We stumbled across this footage of the Independence Valley Road Race.
Pretty sure that is our own Tim Farrell in the FareStart kit!
Thanks to ForzaVelo for the great images.
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Mar 27, 2012
Mar 24, 2012
Independence Valley Road Race
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| Master's podium |
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| Facial hair at the road race |
| Event Name: | Independence Valley Road Race |
| Date: | 3/24/2012 |
| Description: | First hilly race of the road season, this year's edition brought wonderful sunny weather to boot! |
| Masters 1-3 Men: | 4th - Ryan Dean |
All the results are HERE.
A more in-depth report on the masters 1-3 race can be found HERE.
Mar 18, 2012
FareStart Time Trial
| Event Name: | FareStart Time Trial |
| Date: | March 18 2012 |
| Description: | flat, out-and-back 9 mile TT |
| Pro/1/2 Men: | 7th - Alex Telitsine |
| Cat 4/5 Men: | 3rd - Lane Seeley 6th - Tim Farrell |
| Masters 40-49 Cat 1/2/3 Men: | 6th - Greg Kauper |
official results
On a day when the weather looked very threatening a one-hour delay brought an end to the precipitation and although the roads were still wet everyone raced in safe conditions and warmer temperatures. Thanks to our officials and volunteers for making this event happen!
Alex continued his streak of top-10 TT finishes and today we had a host of riders post some good results.
Need we say more?
Here are all the pictures.
Mar 17, 2012
Tour de Dung Road Race #2
| Event Name: | Tour de Dung Road Race |
| Date: | March 17 2012 |
| Description: | gently rolling 12 mile loop |
| Masters 40+ Cat 1/2/3 Men: | 8th - RC Rogers |
Congratulations to RC Rogers for a top-10 finish!
Mar 13, 2012
March Sponsor Profile - Seitel Systems
This month we're highlighting the work of Seitel Systems and one of their principals, Peter Seitel.
Peter Seitel founded Seitel Systems, LLC in 2006 and is one of the firm’s four Partners. He’s been in the information technology business since 1982 and co-founded his firm’s predecessor, Seitel Leeds and Associates, in 1990. Seitel Systems provides network, server, telecommunications, and desktop services to Puget Sound businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. Peter is a former geologist (having worked for both a Puget Sound geotechnical consulting firm and the U.S. Corp of Engineers) and is a graduate of Middlebury College. When he’s not working, he can generally be found bicycling Puget Sound back roads, spending time with his family and friends, or volunteering as a mathematics tutor to Seattle students. You can read more about Seitel Systems and their excellent team of IT professionals HERE.
I had the privilege of sitting down with Peter the other day to get his thoughts on a few areas of mutual interest.
How did you determine your corporate logo? It sure looks like a bicycle chain to me.
PS: That's because it is exactly like a bike chain! In my business, IT is all about linking different parts of the organization together and making disparate technology components work as one. It's all about connections, and when the designer learned more about my personality and love for bikes, it was a natural home run.
If money and work were no object, what else would you be doing right now?
PS: No question at all, I'd be running a bike shop and a European bicycle touring operation similar to Glen Erickson Tours – though with an emphasis on family cycling -- where you ride through small villages and meet locals who just happen to live near the great climbs of the Tour de France. I've ridden a few on Glen’s tours and they are really wonderful.
You are something of a ride organizer yourself aren't you?
PS: Yes. For many years I've maintained "the list," which is a loose association of email addresses of anyone I’ve ever heard use the words “bicycling” and “fun” in the same sentence. Subsets of this group occasionally get together for exotic, multi-generational tours to Bainbridge Island (Chilly Hilly), the San Michele Winery (birthday bike ride), Paradise (HAMROD --- Half-Assed ride around Mount Rainier in One Day), and of course, the Methow Valley (NCR -- North Cascade ride). For NCR, we start out in Newhalem, ride to Winthrop, spend a day or two in the valley (replete with a styling cocktail party), and then ride back. We like to parse the group into the "old guys" aka The Grays, the slightly younger as The Reds and so forth. We like to acknowledge those special riders (oldest, youngest, most stylin’, etc) with an awards ceremony at the end. It's a lot of fun and for the past several years, many members of the Alki Rubicon group have joined in.
As one of the principals in your firm, do you encourage your staff to bicycle commute to work like you do?
