Fort Dodge Trisport

2011 Results

Congrats to Travis Jass for winning the Sioux City Twin Bing Classic Road Race
Below is Travis' Race report.

The tagline on the race flyer for the Twin Bing Classic Road Race reads "Big hills, wind, small hills, flats, rollers, more wind. Something for everyone!", and it certainly held true. The race takes place around the rolling rural real estate of Woodbury county with the start/finish in the aptly named tiny town of Climbing Hill, a little south of Sioux City. The catergorys are set up a bit non-traditional, whereas Cat. 1,2 & 3 riders make up the "A" group, and the "B" race is comprised of 4's & 5's, Women and Jrs. Where it got interesting is that they allowed the Master's 40+ into the B race. It didn't mean to much to me, until the A group took off and there were some fast cats still hanging out at the staging area. The whistle blew and away we go for 45 miles of racing. My goal of the day was to get a good hard race pace ride in and get a feel for pack riding again. As we rolled out of town I got caught out in the back and spent two thirds of the first lap bobbing around the back mostly being blocked back by a very large field. When we got around to the backside with a tailwind, the pace went up and bobbing around the back is not where you want to be at that point. I started moving up when and where I could, and by that time the rollers had started taking their toll on some of the riders and the pack started to get whittled down some. We turned south into the strong crosswind section that is probably the least rolling area of the course and the pace dropped off and shelled riders caught back on easily, but I was in the front 1/3 cruising along. Another right hander took us right into the teeth of the headwind and all of a sudden it was a fight to see who could get off the front. Knowing a strong pull into the headwind would most likely end your day early, the speed dropped to nearly single digits. Up and over the two pronged hill that makes up the finish, the pace came back on the downhill and it started feeling like a race again, but the group had again swelled to around 40ish total riders, some fighting their way back into contact. I was feeling great at that point. I hadn't worked much at all to speak of, just playing the role of pack fodder, almost to the point of it being and easy ride. Again I was kinda hanging out at the back of the group looking for any opportunity to move up, I started hugging the centerline waiting for a window to open. A rider beside my most have read my body language cause he said "If your looking to make a move, your best chance is to go after the little town of Bronson, that is where the hammer will drop, if your not on the front then, well,.....". The town kinda marks the halfway point of the tailwind section with some pretty significant rollers between it and the strong crosswind section. On the downhill side of the first roller, I swept across the lane to the white line and bombed it to the bottom. By the time I was at the top of the next hill I was alone. Up and over into a flatter section, I just started watching my PowerTap to make sure I didn't go overboard in the effort. Suddenly I hear "I gotcha, we're 3" and two riders pulled thru, and I started thinking that was gonna work. We rotated thru several times very nicely when one of the riders looked back and said "we got 15 -20 seconds max, we might as well let them get us". As I pulled thru him, I told him "keep going" and the other rider said we needed to at least make it to the crosswind section and see how it looks then. I felt that if we had a good rotation and 20 seconds, the group would let us go, nobody would work together to get us. A fast descent leads into the right turn into crosswind and as I got the bottom of it, realized I was alone again. I took the corner fast and bit wide and as I got straight down the road I could hear brakes screeching down the hill. Exactly what I wanted to hear as I settled into full on time-trial mode. I rode right on the yellow line to make sure if anyone was coming around me they were doing it into the wind. I just kept going, not looking back, thinking I could feel them licking their chops to reel me in. Approaching the last turn into town/headwind I was fighting the urge to look back when I decided that I was so married to this move that if they were gonna catch me, they might as well stick a fork in my on the way by. With that I looked back and if they were close, I'd just stop at the substation parking lot and load up and head home. But to my surprise they weren't there. At that point I buried it into the wind, still thinking they were gonna fly around the corner and come get me. At the bottom of the first rise up to the finish I looked back to see the group breaking up and charging. The 1k to go mark passed under me, and the road flattened a bit before going up again into the finish. I looked back one last time to judge about a 10-15 second gap, shifted to granny gear and went cross-eyed for the line. I made it over before everyone else giving the orange and blue crew a springboard to launch the 2011 outdoor season into full swing. Afterwards, a rider said to me that a couple of times a rider or two would work hard to bring the gap down but then nobody would help out and get organized to lead a good chase so it would fell apart. If they would have got organized they would have have been able to catch me no problem. Full results can be found here. Final numbers: 45.4 miles total, 2hr8min 21.1 mph, 153bpm. From the point of my move: 10.07mi, 26min7sec, 179bpm.

Congratulations to Travis Jass for lowering the all time fastest 2-mile “Killer” Roller Race time to 4:52.3 and winning the drawing for Kreitler Challenger rollers w/”killer” headwind.

Congratulations to the 2011 Iowa Roller Race champions. Champion medals awarded based on each riders 3 best ride/time average.

First name last name license age gender average Minutes average Seconds

Cat1/2/3 Chad Bishop 223776 38 male 5 10.5666666666667

Cat4 Simon Carl 307602 23 male 5 1.9666666666667
Cat4 Travis Jass 257430 33 male 5 3.73333333333335
Cat4 Rob McKillip 271939 49 male 5 37.7666666666666
Cat4 Jon Sulzberger 72351 44 male 5 53.7666666666666
Cat4 William Rekemeyer 297983 17 male 5 55.7666666666667

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2011 Fort Dodge Trisport Rockin Roller Race

We'd like to thank the handful of riders that braved the cold to stop by and race in Fort Dodge. And a special thanks to Greg Harper for making the long trip up with the rollers setup. We do appreciate it!

Jr. Under 15
Trey Hedgecock 8:15.3

Women
Julie Zierke-Clark 6:55.2
Lacey Douglas 7:38.5

Masters 40+
Greg Harper 5:45.4
David Hammer 6:11.8

Cat 4
Simon Carl 5:05.8
Travis Jass 5:15.8

Cat 5/Citizen's
Nick Woolley 7:23.6 (one-day license)

Thanks again to all involved, see you next year!
Fort Dodge Trisport

2011 Valley West Wipeout Roller Race

FD Trisport member taking 2nd place in the first race of 2011, Great Job!
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Results – Valley West Wipeout

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Men Cat. 4

05:13.4 SIMON CARL DMOS
05:23.3 TRAVIS JASS FT DODGE TRI-SPORT
05:45.7 ROB MCKILLIP NEW PI
06:04.6 WILLIAM REKEMEYER RDMB JUNIOR RACING
06:46.7 STEVE CLARK DMOS