PA Road Race Results

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Suburban Cable Circuit Race
Pennsylvania State Road Championship
Saturday, September 11, 1999
Manor Township, Lancaster, PA

From Bill Laudien

A beautiful day greeted riders for the PA State Road Race Championships on Sat, sept 11. The race was hosted by Manor Township and Sponsored by Suburban Cable. Proceeds go to the Lancaster Optimists Club.

Men 1-3 Report

Conditions: Sunny, 80 degrees, and a westerly wind at 5-15 mph.
Distance: 72 miles. 18 laps including 3 laps up the Gamber Wall.
81 riders starting

Lap 1-3: Pretty much right from the gun the action started with Mark Light(snow valley) and Chadd Martin (excite/ smart fuel) getting away and getting up to a 55 second lead. Casey Williams and his protege, Josh Smith (remember this name) also got clear of the field and at on point were within 30 seconds of the leaders. The field, content to go at a moderate pace soon found themsleves caught by the 4/5 field.

Laps 4-6: Williams and Beck were caught as the 1/2/3's tried to rid themselves of the 4/5's. The pace was turned up one more time and as the last of the 4/5's came off the group, the lead went from :55 to :20 to "groupetto compacto" in 2 laps.

7 - 12: Im not exactly sure of all that transpired here except that Mark Light attacked a couple more times and finally got free with Andrew "the Elf" Elstien ( TSV, cat 3 soon to be cat 1), Rod Meyers (All Sport in his first race of the year), Phil Cable ( Enzymatic Therapy), Carlos Rogers ( Bicycle Therapy), and Chad Martin. The group was working well together and all of the major team were represented. Approaching the start finish area, Rod went off the road and went down hard, taking Carlos with him.

Laps 12: The first time up the hill. With the break diminished in size and now 2 teams no longer represented, things looked touch and go as the peleton prepared to attack the Gamber wall the first time. The break had about 35 seconds going into the wall when Chadd Martin found the early effort too much and came off the break.

Laps 13-14: The break held it's slim lead between 25-45 seconds for the next two laps.

Lap 15 Wall #2: Before the wall Jeff Rutter bridged up to the leaders giving Snow Valely 2 riders in the break. Scott Henry ( Harrisburg) lead the group up the wall while Torrey Marks sat near the front ready to shut down and chasing effort.

15-18: Despite some sprited effort from the deminishing main group, the breaks lead continue to grow. With two in the break, Snow Valley was determined to drive the break and Rutter provided more than enough horsepower. By the finish the lead was up over a minute. Rutter lead the group until 200m when Cable started his sprint. Light sat tucked in until 50M to go. The final drag race saw Light exact his revenge from Christiana and take the victory. Cable 2nd, Elstien and Rutter followed. The rest of the field finishe din small groups as the field broke apart under the pressure of the final lap. Full results follow.

Other notes:

Rod Meyers in his first race of the year suffered from a bad crash. He is currently in Lancaster General for xray and observation. A broken clavicle is for sure, other injuries are to be determined.

The leaders did an esitmated 72 miles in 3:15. average speed about 22.2 mph. I suspect that either the mileage or time was off a bit. Perhaps someone in the race can give more accurate numbers.

Pitcure will be posted on www.manortwp.org as soon as we get them developed and scanned in. If anyone has any picture of the race or awards, please contact me.

an excellent job was done by the official, motos, and marshals. Things were especially hairy with the 4/5 men and 1/2/3 mixed, but they did a good job of sorting things out.

For next year we will definately have no more than 3, most likely 2 groups on the course at the same time.

Thank you to everyone who came out, I hope you enjoyed yourselves.

Reports and results of the other races will follow.
Men 1-3
1.  Light           snow valley
2   cable           enzymatic therapy
3   andrew elstien  tristate velo
4   jeff rutter     snow valley
5   torrey marks    snow valley
6   rob coulton     alans
7   dean rittenhouse    snow valley
8   dave black      enzymatic
9   mike orlet      exite
10  bryan chikotas  first state
11  matt willis     enzymatic
12  josh beck       unatt
13  andrew albright first state
14  stephen kincaid exite
15  darrell vreudenhil  snow valley
16  brian trdina        allsport
17  dave pro        allsport
18  skip menard bicycle therapy
19  ron zurinskas   first state
20  casey williams  enzymatic therpay
21  john retsek     hot tubes
22  scott henry     harrisburg
23  eric workowski  first state
24  peter thallner  enzymatic
25  rob palachick   bike therapy
26  matt myers  bike sport
27  dan stockard    rrr
28  mike stout      lehigh wheelmen
29  george yoder    fredie fu
30  alex gilliam    breakaway fitness
31  russel blake    bucks
32  Don McCaughan   qcw
33  (#79)
34  Carlos Rogers   bicycle therapy
35  Kevin Westover  unnatt
36  Christian Gargiulo  CACT        
37  Doug Long       gs lancaster
38  wayne work      enztmatic therpay
39  hancock
40  kevin keith target
41  keith kahlbaugh first state
42  ( #80)
Women 1/2/3
distance 44 miles
winners time: 2:04:56
1   laura van guilder   navigators
2   mina pizzini        bicycle therapy
3   roz-reekie may  fredie fu
4   kristine kuss   first state ( bronze for state medal)
5   kristine osterling  altoona
6   maria collozo       tri state
7   elizabeth sterling  atloona
8   cassandra ramerez   tri state
9   kelly yoder     fredie fu
10  ann marie greenwood st mountain
11  nancy gray  first state
12  lynda watkins   tri state
13  carla chamberlain   bucks
14  ann mulvey      crc of a

Cat 4 Women
distance  20 miles
winners time :  54:11
1   diane castor    tri state
2   marcie tobie    green mt
3   josie slew      first state
4   mary heisey gs lanc ( bronze medal)
5   kim meyer       squadra
6   nonnie howard   bikyle
7   donna anderson  evolution
8   cindy culsky    md
9   mary jo weier   md
10  eve egizni      md
11  sharon bicket   phila cycling
12   majorie adis   evolution
13  tammy ebersole  evolution
14  thies silve

cat 4/5 men
distance 32 miles
1   rich straub     penn state
2   chris button        aca
3   robert lyon     first capital
4   andy arvin      bucks
5   trey reinhart       unatt
6   nils anastad        lwa
7   jow marques whole wheel
8   jim thome       thome
9   tom caso        unatt
10  henry tremper   first state
11  alex roberts        rrr
12  marc massey bucks
13  paul burg       aca
14  james diffendal gs lanc
15  lane randolph   unatt
16  mel rose        rrr
17  scott farmer        lwa
18  anthony bauza   bikyle
19  kirk lindsong   first capital
20  steve sambrano  biklye
21  denton
22  burkholter
23  borits
24  lewendowski
25  rodenbargh
26  Brian Danoto    RRR
27  scott
28  bart torre jr       rrr
29  cramer          rrr
30  glock
31  rick heisey     all sport
32  mike hendrix    harrisburg
33  kevin zutell        fccc
34  weidner 
35  mike pigg       unatt
36  peters
37  stadden
38  butler
39  strittmatter
40  botkin       