Vultures Knob Race #2

Team Soupcan assulted The Knob this past Saturday for the local Knob series race. This one gets a smaller turnout than the OMBC series but brings the same level of competition if not harder. I raced Sport U39 and brought home 3rd again. Need to upgrade that 21. Fun race. Seemed harder than the 1st one. I had two crashes. One was a downhill powerslide and the other was a not-looking-in-front-of-me-hit-a-log-wreck. Soupcan crashed and burned. John and Wes got 3rd and 4th in Expert 36+.

OMBC Race #4 The Wilds.

Wes, John and I journeyed down to Central Ohio to race at The Wilds. Dr. Soupcan stayed behind to hold the fort down and tickle some toes. The course was fast and rocky. If I had to race it again I would of slapped a 19 or a 20 on the back instead of a 21. I'm finding that a 21 might be too easy for racing in general. But back to the race. John and Wes went off in the Vet open class and I raced Sport 31-40. I managed to pull off 3rd in my class while John got 3rd and Wes 5th. It was a sweet course with rocks and roots that popped up around corner and turn that I'm pretty sure took all of us out during the day. Heres a few pics of us climbing towards the finish. You have to look hard at the pic of me since I was climbing so fast. Look for the blur.

OMBC Race #2 Vultures Knob

The four of us tackled The Knob race this weekend on a beautiful sunny day in the lower 70's at race start. A completely different change in the weather from the first day. The course was fast and dry Drawing a record number of people. Competition was was plenty due to the harsh conditions of the first race.

John ended the big winner of the day taking 1st in the open vet against a tough field and Wes hung in there to finish 5th on the day. Jason hung in there to finish a tough race and I ended up taking 2nd in the sport 31-40 class. Two races and no DNF's for our team. Team Soupcan is already making a good run in the OMBC.

The race was hard on the singlespeeders because we were sent down a dirt road into Mazeville in a little prolouge to help thin the huge packs out before making it to the rock tunnel area at the beging of the course. Then we found ourselves fighting our way through and around a number of bikers once the course turned upwards.

The Knob is back in full swing again after a couple of years on the downlow thanks in part from a number of sponsors and to the Solon Bike club for reviving the series and The Knob.

Knob ride 4/13/08

Total Time (h:m:s) 0:43:43 7:24 pace
Moving Time (h:m:s) 0:43:15 7:19 pace
Distance (mi ) 5.90
Moving Speed (mph) 8.2 avg. 23.7 max.
Elevation Gain (ft) +1,198 / -1,195

Temperature (°F) 47.6°F avg. 50°F high
Wind Speed ( mph) ESE 15.7 avg. ESE 17.2 max.

OMBC Race #1 Mohican Wilderness

Throw it all at me! The only things missing from this race were an earthquake and a tornado. All four Team Soupcan members took to a cold, rainy, snowy, sleety mudfest that at the post race celebration was agreed to be one of the harshest races in worse conditions that we have ever done. This course has the hardest climb in Ohio and another on the backside just as equally terrible and the weather beatdown resulted in pushing the bikes up about 90% of both hills. Wes, John and Jason did the three lap open vet race and finished 3rd, 4th and 5th and beat up on plenty of young dude experts. I tackled the sport vertan category and finished 5th for the day and damn near cracked top ten overall. But this race made a man out of anybody who attempted and finished it.

Mo-Ho Warm up.

Team Soupcan took to the beautiful Mohican Wilderness for a couple of warm up laps before the first team race next Sunday. Everyone seems dialed in and ready to go. This race promises to be one of the toughest of the year. Three laps and close to thirty miles on some of the funnest terrain ohio has to offer. We wil be racing in our OCC kits for this one but soon will have our Team Soupcan kits to sport for the rest of the year!