PS: Yes. Each year Seitel Systems brings Kenny Hamm, The Bicycle Doctor out to the office to work on everyone's bike. I know there are risks associated with bicycle commuting but for me it is absolutely the best way to go. The more people we can get out there the better!
OK, how many bikes at home, and what would the ideal next bike be?
PS: Probably 4-6 working bicycles (including a tandem) at home right now, although I do have a number of bikes in different condition that I'm always fixing up to try to "seed" out there in the community, particularly for kids. The ideal next bike would have to be an Italian hand-lugged steel frame with Campagnolo. I definitely am a sucker for the classic looking machine. No weight weenie stuff here!
Peter - thanks for spending time with me, and particularly for sponsoring the race team! We really appreciate what you do.
Peter Seitel founded Seitel Systems, LLC in 2006 and is one of the firm’s four Partners. He’s been in the information technology business since 1982 and co-founded his firm’s predecessor, Seitel Leeds and Associates, in 1990. Seitel Systems provides network, server, telecommunications, and desktop services to Puget Sound businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. Peter is a former geologist (having worked for both a Puget Sound geotechnical consulting firm and the U.S. Corp of Engineers) and is a graduate of Middlebury College. When he’s not working, he can generally be found bicycling Puget Sound back roads, spending time with his family and friends, or volunteering as a mathematics tutor to Seattle students. You can read more about Seitel Systems and their excellent team of IT professionals HERE.
I had the privilege of sitting down with Peter the other day to get his thoughts on a few areas of mutual interest.
How did you determine your corporate logo? It sure looks like a bicycle chain to me.
PS: That's because it is exactly like a bike chain! In my business, IT is all about linking different parts of the organization together and making disparate technology components work as one. It's all about connections, and when the designer learned more about my personality and love for bikes, it was a natural home run.
If money and work were no object, what else would you be doing right now?
PS: No question at all, I'd be running a bike shop and a European bicycle touring operation similar to Glen Erickson Tours – though with an emphasis on family cycling -- where you ride through small villages and meet locals who just happen to live near the great climbs of the Tour de France. I've ridden a few on Glen’s tours and they are really wonderful.
You are something of a ride organizer yourself aren't you?
PS: Yes. For many years I've maintained "the list," which is a loose association of email addresses of anyone I’ve ever heard use the words “bicycling” and “fun” in the same sentence. Subsets of this group occasionally get together for exotic, multi-generational tours to Bainbridge Island (Chilly Hilly), the San Michele Winery (birthday bike ride), Paradise (HAMROD --- Half-Assed ride around Mount Rainier in One Day), and of course, the Methow Valley (NCR -- North Cascade ride). For NCR, we start out in Newhalem, ride to Winthrop, spend a day or two in the valley (replete with a styling cocktail party), and then ride back. We like to parse the group into the "old guys" aka The Grays, the slightly younger as The Reds and so forth. We like to acknowledge those special riders (oldest, youngest, most stylin’, etc) with an awards ceremony at the end. It's a lot of fun and for the past several years, many members of the Alki Rubicon group have joined in.
As one of the principals in your firm, do you encourage your staff to bicycle commute to work like you do?
PS: Yes. Each year Seitel Systems brings Kenny Hamm, The Bicycle Doctor out to the office to work on everyone's bike. I know there are risks associated with bicycle commuting but for me it is absolutely the best way to go. The more people we can get out there the better!
OK, how many bikes at home, and what would the ideal next bike be?
PS: Probably 4-6 working bicycles (including a tandem) at home right now, although I do have a number of bikes in different condition that I'm always fixing up to try to "seed" out there in the community, particularly for kids. The ideal next bike would have to be an Italian hand-lugged steel frame with Campagnolo. I definitely am a sucker for the classic looking machine. No weight weenie stuff here!
Peter - thanks for spending time with me, and particularly for sponsoring the race team! We really appreciate what you do.
Mar 11, 2012
Mason Lake Road Race #2
| Event Name: | Mason Lake Road Race |
| Date: | March 11 2012 |
| Description: | rolling 12 mile loop |
| Cat 4 Men: | 5th - Aaron Griffith |
On a tricky course that usually favors equal parts strategy as overall fitness Aaron managed to score.
And congratulations to team member AND sponsor Neal Goldberg for racing!
