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Asheville Training Series #6
French Broad River Park, June 25
Asheville racing growth continues
By Chris Camm
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The high chance of thunderstorms failed to spoil the party as a steamy day yielded to a hot summer night at the French Broad River Park. Session number six is now recorded and we have reached the halfway point of the season. High summer brought out the largest fields of the meet, and each category was packed with its top players.
The youth races were on display with an array of riders on mounts of all shapes and sizes. After that opener, and then the fixed gear scratch race (won by Brian Pierce of course), the women produced a full field for their points race. Allison Hardy and Jennifer Petosa repeated past results while dominating the 25 laps and are now separated by one point for the season's prize. Debra Elliot drove over from Hickory and put in a consistent ride to complete the podium.
The B points race covered 30 laps and churned out a real brawl between Thomas Burns (Nantahala Outdoor Center) and Blair Hobgood (Asheville Bicycle Racing Club) until a backstretch pile up ended the latter's evening. After a few neutral laps, everyone walked away and Mr. Burns sailed on for the victory. He was followed home by Drew Snelfer and Jeff Parker, and now leads the table among active riders. (Mr. Pierce will likely lead the standings for another fortnight despite having moved on to loftier pastures.)
The Masters race wheeled out some 32 riders. Randy Parker decided to double up this week and interfere with the private duel between Joey Coddington and Darby Harris. To no one's surprise, Parker proved the fastest, besting Coddington and a quietly lurking Treavis Taylor. Harris salvaged a fourth on points to stay in contention for the season overall. Many of the same players lined up for the 60 lap A race (30 km) which went on a rail from the start. Parker put it out of reach by 10 to go and Coddington nailed the last sprint for double points to beat back the challenge of world-class, Canadian mountain biker Chris Sheppard, who was cross training no doubt. Ditto the Masters, Harris finished fourth...
Interspersed in all these feature length races, the Fixed riders played around with an unknown distance scratch race, a miss and out, and a 15 lap points race. Brian Pierce swept the card while Mike Koerschner took second on a tie breaker from Herb Young. Todd Tamplin finished fourth and still leads the season's count. He must be hoping Pierce has another business trip coming up...
Many thanks again to Asheville Parks and Recreation Department, and all our sponsors: Hearn's Cycling and Fitness, Asheville Bicycle Racing Club, Liberty Bikes, Cane Creek Cycling Components, Asheville Family Health Center, Dr. Steve Miller, DDS, and The Musician's Workshop.
Photography
Images courtesy George Riedesel
- Official Gary Clark and promoter Chris Kamm go over a sprint
- Mike 'the Mentor' Smith about to teach a lesson to race promoter George Riedesel
- Mike keeping watch as Todd looks to put a hurt on the field
- The women's field - someday they'll be on track bikes too!
- Koerschner challenges Pierce
Results
Scratch Race - Unknown Distance 1 Brian Pierce 2 Michael Koerschner 3 Todd Tamplin 4 Herb Young 5 Jim McMillan Miss-n-Out 1 Brian Pierce 2 Herb Young 3 George Riedesel 4 Chris Kamm 5 Todd Tamplin Points Race - 15 laps 1 Brian Pierce 2 Michael Koerschner 3 Herb Young 4 Chris Kamm 5 Steve Miller Year Total Omnium Points 1 Todd Tamplin 31 2 Brian Pierce 30 3 Mike Koerschner 15 4 Herb Young 13 5 Bruce Berry 10 6 Marc Mullinax 7 7 George Riedesel 5 8 Chris Kamm 3 9 Joey Coddington 1 Category "A" Points Race 1 Randy Parker 41 2 Joey Coddington 23 3 Chris Sheppard 19 4 Darby Harris 13 5 Patrick McLoughlin 10 6 Robbie Higdon 10 7 Scott Duncan 9 8 Brian Pierce 7 9 Adam Penney 6 10 Clark Hollins 3 11 Russell Kelley 1 12 Mark Brown 1 Year Total Omnium Points 1 Joey Coddington 28 2 Randy Parker 24 3 Darby Harris 20 4 Chris Sheppard 8 5 Andrew Crarter 7 6 Kent Williams 5 7 Jacob McGaahey 3 8 Michael Lantz 3 9 Patrick McLoughlin 3 10 Julian Hine 2 11 JC Rummel 2 12 Greg Brown 1 13 Colin Izzard 1 14 Dean Lyous 1 Category "B" Points Race 1 Thomas Burns 24 2 Drew Shelfer 11 3 Jeff Parker 8 4 Blair Hobgood 7 5 Wesley Dickson 5 6 Andy Grabowski 5 7 David Forkner 5 8 Ron Heninger 4 9 Ron Slagle 4 10 Scott Lowery 2 11 Mark Scholtz 1 12 David Lovett 1 Year Total Omnium Points 1 Brian Pierce 19 2 Thomas Burns 14 3 Blair Hobgood 13 4 Robert Schoen 10 5 Eric White 10 6 Greg Brown 8 7 Patrick Brittain 7 8 James Shelfer 5 9 Blake Sagar 3 10 David Forkner 3 11 Thomas Cason 3 12 Allan Smith 3 13 Jeff Parker 3 14 James Shelfer 2 15 Michael Boone 2 16 Bill McBee 1 17 Matthew Sescilla 1 18 Scott Rousseau 1 19 Wesley Dickson 1 Master's Points Race 1 Randy Parker 22 2 Joey Coddington 20 3 T-Bone Taylor 11 4 Robbie Higdon 10 5 Darby Harris 9 6 Brian Elliot 6 7 Brandon Miller 5 8 Art Shuster 3 9 Michael Koerschner 2 Year Total Omnium Points 1 Joey Coddington 31 2 Darby Harris 24 3 T-Bone Taylor 15 4 Randy Parker 12 5 Kent Williams 5 6 Brian Elliot 5 7 Michael Koerschner 4 8 Jeffery Haase 3 9 Todd Tamplin 3 10 Paul Mittelstadt 3 11 Robbie Higdon 2 12 Scott Lunsford 1 13 Ray Von Dohlen 1 Women's Points Race 1 Allison Hardy 24 2 Jennifer Petosa 18 3 Deborah Elliot 14 4 Monica Koerschner 8 5 Saundra Hardy 2 Year Total Omnium Points 1 Jennifer Petosa 15 2 Allison Hardy 14 3 Annette Kamm 5 4 Patricia Pinner 5 5 Monica Koerschner 4 6 Robin Pace 3 7 Deborah Elliot 3 8 Cara Mcauley 2 9 Laura Bowles 1 10 Jessie Karriker 1 11 Saundra Hardy 1
