Another year.......another Nutcracker.......

.......So, we finished up today with the Annual Nutcracker Omnium - a local Chico cycling event where riders do 4 stages over the course of 5 days. 1st Stage is the Wednesday Fast 50....a flat local group ride with 3 intermediate sprints for "Stop Ahead" signs, and then the final sprint on West Sacramento Avenue. We got video of the first stage - see HERE. Stage 2 was the Thursday River Road 10-mile Time Trial.......Stage 3 was the Saturday Honey Run Road Race.......and Sunday's stage was the 4th and final stage - the Cohasset Uphill Time Trial. Here are the results for today's Cohasset Uphill Time Trial:

1. Aren Timmel 19:36 (New Course Record!)
2. Kevin Speacht 20:30
3. Rich Thurman 20:40
4. Mike Ricks 20:43
5. David Albrecht 20:50
6. Jim Roberts 21:19
7. Steve Smead 21:30(On a fixed gear!)
8. Mark Reimer 21:45 (On a leaking tire!)
9. Walter Lohse 22:00
10. David Kyle 22:28
11. Tim Creswell 22:42
12. Mark Bloom 23:13
13. Jim Walker 23:23
14. Rob Bishop 23:57
15. Bryan Slinkard 24:20
16. Geno Gruber 24:20
17. Jeff Smith 24:30
18. Joe Shelburne 24:38
19. Jim Greenlee 24:42
20. Greg Watkins 25:00
21. Eric Saxman 25:19
22. Jeff Seyfried 25:24
23. Kim Agur 25:47 (1st Place Woman!!)
24. Bret DeWitt 25:57
25. Bob Aranguren 26:06
26. Mike Trowbridge 26:14
27. Paul Begbie 26:52
28. Elizabeth Brent 27:17 (2nd Place Woman!!)
29. Jeff Ochs 28:31 (Jeff took almost 7 minutes OFF his time from the March '07 TT!)
30. Barry DeWitt 28:37
31. Jim Mensching 28:55
32. Daniel Henning 28:59
33. Gary Fowler 29:11
34. Kellie Grandstaff 29:25 (3rd Place Woman!!)
35. Sue Kamrar 29:26
36. Christine Roberts 29:38
37. Janine Rood 29:39
38. Gino Zahnd 29:51
39. Tammie Watkins 30:47
40. Grace Twedt 31:08
41. Jenn Gruber 32:12 (Jenn knocked 7:01 off her time from March!)
42. Laurie Gallagher 33:30
43. Skip Lees 38:45
44. Kelly Spitz 42:29
45. Wendy DeWitt 46:02
46. Lauren DeWitt 47:24

And Tony Rocha got some awesome photographs of the Time Trial HERE!

And the Final Results from the September 2007 Nutcracker Omnium:

1. Aren Timmel = 113 points(Now holds the Nutcracker Trophy & the Paskenta Trophy!)
2. Mike Ricks = 105 points
3. Rich Thurman = 101 points
4. Kevin Speacht = 87 points
5. Tim Creswell = 72 points
6. David Kyle = 65 points
7. Geno Gruber = 41 points
8. Jim Greenlee = 40 points
9. Mike Trowbridge = 31 points
10. Paul Begbie = 26 points

I want to thank all of you for taking part in this little event - we'll do the Omnium again next spring!

Upcoming Chico Events:

Unknown Coast Weekend on Sept. 15th & 16th
Henleyville Road Race on Sept. 22nd
The Chico Downtown Criterium on Sept. 23rd
Forest Ranch Time Trial on Sept. 30th
Jack & Jill Team Time Trial on October 7th
Quincy Weekend on October 13th & 14th
Chico State Mountain Bike Races on October 20th & 21st
and the Centerville Halloween Time Trial on October 27th!