Race Reports and Results
Submitted by Ed McNelis The juniors had a great day riding in clear weather with modest temps (51 degrees with 12 mph winds compared to last year when it was 36 degrees, driving rain, and winds gusting over 20 mph). Parker Brookfield finished 2nd in the Boys 10-14 and Taylor Clark finished a very respectable 6th in [...]
Submitted by Marc Warner Snowball #2 was held on Sunday under the beautiful sunny skies of Chesapeake, VA. We traveled down with a small squad of 3 and were the benefactors of an extended warmup as none of the previous 3 fields could safely navigate the back corner with the bump on the inside and [...]
Submitted by Dan King GREAT DAY! – Today was one of those team days were it just all came together…nice – Started with the usual flurry of attacks- Warner & I managed to get into a great move that should have been the one that stuck…but Mark Hardman got on the front of the field [...]
17- Jay Catlett 34- Dan Schmitt The morning started as a cold, cloudy, and windy day. I hopped on the trainer in full winter weight gear and started taking layers off as I got warm. I ended up racing in just summer weight shorts, under armor cold gear and my TNP Jersey. I was one [...]
Results from one of the emails that everyone received today: 15- Joel Miller 18-Tony Miller 27-Joe Panella 33-Frank Yeager 40-Oliver Dujua 49-Chris Tarczynski Also represented, but not ranked: Ed Baumgartner Ed Bump Rob Cook Rick Levesque Mike Yengling From my point of view: I was a little late to the line and started at the [...]
Submitted by Ed McNelis. Maria was out of town on Saturday, but Elizabeth Keith, one of our newest teammates, rode brilliantly winning the Women’s Cat 4 event in her first road race. A great start to what should be a very strong season for TNP women. Our juniors also came out of the gate strong [...]
As Joel Miller probably realizes giving an interesting blow by blow account of a bicycle race contested on a race track is fairly difficult. At least its difficult to make it interesting. The pro 123 race was a stacked field with full squads from Harley, Haymarket, TNP and Richmond pro being the big players. Fresh [...]
Tales from the trenches as told by the one guy who has no idea whats going on…. Sunday was the first of 2 Snowball “training crits” We showed up with a small but determined squad and waited to see how our colleagues winters went. The race was held in Chesapeake in a 4 corner industrial [...]
The day started off with them shortening the P 1-2 road race from 105 miles to 88 miles at the start line. The race overall was a suffer fest the temps were about 80 and humid and the pace was like a slinky going from 15mph to 40 mph, very windy and a terrible cross [...]
Race two was a 3 mile pro log and Marc Warner and Mark King put the Hammer down. Warner ended up with 7th place at 6:05 and King ended up with 18th at 6:18, I as usual had my TT parachute open and came in with a time of 6:50. Overall this is where we [...]