2010 BCC Racing Bible

2010 BCC Racing Bible – “Suffer with Friends”

About BCC


The Bonneville Cycling Club (BCC) is the oldest and largest cycling club in Utah. BCC sponsors literally hundreds of informal rides every year, found on our online Ride Calendar at www.bccutah.org BCC sponsors Little Red Riding Hood, the largest women-only century in the United States, and ULCER (Utah Lake Century Epic Ride), the longest running cycling event in Utah. BCC also sponsors informal ride series within the club, such as the Social Series, the Metric Series (a series of metric centuries) and the Superseries (a series of centuries.)


About BCC Racing


BCC Racing is a division of BCC. Therefore you must be a BCC member to belong to BCC Racing. Our mission statement is “Cyclists synergistically suffering to improve racing skills in a fun, friendly, competitive, and supportive team environment. (We're too busy racing to create a decent mission statement.)” We place an emphasis on cooperation, personal and team improvement, and fun.


BCC Racing History


In summer 2007 Team BBTC was established to race Lotoja (Bonneville Bicycle Touring Club was the former club name.) In spring 2008 we began to enter other UCA races besides Lotoja, and we changed our name as the main club changed its name to BCC. 2010 will be the 4th year for BCC Racing, and a year of significant change. BCC Racing will be rebuilding with renewed support from the main club with our focus on improving our racing performance as individuals and as a team, and hosting ULCER in preparation for receiving UCA sanction.


2010 Race Focus List


Tour of the Depot Stage Race


East Canyon Road Race


Bear Lake Classic Road Race


Garden Creek Gap Road Race


Little Mountain Road Race


High Uintah Stage Race


Porcupine Hill Climb


Capitol Reef Stage Race


Chalk Creek Road Race


1000 Warriors/Snowbird Hill Climb


LOTOJA

Team Benefits


Qualified teammates will receive race fee reimbursement at the rate of 50% of their total fees for UCA road races that they complete (DNF’s will not be reimbursed). Face value of the race fee will be used for the 50% computation; no handling fees, donations, or merchandise will be reimbursed, and the maximum amount reimbursed may be limited to $500. Qualified teammates will also receive 50% reimbursement for the first team kit they purchase.


BCC Racing is open to both male and female racers.


Team Requirements


Provisional teammates: Requirements are:


• Pay BCC dues ($25/single person)


• Purchase team kit (estimated $120)


• Purchase USAC annual license ($60)


• Purchase UCA timing chip ($42)


• Finally, we recognize our responsibility as ambassadors from BCC to the rest of the Utah cycling community


o Teammates are expected to display the highest level of sportsmanship and courtesy at all times


o Teammates are expected to support the main BCC club by offering advice as requested, sharing riding and nutrition tips, riding with the club at the beginning of rides, and being sociable and encouraging


Qualified teammates: Can be partially reimbursed for race fees and team kit. Additional requirements are:


• Finish 5 UCA sanctioned road races in 2010 as a provisional teammate wearing team kit


o Only the road race portion of a UCA stage race counts towards the 5 road races


o DNF’s (for any reason) do not count towards the 5 road races (and are not reimbursable)


o RMR and DMV crits do not count towards the 5 road races


o Salt Aire and other TT’s do not count towards the 5 road races


o Races completed in 2010 before joining BCC Racing do not count towards the 5 road races


• Volunteer for ULCER


o Needs to be a full-day volunteer at ULCER


o If teammate is within the first 10 positions in the rankings for his/her category on July 1st, that racer may race a different UCA race the day of ULCER, provided that he/she has discussed the situation with the team captain and volunteered for alternate ULCER assistance


• Currently the BCC Board has allocated funds to support 15 qualified teammates


o First 15 teammates to finish 5 UCA road races become qualified


o Additional funds may be allocated by the BCC Board for additional qualified teammates