Mar 10, 2012
Tour de Dung Road Race #1 - Dean podiums!
| Event Name: | Tour de Dung |
| Date: | March 10 2012 |
| Description: | gently rolling 12 mile loop |
| Cat 4 Men: | 2nd - Dean Jasper |
official results
On a course that favors those willing to work and a home stretch that always has a headwind Dean Jasper got a well deserved podium finish. Here is his race report:
Legs heavy most of the week after Mason 1. Reg was a CF so my warm up was short and I didn’t get to start at the front like I like. Moved up fine and kept an eye on anything that looked promising on the first lap. Went with a couple of moves that didn’t last so settled in out of the wind. Lap two I marked Cycle U Todd that won at Mason (I’d come off his wheel at the finish with leg cramps and other excuses, but at least I was in the right place, just out of love). He and I took turns making it hard, getting free, and then getting caught. We had a good gap for a while, two Audi’s bridged but stalled at the front and allowed a few more to bridge, causing more loss of momentum and a stretched out pack a chance to cling back on. After that I got back out of the wind. Andrew and Tim both made solid attempts but were sucked back in. I stayed out of trouble and kept an eye on Cycle U Todd but let other people do the chasing down of the handful of attacks. One clown on a Cervelo missed corner three and just about cleared out the front of the pack as he went too hot into the corner at a bad angle (after someone yelled at him to hold his line), locked up brakes, and slid across the corner completely missing the turn and narrowly missing two or three riders (actually they avoided him, he was out of control). Last lap I just stay on good wheels—mostly Todd’s, moved up continually, made sure I was very near the front on the last corner. When it started to go, I locked on his wheel, pedaled through several close outs and went around left for the line. Unfortunately a Starbucks guy that had ridden about 10-15 back the whole race popped around the far right and took it. Legs felt better than last week (thank you Endurolytes), but I didn’t do as much work this time giving up hope earlier of getting away.
Mar 4, 2012
Wawawai Landing Time Trial & Wawawai Grade Hill Climb
| Event Name: | Wawawai Landing TT |
| Date: | 4 March 2012 |
| Description: | flat, 20 km TT |
| Pro/1/2 Men: | 2nd - Alex Telitsine |
| Event Name: | Wawawai Grade Hill Climb |
| Date: | 4 March 2012 |
| Description: | 11 km mass start hill climb TT |
| Pro/1/2 Men: | 5th - Alex Telitsine |
He is nothing if not meticulous in his preparation, gear and component selection, nutrition and training. Congratulations Alex on another fantastic result!
Mason Lake Road Race #1
| Event Name: | Mason Lake Road Race |
| Date: | March 4 2012 |
| Description: | 12 mile rolling loop, there is usually a headwind on the main road |
| Cat 4 Men: | 8th - Andrew Eisen |
| Masters Men 35+ Cat 1/2/3: | 3rd - Greg Kauper 5th - Martin Criminale 7th - Dave Hecht |
Andrew gets back-to-back top-10 results in the first full weekend of PNW racing and the FareStart masters squad makes it's first showing.
Congratulations to Andrew for another nice finish in what can be a tactical race.
In the masters field it was attacks from the beginning until a move stuck. Fortunately that move contained Greg who was shortly joined by Martin. Unfortunately (for us) it also contained Sean P and Nikos M from Garage Racing. Sean, Nikos and Greg powered the break after Martin died a quiet death just two laps in and in the end Garage still had enough in the tank to win the closely contested sprint. Congratulations to them. And congratulations to Greg for a strong showing and to Martin for hanging in there.
Back in the pack Dave managed to distance himself from the bunch with two laps to go and after dropping two companions eventually ended up in a two-up sprint for 6th. Looks like it was a day of narrow misses but it was also a day of well executed race strategy and with two in the main move it's hard to complain.
Here is Martin's race report.
Here are all the pictures.
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Mar 3, 2012
Icebreaker Time Trial
| Event Name: | Icebreaker Time Trial |
| Date: | March 3 2012 |
| Description: | flat out and back TT with one corner of note |
| Pro/1/2 Men: | 7th - Alex Telitsine |
| Cat 4 Men: | 6th - Tim Farrell 8th - Andrew Eisen |
The second time trial of the season and our third top-10 finish. Congratulations to Andrew and Alex and Tim!
Here are all the pictures.