Sunday, October 2, 2011

Preliminary 2012 Pittsburgh Randonneuring calendar

Date                      Distance               Type                                      Comments Route
Sat 17-Mar          100 km                  RUSA populaire                Dan G to route
Sat 31-Mar          200 km                  ACP brevet                         Spring 200 km
Sun 8-Apr Easter (Fleche time!)
Sat 21-Apr           300 km                  ACP brevet                         Roach motel 300 km
Sat 28-Apr           100 km                  RUSA populaire                Same route as 3/17
Sat 28-Apr WPW Spring kickoff?
Sat 5-May Calvins Challenge
Sat 12-May         400 km                  ACP brevet                         Pgh-Erie-Pgh
Sat 26-May         600 km                  ACP brevet                         Pgh-Erie-Pgh+200km
Sat 16-Jun           200 km                  RUSA brevet                      AMCUP 200 km Ohiopyle-Cumberland-Ohiopyle
Sat 14-Jul             200-ish km           RUSA brevet                      there… Dan B to route
Sun 15-Jul            200-ish km           RUSA brevet                      and back (east or west?) Dan to route
Fri 3-Aug              1000 km               RUSA brevet                      Dan B to route
Sat 18-Aug          100 km                  RUSA populaire                Bike Fest populaire ??? Brian to route ???
Sat 18-Aug          200 km                 RUSA brevet                      Bike Fest brevet Dan B to route
Sat 6-Oct              200 km                 RUSA brevet                      River Valleys or TBD

Pittsburgh River Valleys 200 km - Ride Report

We had two finishers, one DNF, one DNS.  Dan Blumenfeld reported on his DNF on the email list.

Congratulations to Dan Golderg on his first successful brevet riding a fixed gear bike!

The day started as warm as it would get, around 50 F.  The ride along Freeport road to Culmerville was pleasant.  The section beween Culmerville and Butler is among the most pleasant on this route.  But as Dan B reported, that is when it started to rain.  It rained steadily mostly through the day, tapering off a bit near the end for a while, then picking back up.

Dan G was a good sport when soon after the second control south of Butler, I missed a turn and rolled off the ridge the wrong directly into Butler, so we had a bonus hill to climb.

Dan G noted the abundance of hills on the route circa mile 60, when we nearing but not quite at the end of the abundance of hills between miles 60 and 75.

We had head winds pick up particularly after Cranberry toward Midland, so I was looking for tailwinds on the return.  They didn’t show up initially, with wind out of the north.  We did get some after Rochester.  The mile of milled road after Rochester was paved this week, and we had a blocked off lane of 51 to ourselves.

It was a great day to experience the combination of rain, mid-40’s and hills, if you were looking for that in the safe setting of a 200 km to experience same.

With the rain, the trail was largely free of people from its start to Millvale. That is a pleasant low-stress entry into the city, as long as it is an off season day (last week after a Pitt game was a much different experience.

The before ride snacks were cookie's from Jean-Marcs and afterward we had pizza.

I thought it was an aberration last week, but the route comes up a mile or two short in this instantiation.

Pittsburgh Randonneurs - 2011 Results

Thanks to everyone who rode brevets in Pittsburgh 2011.  Attached are summary results.


Registrations and Results - Pittsburgh  Brevets 2011
Updated:
10/2/2011














Name
From
RUSA
3/23/2011
4/23/2011
5/7/2011
5/28/2011
200 km
300 km
400 km
200 km




200 km
300 km
400 km
600 km
6/18/2011
7/9/2011
7/30/2011
10/1/2011

Daniel Blumenfeld
Pittsburgh, PA
4664
10:08:00 M




18:30 M

DNF

Tim Carroll
Cleveland Heights, OH
3346


19:40 M




DNS

Joel Dillon
Edinburg, PA
24
DNS








Brandon Ference
Pittsburgh, PA






18:30 M



Stephen Glowacki
Cleveland, OH
5419

DNS







Daniel Goldberg
Pittsburgh, PA

10:35



11:30 M
18:30 M

10:20

Jeffrie Gotthardt
Hudson, OH
2156


19:40 M






Tom Hovan
Altoona, PA

10:08




18:30 M



Bill Huber
Zelienople
6362
10:08 AM M
17:40 M
19:40 M
35:34 M





Jim Logan
Pittsburgh, PA
3730
12:10 M
19:30 M
23:45 M
38:35 M
11:37
19:12 M
DNQ
10:20

Jason McCloskey
Pittsburgh, PA










Steve Nothnagle
Rochester, NY
6967


19:40 M






Henrik Olsen
Walkerville, MD
4904

DNS







Paul Smith
Charlotte, NC
95




12:30




Ellie Wallace
Cincinnati, OH


17:40 M







Jon Webb
Pittsburgh, PA

DNQ








Tim Zak
Pittsburgh, PA
5684
10:08


39:30 M

















Key to Jim's cryptic registration system:
X
- Commitment to ride
F
- Appropriate fee paid
W
- Waiver signed
V
- Volunteer ride
M
 ACP medal delivered