USA Cycling Licensing


USA Cycling issues racer licenses and creates the USA racing rules. You can join USA Cycling for $60/year at www.usacycling.org They have a FAQ for new racers at www.usacycling.org/news/user/story.php?id=2622


UCA is the Utah Cycling Association and is the state chapter of USA Cycling. You automatically become a member of UCA when you purchase an annual license from USA cycling. UCA sanctions all cycling events in Utah. They have a website at www.cycleutah.com and a New Racer FAQ at www.cycleutah.com/content/NewRacerFAQ.aspx

Training opportunities


• BCC offers many club rides which have been traditionally used by the race team for training


o The Superseries is key for training racers


o Tuesday night Emigration climb


o Thursday night Bike and Brew


• Additional training opportunities are offered by other weeknight races


o RMR Tuesday night crits are excellent training races


o DMV Wednesday night crits are excellent training races


o Thursday night Salt Aire TT’s are good for training


• Additional training rides are being considered


o Monday night or Wednesday night Emigration climb for those who can’t make Tuesday


o Wednesday night training ride for those who can’t make Thursday


o Wednesday BCC series “Hump Day Trainer”


BCC Racing on the Web


Here is a summary of the technologies available for BCC Racing. Anyone wanting to use these resources needs a Google account. This account can be managed from https://www.google.com/accounts/.


Google Group “BCC Racing” - This is a discussion place where the Team and anyone interested in the team can communicate. Any email sent to bcc-racing@googlegroups.com ends up at http://groups.google.com/group/bcc-racing. You can request to join the group at the same address after you have created a Google account. Membership is open to everyone.


Google Group “BCC Racing Team” - This is a secure discussion place where the Team can communicate. Any email sent to bcc-racing-team@googlegroups.com ends up at http://groups.google.com/group/bcc-racing-team. You will be automatically added to this group after you join the team. Membership is limited to Provisional and Qualified BCC Racing teammates, and members of the BCC Board of Directors.


Blog - http://bccracing.blogspot.com - Everyone can read our blog entries. Anyone in BCC Racing can contribute once they have completed the invitation process.

Williams cycling wheels season report

In 2009 we were fortunate enough to receive a discount for excellent lightweight, durable, ceramic-bearing wheels from Williams Cycling. Here is a report of our team's top ten results while on Williams wheels. Nice job!

Racer - Category - Wheelset
Event	Date	Place
Eric Dupuis - Cat 4 - Williams system 19
Garden Creek Gap	5/16/2009	6
1000 Warriors	8/22/2009	10
Liam O'Donnell - Cat 5 - Williams system 30
Tour of the Depot stage 3	4/12/2009	9
Tour of the Depot overall	4/12/2009	8
Sugarhouse criterium	5/23/2009	3
High Uintas stage 2	6/21/2009	8
High Uintas stage 3	6/21/2009	4
Harvest moon criterium	9/26/2009	3
Stephen Rogers - Cat 5 - Williams system 30
Tour of the Depot stage 3	4/12/2009	7
Tour of the Depot overall	4/12/2009	7
Adam Taylor - Cat 5 - Williams system 38
Tour de Park City	8/1/2009	3
1000 Warriors	8/22/2009	10
LOTOJA	9/12/2009	8

24 hours of Moab course video...

Here is a video of the course so that we know what to expect is we decide to do it in the future.

Following Ryan...

We had a good turn out for City Creek this morning. Travis, Ryan, Todd C., Kerry, Kerry's friend, John, and Rogers showed up for a fun ride with good weather and plenty of laughs....until Ryan put the hammer down! Watch the first couple of minutes of this video to see how it felt. I will give you a hint...I wasn't Lance.

Salt to Saint Relay 2009

Salt to Saint 2009

It reminded me a lot of the slumber parties I had with my friends in my youth, or the scout campouts with all the guys in my ward. It was a fun and crazy cycling marathon. We stayed a wake all night long laughing, joking, mocking, eating junk food, drinking cokes, telling stories, and doing many individual time trials.

