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Nevada Cycling Association
Lafayette, CA, July 10, 2006
Harper, McCauley survive the heat in Lafayette
By Josh Kadis
With temperatures climbing well into the 90s at yesterday’s Lafayette criterium, race winners Beverley Harper (Touchstone Climbing) and Gordon McCauley (Successfulliving.com) took advantage of their time trialing abilities to keep the pack at bay in the Women 1/2/3 and Men Pro/1/2 races.
McCauley, who earned a bronze medal for New Zealand in the race against the clock at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, was one of two world-class time triallists in the winning breakaway in the men's race, where he outsprinted 8-time Canadian national time trial champion Eric Wohlberg (Symmetrics) as the pair lapped the main field on the finishing straight.
But while the laps ticked down and the two leaders played cat-and-mouse, Roman Kilun (Health Net presented by Maxxis) made a strong solo chase out of the field to finish third after catching and riding away from Rich del Valle (Club One/Jamba Juice) and Kevin Metcalfe (Pacific Coast Cycling), both of whom had been in the lead group with McCauley and Wohlberg for most of the race.
"I knew Roman was closing and I didn't know how good a sprinter he was, so I wanted to keep him from catching us," McCauley recalled, "but we didn't want to get mixed up in a bunch sprint, so we just tried to stay between Roman and the back of the field."
McCauley's chances improved as Wohlberg's rear tire slowly lost pressure during the last two laps, and the New Zealander was able to take the last corner more aggressively and come off the field's draft on the homestretch.
In the women's race, Harper cruised to a solo win after breaking away with teammate India Sanjuan, who slipped back to the field after a mechanical. Harper, who placed seventh in the national time trial championships at the USA Cycling National Festival in Pennsylvania on Thursday, said that the result "boosted my confidence, so I took a gamble and attacked pretty early with India."
Winning the field sprint behind Harper was Mary Ellen Ash (Bay Area Velo Girls), who said that, "no one really wanted to pull Beverley back, so I just tried to get in position for the field sprint. Someone clipped a pedal on the ground in the last corner and everyone froze, so I took off."
Before placing fifth in the Pro/1/2 race, Metcalfe earned the same result in earlier in the day in the Masters 35+ 1/2/3 race, won by Larry Nolan (Discovery Channel Masters).
Other race winners in Lafayette were Wendy Hermes (Travis Hawks) in the Women 4 race, Mickey Caldwell in the Masters 55+, Steve Gregorios (Morgan Stanley/24HR Fitness/Specialized) in the Masters 45+, Chris Carscadden (WTB/Santa Cruz) in the Masters 35+ 4/5, Ken Owen (Pegasus/Vandenberghe Properties) in the Elite 3 race, and Ken Arizpe (Kovarus/Squadra Ovest) in the Elite 4 field.
The 2nd annual Lafayette Criterium was the seventh of nine races in the Northern California/Nevada Cycling Association's 2006 NCNCA Premier Series, which wraps up in September with the Giro di San Francisco and the Carrera de San Rafael.
Results
Men 1 Gordon McCauley (Successful Living) 2 Eric Wohlberg (Symmetrics) 3 Roman Killun (Healthnet) 4 Richard Delvalle (Club 1) 5 Kevin Metcalfe (Pacific Coast Cycling) 6 Takumi Shimomura (3Brt) 7 Dean Leberge (Lombardi Sports) 8 Ray Uthman (McGuire) 9 Todd Hennings (Pacific State Bank / Anderson) 10 Christopher Hipp (Labor Power) 11 Rob Evans (Rhvilla.Com) 12 James Badia (Webcor/Alto Velo) 13 Bill Howard (Gs Lombardi) 14 Gen Koquire (3Brt) 15 Steve Alvarez (Club 1) 16 Joshua Tack (Two Bee Racing/U. Of Montana) 17 Philip Roberts (McGuire) 18 John Staroba (Eastside Cycles / Marin) 19 Dave Galvin (Bmc Racing Team) 20 Adam Ross (Davis Bike Club) 21 Perry Bryson (Successful Living) 22 Mack Chew (Arete Racing/Vellum Cycles) 23 Erick Pierce (Aaron's/L5Flyers) 24 Dylan Seguin (Solano/Cliff) 25 Rand Miller (Club1) 26 Jeff Caton (Crc/Hill&Co) 27 Vance Ehlers 28 Aaron Adell (Rhvilla.Com) 29 Scott Derdenyer (Mako/Galaxy) 30 Kevin King (Pegasus/Vandenberghe) 31 Jason Williams (Team Spine) 32 Robert Newman (Anderson) 33 Herman Johnson (Cal Strawberries) 34 Matt Ream (Reno Wheelmen) 35 Tim Granshaw (Anderson) 36 Steve Reaney (Cal Giant) Women 1 Beverley Harper (Touchstone Climbing) 2 Mary Ellen Ash (Velo Girls) 3 Shelley Olds (Proman) 4 Jenny Eyerman (Morgan Stanley) 5 Flavia Oliveri (Palo Alto Bicycle Works) 6 Jane Robertson (Cycling Training) 7 Carola Berger (Alto Velo) 8 Emily Zell (Proman) 9 India Sanjuan (Touchstone Climbing) 10 Ashlee Zimmer (Eastside Cycles) 11 Maryann Levenson (Bay Area Velo Girls) 12 Nina Patterson (Left Coast) 13 Yakie Nakamara (Easton/Specialized) 14 Caroline Northrup (Pegasus/Vandenberghe Propertie) 15 Luciana Vecchi (Velo Bella) 16 Andrea Glassberg (Kovaris/Squadra Ovest) 17 Rita Szeto (Nor Cal Velo) 18 Tracy Barhydt (Eastside Cycles/Marin) 19 Patricia Ross (Touchstone Climbing) 20 Kate Maher (Morgan Stanley) 21 Carole Irving (Cycling Training) 22 Jana Roberts (Proman)
