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NORBA NCS Series #1 - E1
Waco, TX, USA, March 11-14, 2004
Race 1 - March 11: Marathon - 60miles
Charlie Storms home, Robinette wins in her home state
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After driving 20 hours from North Carolina yesterday to make it in time for his first ever MTB marathon, Charlie Storm (Fuji BTD Racing) surprised all by taking the win from an impressive line up. Although succesful in the cross scene, placing 14th is last years US Cross Nationals, up until now Storm has been limiting his MTB racing to the local scene and is new on the national MTB circuit.
Today he went out hard to take the lead and when he came through the finish area at the end of the first lap, he already had 20 minutes on three chasing riders. The marathon was a 60mile race on the Broken Oak Ranch in Waco, Texas consisting mainly of rolling fire trails with a bit of single track thrown in and of course the horses to dodge if you happened to come across one on the working ranch.
By the end of the three laps Storm had held his lead to take the race by 10 minutes with Jason Sager (Thunderbird Motel) coming in solo to take second place minutes in front of Chris Eatough (TREK Volkswagen). At the end of the race Storm said that despite the fact that this was his first marathon, he came here to win or at least being in the top few riders. "I wanted to have a good performance that would help me make the worlds team."
This performance will certainly help, however the main selection races for World's are Big Bear and West Virginia.
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In the women's race it was local rider Alexandra Robinette from Austin who took a win in front of her home crowd. This was also a new experience for Robinette being the first long distance race for her. Attacking on the single track early in lap two, Robinette took the lead and held it for the remaining 40 miles.
"It was hard to get away on the jeep roads," she said, "so my only option was the single track. I was a little bit worried about holding the others off for 40 miles as it was a brutal course."
Robinette did however manage to hold them off, winning by four and a half minutes from fellow Texan Leslie Reuter, with Colorado rider Abigail Hippely (Klein) taking third place.
Read the feature: Calm before the Storm by Charles Storm
Photography
Images by Mike Gladu/www.velodrome.com
- Jason Sager (USA) local favorite chills before the Marathon start
- Tinker Juarez (USA) lines up as the favorite from among the storied visitors
- Dave Weins (USA) is comfortable starting a row back from the young guns
- Tinker and Jason Sager get in a few words before setting out on the trail
- The marathon starting lineup
- Charles Storm (USA) makes his presence known, sets the pace up the first climb
- Tinker Juarez (USA) goes on foot after the first riders falter on the initial climb
- Tinker Juarez (USA) working hard after going off course on the first lap, hopes to ride back into contention from mid-pack
- Jason Sager (USA) in the same boat as Juarez, local fave Sager lets Tinker set the pace
- Jason Sager moves into the lead of the chase on a climb
- Tinker sounded winded after a full lap working to bring the leaders back into contention
- Alexandra Robinette (USA) led the Open Women from gun to wire
- Dave Weins handles the rocky climbs with ease
- Scott Long (USA) couldn't pass up the photo-op
- A Texas rider looks right at home in all-black amongst the prickly pears
- Charles Storm (USA) had a puncture on the first lap and didn't follow the leaders off course, which put him into a solid 20 minute lead and eventually the win
- Jason Sager floats over the rocks near the race finish
- Chris Eatough chases Sager to third
- Tinker loses a little ground late, falling back to fourth
- Weins brings it home for tenth
- Alexandra Robinett's win keeps the trophy at home