This was supposed to be a team relay race of 385 miles from Salt Lake to St. George. It ended up being a fun ride of about 398 miles. Because of the accident in American Fork canyon during the 1000 Warrior ride, the permits needed to make this a sanctioned event became impossible to get in the time leading up to the ride. So the organizers decided to just hand out maps for the remaining teams that wanted to do it as a fun ride. It was scheduled to start Friday at noon and go all night. We were told that some other teams decided to leave a little earlier. We decided to leave at noon.

As we prepared to leave Jerry Bergosh showed up and sent us off with a cheer. The four team members were Adam, Brent, Stan, and Rogers. Stan started the first leg and had to ride from Liberty Park to the foot of Suncrest. We decided to split the Suncrest climb up into two sections so that we didn’t destroy anyone’s legs too early. I took the first leg of Suncrest and Adam took the hard section at the top and took us over and all the way out to Saratoga. I then took a 20 mile leg on the back side of Utah Lake with Stan working with me on the last ten miles. Then Brent continued on to Payson with Stan going with him the first 10 miles. We decided to break Mt. Nebo into 3 legs with Adam, Brent, and I taking turns. We made it over the top and Brent took us down while there was still daylight.

At Nephi I took over again, but we were starting to lose day light and it was time for the lights and reflective clothing. An unfortunate side effect of the reflective clothing for me was that it messed up my heart rate monitor and speedometer. The rest of the guys were in the truck and were following me when all of sudden they disappeared. Later I found out they stopped at a Burger King because the earlier stop at Subway just wasn’t enough, or was Burger King, because later we hit McDonald’s too. For the next 150 miles or so after Nephi it felt like we were almost always going slightly uphill except for a few small descents. We rotated about every hour. Adam had to swerve to miss a large rattle snake on the side of the road. As the night progressed and our tiredness increased, talk of Jackalopes, crop circles, and strange people(Aliens?) on the side of the road crept into our increasingly funny comments. We had to explain to a Highway Patrol what we were doing. I am not sure we even knew what we were doing. The roads were almost completely empty from midnight to about 6 a.m.

Between about 3:30 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. we hit freezing conditions with the thermometer hitting as low as 27 degrees. I shook for 40 minutes after my leg and my toes screamed obscenities at me while they defrosted. Finally we had a long section of downhill to Mt. Carmel Junction. Stan took most of the climb up to Zions Canyon and illegally rode through the long tunnel where he claims the truck sounded like a tank chasing him.

We learned all sorts of trivia about the Sun from our very own Solar Encyclopedia, Stan. It turns out that if you give that guy 400 milligrams of caffeine and deprive him of sleep there is no stopping him.

Brent took us down Zions Canyon and I finished the last leg into St. George. We finished 398 miles in 21 hours and 11 minutes which is about 18.8 miles an hour average. We celebrated by eating at Denny’s and kicking back in a hot tub. It was a blast to spend the night with such awesome team mates. It will be an experience I will always remember, but it was sooo nice to lay my head on a pillow and finally get a few hours of shut eye.

Sanpete Road Race 2009

I started off by riding up to the ride with Higgins and Brent which is much more entertaining than driving it alone. We got a little frustrated with how slow the packet pick up line was moving. They finally just started handing out the numbers to everyone which was super nice. I was a little worried because I was still carrying 4 extra pounds from my vacation and had been sick during the week and I could still feel some junk in my lungs and was coughing every once in a while.

The race got off to a bang, literally! They shot off a canon, which sent the heart rate of John Ward up by 40 beats per minute. The pace was fast from the start. At about mile 9 or 10 we started climbing a little and Dwayne decided it would be nice to split the peloton, so he hit the climb hard. We lost John, Higgins, and Travis and about 20 other cat. 5's as they were spit out the back. I slipped to the back of the remaining peloton and was on the verge of becoming a casualty myself. I even saw Adam slide back a lot which surprised me.

