Spokeswomen Racing - Welcome to the Neighborhood!

Here at FareStart racing we love to follow other cycling teams in the Pacific Northwest, and in particular enjoy the writing at Seattle P.I.'s "Velocity Blog" by David Longdon.  From time to time David posts a bio about an area rider which is usually pretty interesting.  Even our own Martin Criminale was outlined in one issue here.

It was especially cool to hear about the genesis of a new women's race team as part of the bio on Lindsay Felker which you can read in its entirety here.

We excerpted the section that we thought was particularly cool and include it below.

[David L.]You are a co-founder of a new women’s cycling team. How did that come about?
{Lindsay F.]Myself and a few other rad women in the local peloton started a new women’s-only team and we’re just now getting the word out. We’re modeling our team, Spokeswomen Racing, after Farestart powered by Cobalt Mortgage team concept with emphasis on regular involvement in the organization. Our title sponsors are Peterson Bicycle and Jubilee Women’s Center. Jubilee is a women’s transitional house on Capitol Hill that provides extensive support to formerly homeless women. Our team’s focus is not only to race our bikes fast (we have some really talented riders) and mentor new riders, but to have a positive impact in our community.

Rad women?  Heck ya!  A couple of their racers, Cathy Varland & Alexie Montaland are FareStart alumni.  A tip of our cap to Spokeswomen Racing in 2012!

Grand Ridge Trail Run - Martin Wins! Justin Wins!

Event Name:	Grand Ridge Trail Run
Date:	11/20/11
Description:	Produced by 4th Dimension Racing, this trail run has a number of distances to contest.  Click on Martin's name to see a short summary of the event on his training blog.  Congrats to both!
Marathon distance:	1st - Martin Criminale   4:38:35
50 KM Distance	1st - Justin Angle    4:38:54

NW Cyclocross in the News!

Thanks to Erik Anderson for catching this...and Daniel Liberator for shooting and editing most footage.

KOMO News Coverage

With no less than:

Lane Seely (tutu)

Jeff Woerner

Dean Jasper
Aaron Griffith

Horatio Hornblower

In order of appearance...

MFG #6 Woodland Park GP - TuTu's setup train of pain

157 racers in the field, TuTu's earned 3 of the 12 coveted call ups due to consistent series performance.

Dean the machine on the barrier remount.

Stache & Tutu was not enough today.

RD pushed the pace early but faded when it mattered.

Series leader Kauper quickly established his hegemony, carrying the day and the series.

Kauper started the sprint before the turn, and looks back to be sure he's got Nicholas where he wants him.

The pic that captures why we train all the time.  We want to do that thing with the arms.

The four amigos.

Lane S. nailing the stairs.

Jeff W. before the remount...

...and after - executing perfect 'Hand-of-God' form.

New teammate Jesse N. shot this nice bit of video from lap 1 - first time up the stairs.

All photos credit Neal Goldberg and Gabe Templeton!

Event Name:	MFG #6 Woodland Park GP
Date:	11/13/11
Description:	Final in MFG series - biggest fields of the year!
Cat 2 Women:	9th - Alexie Montaland
Cat 3 Men 35+:	8th - Jeff Woerner 9th - Lane Seely
Cat 4 Men:	1st - Greg Kauper [Series Winner]

Pretty exciting day for the Cat 4 men's squad.  We knew Greg was getting the callup but did not expect both  Dean and myself to also get the nod.  This was huge as there were 157 racers entered!!  Dean and I did not have to burn energy to get through the inevitable layers of guys who got a favorable callup randomly.  We nailed the holeshot and had Dean, Greg and I through first quarter of the course in 1,2,3.  This was pretty awesome.  Some attacks started to go after the second barrier on the gravel road and then it pretty much blew open thereafter.  But Greg nailed it when it mattered and won the race and the series pretty convincingly.  He's donating all his prizes to his family.

In the Cat 3 35+ men's race Jeff and Lane held tough rounding out the top 10, we'll see how this holds for the series lead.

Nelly warming up the tutu for later.

SCX #5 Steilacoom V2 - Woerner Podiums!

phot credit www.onceglimpsed.com

Event Name:	SCX #5 Steilacoom V2
Date:	11/6/11
Description:	Second time around for SCX at Steilacoom.
Cat 3 Men 35+:	3rd - Jeff Woerner

On the eve of his first child's birth, Jeff goes out and lands a podium finish.  No pics yet so we don't know if a tutu played any role in it.  Or facial hair for that matter.  **this just in, neither were the case and he did well in spite of it!**

Stolen Bike Alert

Yesterday evening a black 58cm Neuvation rain bike with fenders and a powertap rear wheel was stolen from outside the Brave Horse Tavern in South Lake Union.  The rear wheel is stainless PT hub laced to DT Swiss RS45 silver rim. There is a name on the top tube as well - "Greg Kauper".

If someone tries to sell you a rain bike cheap please let us know at "ear@thumbprintracing.org".

Information leading to the recovery of the bike will undoubtedly result in some kind of reward I'm sure.

Thanks