Today's Airport Criterium Results...............

Hi Everyone - and Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there!!!!

We had some warm weather this afternoon for today's Airport Long-Course Criterium.......and 18 riders came out to take part in this one - thank you ALL for coming out to take part in this event!!! We even had a couple of special guests come down from Redding to take part - Kareem Speake and his 11-year-old son Sandy!! Thanks for making the trip down for this one, you guys - hope to see you back out there again very very soon!!

I would also like to thank Steve Vickery at the Madison Bear Garden for donating BEAR BUCKS for Prime Prizes for today's Criterium - for every 1 Prime Point that was won, 1 Bear Buck was also given away! And, as you can see from the results below, we gave away quite a few Primes today! Thank you Steve and Madison Bear Garden for donating to the event!! Looks like the Beer and Burgers are gonna be on Jeff Galland!! In short, he put on quite the display of sprinting skill and tenacity out there - great job Jeff - and to everyone who came out for this one!!!

Below are the Category Results from today's event, followed by the Current Overall Standings in the 2009 Chico Airport Criterium Series. REMEMBER also - the standings are always Preliminary for the first 24 hours after posting - so if you see an addition, subtraction, correction, deletion or any other tions, please let me know!:

CATEGORY "A" Results for the May 10th Chico Airport LONG COURSE Criterium:
1. Jeff Galland (7 points + 21 Prime Points!! + 1 = 29 points)
2. Steve Vickery (5 points + 1 = 6 points)
3. Mike Smith (4 points + 3 Prime Poins + 1 = 8 points)
4. James Plummer (3 points + 3 Prime Points + 1 = 7 points)
5. Roy Steves (2 points + 1 = 3 points)
6. Geno Gruber (1 point + 3 Prime Points + 1 = 5 points)
7. Jeff Ochs 1 point
8. Ryan Olson 1 point

CATEGORY "B" Results for the May 10th Chico Airport LONG COURSE Criterium:
1. Shawn Hughes (7 points + 9 Prime Points + 1 = 17 points)
2. Charlie Pelton (5 points + 7 Prime Points + 1 = 13 points)
3. Tom Embree (4 points + 10 Prime Points + 1 = 15 points)
4. David Dura (3 points + 1 = 4 points)
5. Kareem Speake (2 points + 3 Prime Points + 1 = 6 points)
6. Tom Murphy (1 point + 1 = 2 points)
7. Jim Mensching (2 Prime Points + 1 = 3 points)
8. Skip Lees 1 point
9. David Klein (4 Prime Points + 1 = 5 points)
10. Sandy Speake (Age 11!!) (4 Prime Points + 1 = 5 points)

2009 AIRPORT CRITERIUM SERIES CURRENT OVERALL STANDINGS:

Category "A" OVERALL:
1. Jeff Galland 142 points
2. David Albrecht 112 points
3. Mike Trowbridge 71 points
4. Mike Smith 59 points
5. Alex Blease 54 points
6. Michael Jasinski 32 points
7. Kevin Speacht 28 points
8. Roy Steves 27 points
9. Tim Creswell 26 points
10. Mike Cordova 23 points
11. Greg Golet 21 points
12. James Plummer 20 points
13. Margaret Jones 16 points (1st Place Woman in Category "A")
14. Jeff Ochs 12 points
14. Paul Sajben 12 points
16. Aren Timmel 10 points
16. Rob Bishop 10 points
18. Ryan Olson 9 points
18. Kyle Hartelt 9 points
18. Anthony Ferretti 9 points
21. Ethan Black 8 points
21. Paul McIntyre 8 points
23. Steve Vickery 7 points
23. Geno Gruber 7 points
23. Josh Bullock 7 points
23. Dave Berman 7 points
27. Ben Bryant 6 points
27. Mike Painter 6 points
27. Evan Carroll 6 points
30. Weston Crumm 5 points
30. Greg Melton 5 points
32. Jason Ziegenhirt 4 points
32. Jesse Rushing 4 points
32. Charlie Dawson 4 points
35. Randy Moon 3 points
35. Mike Castaldo 3 points
35. Brad Foster 3 points
35. Kenny Price 3 points
39. CJ Humphries 2 points
39. Janeen Thorpe 2 points
39. Michael Dufresne 2 points
42. Jim Clark 1 point
43. Morgan Bonar 1 point
44. Dain Melton 1 point
45. Dan Reymann 1 point
46. Kurt Haskins 1 point
47. Tom Embree 1 point

CATEGORY "B" OVERALL:
1. Shawn Hughes 106 points
2. Matt Itamura 69 points
3. Charlie Pelton 66 points
4. Michael Dufresne 57 points
5. Tom Embree 56 points
6. Frank Marinello 46 points
7. Mike Crumm 45 points
8. David Klein 26 points
9. David Weathers 16 points
9. Joe Schlesinger 16 points
11. Denny McKenney 15 points
12. Dain Melton 14 points
13. Colin Moakley 13 points
14. Scott Heather 11 points
15. Rob Glatthaar 9 points
16. Ray Bransky 8 points
17. Kareem Speake 6 points
18. Sandy Speake 5 points (Age 11!!)
18. Adam Tischler 5 points
18. Samuel Bransky 5 points
18. BJ LaRossa 5 points
18. Jeff Ochs 5 points
23. David Dura 4 points
23. Clay Johnson 4 points
23. Brian Strukan 4 points
26. Tom Murphy 3 points
26. Jim Mensching 3 points
26. James Gilchrist 3 points
26. Jeff Davis 3 points
30. John Wiesinger 2 points
30. Christopher Cook 2 points
30. Mark Hendry 2 points
33. Skip Lees 1 point
34. Ken Petruzzelli 1 point
35. Jon Keyzer 1 point
36. Shawn Fisher 1 point
37. Steve Kodad 1 point
38. John D'Ewart 1 point
39. Johnny Jones 1 point
40. Walt Schafer 1 point
41. Gary Fowler 1 point
42. Greg Melton 1 point
43. Paul Begbie 1 point