The remaining peloton regrouped and we started trying to implement our team tactics. On a few occasions we grouped up front and tried to let Adam go. The peloton kept chasing him down. Liam, Brent, and I also tried but the peloton wouldn't let us go. It felt great to go to the front as a team and then block for another team mate and draft off of the chasers. Mentally I felt like we belonged at the front. I didn't feel like a small fish in a big pond anymore, I felt like a team of sharks in a small pond. At mile 40 we caught the cat. 4's who had started 5 minutes ahead of us. That really felt great.

We hit the water stop with the cat. 4 group and it was kind of a mess. I knew it was going to be a mess so I sprinted up the road to be get my water bottle first. I then slowed down to wait for my group. Alot of cat 4's came flying by with one cat 5 in their group. We regrouped with all the cat 4's in front of us now and the cat 5's behind. We knew that 1 cat 5 was in the cat 4 group and he rode the rest of the way with them and won the cat 5's.

Shortly after the water stop when we were regrouping I heard the sound of a flat tire and looked over and it was Liam. He was bummed. He only needed a couple of points to take over 1 place in the cat. 5 points standing. The thought crossed my mind that if he had the same pedals I could just trade bikes with him. It never crossed my mind until after the race when he brought up that we could have traded wheels with him. Sorry Liam!

Shortly after some other guy went off the front and the leaders in the peloton said to let him go alone. Another guy chased him down and that put two guys out front. After they got a small lead, another guy tried to bridge the gap and Brent got on his wheel along with two other guys which made a chase group of 4 or 5. They chased for a couple of miles and finally absorbed them. They now had 5 or 6 guys working together and had a good lead on the peloton of about 200 yards or so. They lead for about 5 miles. They had a reasonable chance of going all the way because of the mix in the break away many of the fast guys in the peloton weren't going to chase them down. Unfortunately they hit a bad section of road which made it impossible to rotate and they were caught by the peloton.

At about mile 60 I was hanging out at the back of the peloton and feeling pretty tired. I tried to stand up at one point and I felt a twinge of a cramp go through my leg. I quickly sat back down. I knew that I was in trouble at that point. Every time I tried to pedal hard I could feel twinges of cramps. With 3 miles to go at mile 64 we went up a little grade and I couldn't put enough pressure on the pedals to stay with the peloton and was dropped. I was easily with in reach of them if I could put any real pressure on the pedals. For the next two miles I dangled off the back by 50 to 100 yards with the fear that I was going to have an all out cramp attack.

Then I could see the peloton slow down because the cat. 4 peloton was only 30 seconds in front of them. I rejoined the peloton with 1k to go and then the sprint started. I knew that if I stood up that I would immediately cramp, so I just paced myself in easy with Dwayne, who wasn't even trying at this point.

We finished 67 miles in 2 hours and 45 minutes. That is 24.35 miles an hour. Wow! We beat the cat. 4's best time by about 5 minutes and the peloton slowed up for them on a few occasions.

Liam came across about 10 minutes later, which is amazing considering he had to fix a flat and probably didn't have many riders to draft off of. John, Higgins, and Travis came in about 10 minutes behind Liam. They averaged about 22 miles an hour which is also very good.

Racing rule 1: Don't do anymore work than you need to.

Thanx to Zazoosh at the Tour de Park City we can enhance our education of this rule by reviewing some action shots.

Here we see Adam dragging the whole Cat 5 group:


Here's Rogers dragging his own group back to the front of Cat 5:


Here's Dean...dragging a Cat 3 group along...


Ok...did anyone listen to this rule so well explained by Coach Nate at Hakenya?

Ah, here's the star pupil - Good job Mason! Let the others suffer!


You know I kid. I almost wish I took part in this suffer fest with you. Maybe next year. Nice job to all of you, you look good out there. Here are a few more nice shots:

Adam
Rogers
Brent
Higgins
Mason
Dean