in our “results” tab up on top of this webpage. check em out. we had some dam good results…too many to name.
unh was last weekend and that race was also quite awesome. we put up some more badass results which will be posted once full results are posted in the eccc website.
lehigh this weekend. ILL GIVE YOU SOME RACE COVERAGE WHEN I GET BACK