WOMEN'S CATEGORY OVERALL:
1. Lisa Martens 33 points
2. Tracy Berman 27 points
3. Margaret Jones 25 points
4. Janine Rood 20 points
5. Jenn Gruber 16 points
6. Morgan Bonar 12 points
7. Christa Ritchey 7 points
8. Caryn Jones 10 points
9. Amy Dawson 1 point
10. Teresa Kludt 1 point
11. Kristen Schonauer 1 point
12. Shirley Huffman 1 point

AIRPORT CRITERIUM SERIES INFORMATION:

After the great turn-out at last year's Tuesday Night Chico Airport Criterium Series, we're going to be doing them again for 2009......but starting up a bit earlier this year. For those curious, the definition of "Criterium" is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criterium

This Series starts up next Tuesday, March 10th and will go through September 15th, 2009......just before our Chico Downtown Criterium on September 20th! Registration normally starts at 5:40pm - with the event starting at 6:00pm.

How does it work???

Okay, here are a few notes for this year's Airport "Crit" Series:

1. We will be using more than 1 course for the Crits this year......including throwing in some lefty-turn Crits to get a feel for those - and some Weekend Criteriums as well. For the time being, we'll be using our standard Tuesday Night righty-turn course starting/finishing at Convair Avenue - http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Chico-Airport-Tuesday-Night-Crit-Course

2. ALL riders must sign in this year - There will be a small table on the sidewalk at the Start/Finish location on Convair Avenue - just sign in at the table and you are good to go! Sign-ins start at 5:40pm - the racing action starts at 6:00pm. We usually end the event by 7pm, at the latest - many times earlier than that - to get home before it gets too dark outside. RAIN AND WET PAVEMENT WILL ALWAYS CANCEL THE CRITERIUMS! In addition, last year we had some tremendous smoke from the Humboldt Fire in this area......which, in turn, would also cancel the Criteriums due to hazardous air quality.

3. The Category "B" races normally go for 45 minutes PLUS 3 laps.........while the Category "A" races go for 50-60 minutes PLUS 3 laps. There can be anywhere from 1 to 15+ Primes in the Airport Criteriums......just depends on the mood of the Dictator.....er......I mean, Director. ;)

4. Helmets are MANDATORY! So, please....please.....wear your helmet! Please!!

5. All are welcome - you don't have to do the Series - just come on out and give this Criterium training/riding a shot! It's amazing what kind of workout you can get in during a 45 to 60 minute practice event.

6. Points are used to calculate the Overall Standings in the Series. The point breakdown is as follows: 7-5-4-3-2-1, with an additional 1 point being given to each participant at each event. So, 7 points goes to the winner, 5 points goes to 2nd place, 4 points goes to 3rd place and so on.........in addition to 1 more point just for doing the event. The rider with the MOST points at the end of the Series wins the Overall Title - and the Chico Airport Series Championship Trophy, plus whatever goodies we can give you. Also, Prime points will be given out during each of the Crits - these are just lap prizes......but in this case, the prizes are points. We will also be having some product Primes out there this year!

7. Last year, we had just two categories during the races - Category A and Category B. However, the Series itself has even more Trophy Categories, including:

Category "A" Men
Women's Category
Women's Masters 40+ Category
Category "B" Men
Men's Masters 40+ Category
Men's Masters 50+ Category

These are the Categories which all qualify for a Series Championship Trophy. If nobody - or very few folks are in one category - we may eliminate it and add an additional category where the numbers allow it. As usual, sandbaggers are strongly discouraged ( A Sandbagger would be a Category "A" rider entering a Category "B" event).

8. Although donations to put on these events are always very appreciated and accepted, this Series is FREE - so come on out and take advantage of some, or all, of these Criteriums in 2009!

9. Finally, remember - these Criterium events are essentially for practice and exercise - we have fun out there and get a great little workout in, and we get to work on some quality cycling skills. But, overall, they're no big whoop....no World Championship/Olympic medals or million dollar contracts on the line. So, with that in mind, just treat 'em as such - a good training event to try some new things, gain some good fitness.....and maybe even get into a "real" sanctioned Criterium at some point in time. Or not. Just have fun with it!! We'll have trophies and hopefully some prizes for the Series winners - and definitely loads of fun....and pain and suffering. ;) But remember - it's all in good fun!

Hope to see you out there!!

Rodney............
Team Chico & R.A.C.E. - Rodney's Awful Cycling Events
Chico, CA
www.ChicoBike.com