SEPTEMBER

The Wooden Wheels team hung up their fat knobby tires for some road slicks and a fast flat paved loop at the Pedal Away Prostate Cancer road race in Dover, DE. It’s not clear if the primary motivator for the large tunrout was opportunity to raise cancer awareness or free post-race beers. Either way a great race with some seriously fast speeds resulted in a couple podiums and a couple crashes. In the mens under 40 race Andrew Webser topped off the team results with a 2nd place followed by Rob DiSibio in 6th, Ricardo Gomez in 7th, Sebastian in 11th, Uriel Bohorquez in 12 after being tangled up in a crash that involved Chef Jeff Burress as well. Additionally Trevor made himself at home filling in from the Wooden Wheels Tri Team. Jenny Gomez nabbed a stellar 2nd place for the under 40 ladies division and Mags Crilley take home the whole kit and caboodle in 1st place for the over 40 ladies.



And now that the summer has wound down its time to break out that rigid off road beast known as the cyclocross bike and the 400 Acre DuPont Estate was ready! Kicking things off with Granogue Cross the girls showed up ready to roll nabbing a 9th place by Nancy DiSibio and Kim Webster 12th in the  at 3/4 field. Barriers, some punchy climbs, off-camber serpentines, and a little mud couldn't deter the Wooden Wheels Racing team. Heather started the CX season strong with a 10th place in the Cat 1/2/3 field to round out the womens results. The boys Ed and Rob raced into 19th and 26th respectively in Cat 4/5 while Andrew Webster found himself in 27th in Cat 1/2/3. 

And lots of thanks and kudos go out to our cheering & support squad: Collin, Eric, Matera, Pete, Dennis, Urion, Margo, Baby Kate, Baby Claire, Kimmie's Mom, & the always faithful parents.

We interrupt this regularly scheduled 'cross season report to also inform you of one more mountain bike race! Webb competed in the Wolf Bouncer MTB Derby in Annandale, VA, Sat Sep 20, 2014, and won the SS Open division! Wahoo Webb!

Charm City Cross was back for 2014 with two days of racing with some new and improved course features.....Both days, the course threw you right into the fire with a bottleneck hairpin right-hand turn shortly after the starting sprint. For the men's fields, with over 100 racers, it was like rolling Armageddon and they fought for position into the bottleneck. Day 1 then took you for another hair pin right up some man-made steps that seemed to get steeper each lap! Including 4 sand crossings that sucked the life right out of your legs and left you with sandbags for shoes. To throw in some fun, they added a fly over for show! Day 2 basically reversed the direction of much of the course, but the elevation was just a brutal in the 90 deg heat. Despite all the chicanery, the course was super dry and fast. Heather represented WWR in the UCI Elite Women's races, finishing 32/40 Day 1 & 34/40 Day 2. Way to go Heather!!!! 



Webb, Kimmie (& Claire) and Heather ventured down to Winchester to mix it up with the Super8 Series. AppleCross is a mtn biker friendly course - and in fact I saw several racers rocking Canndale Leftys! The course had a little bit of everything - fast dry speed sections, hair pin turns, several off-chambers, some woods and roots. Also included the "Belgian Wall!!!," which most had to run up. Top that all off to make the day complete with a post-race Apple Pie!.

Webb landed 13th for Men Open, Kimmie 20th in the Cat 3/4 women, and Heather 8th (winning some of that apple pie, nice!!) in the Cat 1/2/3 women.

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