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TWO STATE CHAMPIONSHIP WINS
AND TWO OTHER RACE WINS
Cooper Ray wins the NY state Junior 17-18 road race at the
Balloon Festival race.
Cooper just recently switched teams from Toga to the
CRCA Junior Development Team and is currently attending a cycling camp for
Juniors in Allentown , PA.
Juan Aracena wins the Cat 4 Watermelon Crit on June 6th.
This was Juan’s 3rd win of this season! I have known Juan for a long time
and he raced mountain bikes when I first met him years ago. He took a
little break from cycling (3 years), but now he is back with a bang!! Juan
is definitely a sprinter, but he does not shy away from going on a hilly
leg- breaking training ride midweek! Juan has worked extremely hard this
spring to get back into cycling and now he is more competitive than ever
and coaching him towards a whole new level is as rewarding as winning!!
John Raheb
is a similar type rider as Juan, very driven and focused! Both riders want
to win and both can, but they have a positive attitude and if they do not
win this weekend, they move on and try again the next weekend! That is a
quality in a bike racer that is invaluable and reflects the love to ride
their bikes. It is a passion and a lifestyle; winning is a bonus!!
John Raheb
did win this weekend - the 45+ NJ State road race. A goal he set for
himself a year ago, when he took second in this same race. That is
something a bike racer sometimes forgets - setting goals! It is very easy
to start racing in March week in and out. Getting very focused on races
that are supposed to be training races and by the time the real season
starts, feeling burnt out! My point is; train, race training races for
training and then do more important races or goal events - little recovery
and train some more, do some training races while you train and build to
more important events again! You can race 8-9 months of the year, but your
form and fitness will go in cycles and with a little coaching and help you
may hit the goal events in the right part of the cycle. Structure and base
is what is required the bulk of the time throughout year. This is something
that is part of every weeks training program but easily overlooked. Eddy
Merckx once said” to be good you have to ride your bike “he meant time on
the bike or endurance miles!
Set a
reasonable goal, train towards your goal and try to achieve, then move on
to the next one, the world does not stop if you miss, look forward and let
that second place motivate to greater things!!
Michael
Beckerman is another hard working athlete and extremely focused on what he
is not so good at. Michael knows he can time trial , but he had not won a
mass start event until this past Sunday when he soloed to victory at Floyd
Bennett Field in the 3-4 race . He has been close before, but never pulled
off a win. This was not only a milestone for Michael, but also a first big
win for his FGX team. His team mates were instrumental in this win and
Patrick Littlefield placed 3rd in the very same race which added
to the success. Patrick had also gotten 3rd two days before in a
smaller race in Long Island. Since I
coached this team, every single guy has worked extremely hard and just been
short off a top result until now. This will boost the moral of the whole
team and I think Michael’s win will lead to a breakthrough for the whole
team! I might coach each guy individually, but when you are out there
racing, it becomes a team effort. The FGX guys are really a perfect example
of that!
Kim
Aspholm won the Harriman duathlon overall women's division, taking 6
minutes of her previous time at the same race last fall!
Congratulations to our 5 winners this week!
Other results:
*Jim Vreeland 3rd in NYC Highbridge Mtn. bike
race
*SBR triathlon, David Marcus first tri and 2nd
in his age group!!
*Balloon Festival Race - Evan Cooper 9th - Cat. 3/4
*Tour of High
Bridge - Evan Cooper 9th
- Cat. 3, Roger won the Pro 1/2
*FBF - June 16 - Chris Shaw - 6th Cat. 1/2/3
*Rockleigh June 11 - John Raheb - 3rd
*CRCA Points race Christophe Jammet finished 5th
*Oxford
Race, PA Alvin 3rd and Rob 5th - both FGX (Cat. 4)
*Seven
Lakes TT June 7 -
John Landino 6th Masters 40+
Andreas Runggatscher 8th Senior Men
* FBF NY crit - Mike Beckerman 1st, 3rd Patrick
Littlefield
*Harriman Duathlon - Kim Aspholm 1st Women overall
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