- Leslie Reuter makes it two for Austin's Bicycle Sport Shop team
- Pro Men's podium in front of the ranch namesake broken oak
- Abigail Hippely goes home to Colorado with 3rd in the Open Women and the Texas spring racing 'badge of honor' - grey mud calfs
Results
Open Men 1 Charlie Storm (Fuji BTD Racing) 3.58.29 2 Jason Sager (Thunderbird Motel) 10.31 3 Chris Eatough (TREK Volkswagen) 15.23 4 Tinker Juarez (Siemens Cannondale) 17.14 5 Adam Salladin (Downey) 17.43 6 Todd Helmick (Trek Volkswagen) 19.50 7 Mark Weir 20.15 8 Cameron Chambers (Subaru Gary Fisher) 23.52 9 Michael Janelle (Tokyo Joes) 25.35 10 Dave Wiens (RLX Ralph Loren) 28.31 11 Nat Ross 29.27 12 Jimi Mortenson 35.49 13 Michael McCalla 36.22 14 Robbie Robinette 43.49 15 Arial Lindsley 47.18 16 Kip Biese 54.35 DNF Todd Tanner Men 19-29 DNF Michael Winegar Men 30-39 1 Edward Moreadith 4.22.53 2 Bart Beddingfield 0.18 3 Brent Thompson 4.39 4 Patrick West 5.53 5 Kevin Vincent 12.25 6 Chris Hamilton 15.03 7 Kenneth Kisiel 15.16 8 Richard McAfee 31.25 9 Chris Burke 37.16 10 Tony Deore 38.45 11 Kenneth Kelly 40.22 12 Andrew Baker 44.08 13 Charles Covill 47.58 14 Grant Clayton 53.20 15 Bill Duckworth 56.36 16 Mike Hillenbrand 1.02.02 17 Scott Long 1.05.51 18 Craig Lesley 1.06.35 19 David Matthew 1.07.42 20 John Renaud 1.23.16 21 Brad Barnes 1.29.21 22 William Moritz 1.32.50 23 Stephen Curtner 1.34.38 24 Joseph Fried 1.44.24 25 Lenny Smith 2.02.11 26 Jim Thoma 2.21.47 DNF Alex Arumi DNF Garth McCann DNF Rich Visscher DNF Ryan Spates DNF John McCarey Men 40-49 1 Max Miley 4.20.17 2 Jordan Chaney 4.03 3 Jerry Hutchinson 22.50 4 Michael Vanrandwyk 25.10 5 Terry Mathison 33.21 6 Buddy Mendias 1.09.37 7 Pete Masiel 1.14.31 8 Mark Landeck 1.27.28 9 Doug Sprado 1.32.39 10 Kelly Steward 1.50.26 DNF Cary Duke DNF Brian Doddson Men 50+ 1 David Appleton 4.31.42 2 Andy Kathan 36.49 3 John Lilly 1.39.47 4 Marlin Duke 1.58.01 Open Women 1 Alexandra Robinette 4.31.49 2 Leslie Reuter 4.25 3 Abigail Hippely (Klein) 12.12 4 Jessica Kisiel (MTB Chicks) 22.36 5 Hillary Harrison (Kenda Tire) 32.24 DNF Shannon Tupa (Tokyo Joes) Women 30-39 1 Catherine Marchak 6.42.48 Women 40+ 1 Bonni Casteel 5.47.21 DNF Mary Lessor (Mad Duck) Overall 1 Charles Storm 3.58.29 2 Jason Sager 10.31 3 Chris Eatough 15.23 4 David (Tinker) Juarez 17.14 5 Adam Salladin 17.43 6 Todd Helmick 19.50 7 Mark Weir 20.15 8 Max Miley 21.48 9 Cameron Chambers 23.52 10 Edward Moreadith 24.24 11 Bart Beddingfield 24.42 12 Michael Janelle 25.35 13 Jordan Chaney 25.52 14 Dave Wiens 28.31 15 Brent Thompson 29.03 16 Nat Ross 29.27 17 Patrick West 30.17 18 David Appleton 33.14 19 Alexandra Robinette 33.21 20 Jimi Mortenson 35.49 21 Michael McCalla 36.22 22 Kevin Vincent 36.49 23 Leslie Reuter 37.46 24 Chris Hamilton 39.27 25 Kenneth Kisiel 39.40 26 Robbie Robinette 43.49 27 Jerry Hutchinson 44.38 28 Abigail Hippely 45.32 29 Michael Vanrandwyk 46.58 30 Arial Lindsley 47.18 31 Kip Biese 54.35 32 Terry Mathison 55.10 33 Richard McAfee 55.49 34 Jessica Kisiel 55.57 35 Chris Burke 1.01.40 36 Tony Deore 1.03.09 37 Kenneth Kelly 1.04.46 38 Hillary Harrison 1.05.45 39 Andrew Baker 1.08.32 40 Andy Kathan 1.10.02 41 Charles Covill 1.12.22 42 Grant Clayton 1.17.44 43 Bill Duckworth 1.21.00 44 Mike Hillenbrand 1.26.26 45 Scott Long 1.30.15 46 Craig Lesley 1.30.59 47 Buddy Mendias 1.31.25 48 David Matthew 1.32.06 49 Pete Masiel 1.36.19 50 John Renaud 1.47.40 51 Bonni Casteel 1.48.52 52 Mark Landeck 1.49.16 53 Brad Barnes 1.53.46 54 Doug Sprado 1.54.27 55 William Moritz 1.57.14 56 Stephen Curtner 1.59.02 57 Joseph Fried 2.08.48 58 Kelly Steward 2.12.14 59 John Lilly 2.13.01 60 Lenny Smith 2.26.35 61 Marlin Duke 2.31.15 62 Catherine Marchak 2.44.19 63 Jim Thoma 2.46.11 DNF Todd Tanner DNF Michael Winegar DNF Alex Arumi DNF Garth McCann DNF Rich Visscher DNF Ryan Spates DNF John McCarey DNF Cary Duke DNF Brian Doddson DNF Shannon Tupa DNF Mary Lessor
