Welcome to Portland Velo's race team! In our third season and now numbering over 80 racers, Portland Velo more than exceeded any expectations. With 40 victories, 100 podium finishes and 13 state titles, Portland Velo finished 3rd Overall in the OBRA Team BAR behind two teams that race mainly in Southern Oregon's smaller fields.
It’s pretty cool how this team was formed. We started out with a handful of riders, hammering each other every Saturday morning and laughing about it afterwards at our favorite coffee shop. This weekly barbaric ritual went on for a couple of years before we finally decided to start our own team so we could share our passion for pain with others. Today we are over 80 riders strong covering the majority of racing categories and disciplines, including road, stage races, mountain biking, track, and cyclocross. When we're not riding, we’re talking about it several times a day through our race team forum. It’s here we communicate race results, impromptu rides, or if you’re feeling kind of feisty, you can talk some smack.
With all of the amazing sponsors and resources we have, watch out for Portland Velo to be one of the top teams in the state of Oregon in 2010.
If you want to hear what the buzz is all about contact Matt D'Elia by email.
Notes From Our Directeur Sportif
July 2010
The team has had a busy June and start of July. Summer has finally
arrived, and with it the first of the OBRA Championship races. To kick
off June, we had a small handful of racers in the first major stage race
of the summer, the Mt Hood cycling Classic. Brendan Treacy gutted it
out in the pro race, with Alex Kroman and Mitch Lee in the Cat3, and
Jeff Pollock in the Cat4. Mitch placed 6th in the GC which was enough
for him to receive his upgrade to Cat2. Mitch is the first home grown
Cat2 from PV, and we are incredibly proud of his achievement. Jeff
Pollock took 2nd on the GC in the Cat4 race, which combined with his
strong showing the rest of this year earned him his Cat3 upgrade.
Congrats to the both of them!
Other highlights of June
included Kevin O'Connell and Todd Rosier winning their divisions in the
Vernonia Short Track MTB Race, Javad Simonsen's first career win coming
over
at the PIR Short
Track Series, and Cindy McCasker, Al Ledesma, Judi Davis, and Susan
Chamberlain going 1-4 at a PIR Monday night race. Cindy capped off a
huge June by winning the Points Jersey for the woman's race on Monday
night for the June series, along with winning the Firecracker TT and
coming in second place in the Firecracker Crit.
After accumulating enough points in the Cat4's by winning the 7/8 Omnium
event, he was given the option to race as a Cat3 in the OBRA Track
Championships this past weekend. Brian decided to go test himself in
the Cat3 group and ended up winning the OBRA Championship in the Kilo,
Match Sprints, and 4k Pursuit on back to back to back days. Huge
congrats to Brian! Joseph Boquiren also won the Cat4 4k pursuit!
Awesome work to our newest State Champions.
In the upcoming weeks we've got a crew heading to Bend for the
Cascade Classic, a number of people competing in the Larch Mountain
Hillclimb Championship, and the crew continuing to pound sand (and dirt,
and rocks, and gravel) out at the PIR short track events.
In
closing, I'd like to thank Russ Speirn for his 2+ years of work as our
order coordinator for our Clif sponsorship. Russ will be passing the
baton to Steve Steiner starting on the next order. Big thanks to the
two of you for your involvement.
See you next month!
-m
You can buy RACE TEAM t-shirts, etc. at the CafePress store here.
UPCOMING RACES
The main race schedule is on OBRA's website.
2010 OBRA schedule is here.
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Portland Velo Race Team Sponsors
Please support our race team sponsors with your patronage:
DeFeet
Upper Echelon Fitness
Madison's Grill and Catering
VeloVie Bicycles
Rudy Project
Clif Bar
Pactimo
The Human Bean
Sportsbalm
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Health, Fitness and Training Articles
Cycling and the Benefits of Massage, by Laura Green, LMT
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Time Trial Turn-Arounds Made Easy, by Russell Cree, DPT, CSCS
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