Trebon, Gould win Wissahickon

By VeloNews.com
Published Oct. 19, 2009

Results

Kona’s Ryan Trebon and Barry Wicks went one-two at Sunday’s cold and windy Wissahickon Cross in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, while Luna’s Georgia Gould won by a large margin.

The women started off the UCI double-header, and despite the storm that turned the previous day’s Granogue course into a quagmire, the circuit at Wissahickon remained solid, though somewhat cooler than normal.

“This course is always exactly the same,” said Mo Bruno-Roy (M&M Racing-Seven Cycles). “It’s always flat and windy. With the rain this weekend, it made it slightly boggier, but not much. Fortunately, the rains stopped this morning.”

Rebecca Wellons (Team Plan C) took the early lead, but it wasn’t long before Georgia Gould (Luna) asserted herself — and then fell down after a pair of off-camber, 180-degree corners.

“I got through the technical portion and thought, ‘That wasn’t so bad,’ because I hadn’t pre-ridden that section,” she said. “Then I just fell down and I was like, ‘Oh, that was a real professional move!’”

Despite the fall, Gould was untouchable for the second consecutive day. Behind her, Bruno-Roy was alone in second pursued by a chase group consisting of Amanda Carey (Kenda-Trainwitheric.com), Laura Van Gilder and Dee Dee Winfield (C3-Athletes Serving Athletes), and Andrea Smith (Minuteman Road Club).

Carey was dropped as Smith bridged-up to Bruno-Roy and the two began a battle royal. Smith — who has been racing ’cross only since last year — tried time and again to dive under Bruno-Roy only to have the more experienced racer take away her line.

Bruno-Roy countered every acceleration Smith made until the Minuteman rider finally slipped past heading into the show jumping ring with slightly less than three laps to go.

But Smith couldn’t ride Bruno-Roy off her wheel., and so the battle came down to the long, paved uphill sprint, about a minute after Gould crossed the line with a victory salute. Smith led it out, accelerated late and sealed her best cyclocross performance to date with a second-place finish.

In the men’s race, a crash at the start delayed a few riders while Dan Timmerman (Richard Sachs-RGM Watches-Radix) took the hole shot ahead of Ryan Dewald (Battley Harley Davidson) and Valentin Scherz (Pro Cycles Scott Newwork).

Asked after the race why they were getting beat off the line this weekend, Wicks and Trebon answered in unison, “Hole shots are overrated.”

Scherz led for a while, as did Wicks, but halfway through the second lap Trebon was off the front with Wicks second. Timmerman closed the gap to Wicks and made a race of it.

“I attacked Barry a couple of times, but that plan backfired because then Barry attacked me,” said Timmerman. He kept it close through the rest of the race, but Wicks never made a mistake large enough for Timmerman to get back in contact.

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Results

Men

1. Ryan Trebon, Kona, 56:32
2. Barry Wicks, Kona, 57:14
3. Dan Timmerman, Richard Sachs-RGM Watches-Radix, 57:24
4. Davide Frattini, Team Fuji, 58:09
5. Valentin Scherz, Pro Cycles-Scott-Newwork, 59:24
6. Josh Dillon, Richard Sachs-RGM Watches-Radix, 59:29
7. Adam Myerson, Cycle-Smart, 59:58
8. Weston Schempf, C3 Athletes Serving Atheletes, 1:00:00
9. William Dugan, Richard Sachs-RGM Watches-Radix, 1:00:20
10. Tyler Wren, Boo Bicycles, 1:00:33
11. Adam Mcgrath, Thule-Van Dessel, 1:01:00
12. Ryan Dewald, Battley Harley-Davidson, 1:01:12
13. Bryan Fawley, Hudz-Subaru, 1:01:50
14. Stephan Kincaid, Champion System-Cannondale, 1:02:00
15. Jared Nieters, Haymarket Bicycles-Homevisit, 1:02:40
16. Greg Wittwer, Alan North America Cycling Team, 1:02:57
17. Patrick Bradley, Rutgers University Cycling Team, 1:03:10
18. Kirt Fitzpatrick, Sexual Camel, 1:03:25
19. Matt Spohn, Dynaflo Racing, 1:04:46
20. Christopher Consorto, Secret Henry’s Team, -1 lap
21. Bill Elliston, Van Dessel Factory Team, -1 lap
22. Michael Jenks, Highland Park Hermes P/b Kim’s Bike Shop, -1 lap
23. Eric Muehl, Industry Nine, -1 lap
24. Pavel Gonda, Crca / Pacifico Team, -1 lap
25. Michael Mihalik, Freddie Fu Cycling Team, -1 lap
26. Dan Langlois, Embrocation Cycling Journal, -1 lap
27. Andrew Wulfkuhle, C3-Athletes Serving Athletes, -1 lap
28. Michael Yozell, Visitpa.com, -1 lap
29. Rickey Visinski, Echappe Equipment Elite Team, -1 lap
30. J Gabriel Lloyd, Echappe Equipment Elite Team, -1 lap
31. Andrew Crooks, Nyc Velo, -1 lap
32. Adam Farabaugh, Hershey Cancer Institute-Gpoa Cannondale, -1 lap
33. Lisban Quintero, CRCA-Foundation, -1 lap
34. Aaron Snyder, Scott Bicycles USA, -1 lap

Women

1. Georgia Gould, Luna Pro Team, 41:24
2. Andrea Smith, Minuteman Road Club, 42:08
3. Maureen Bruno Roy, M&M Racing, 42:08
4. Laura Van Gilder, C3-Athletes Serving Athletes, 42:38
5. Deidre Winfield, C3-Athletes Serving Athletes, 42:42
6. Amanda Carey, Kenda-Trainwitheric.com, 43:34
7. Barbara Howe, Vanderkitten, 44:13
8. Arley Kemmerer, Hub Racing, 44:31
9. Erica Yozell Miller, Visitpa.com, 44:40
10. Nikki Thiemann, Human Zoom-Pabst Blue Ribbon, 44:51
11. Rebecca Wellons, Team Plan C, 45:16
12. Kristin Gavin, Human Zoom-Pabst Blue Ribbon, 46:12
13. Jennifer Maxwell, Atac Sportswear p/b The Bike Rack DC, 47:02
14. Sally Annis, Hub Racing, 47:21
15. Kristine Church, Human Zoom Cycling, 47:45
16. Lauri Webber, Secret Henry’s Team, 48:58
17. Julie Kuliecza, Alan North America Cycling, 49:08
18. Amy Breyla, C3-Athletes Serving Athletes, 49:17
19. Lenore Pipes, unattached, 50:41
20. Diane Grim, C3-Athletes Serving Athletes, -1 lap
21. Jill Waggett, Guy’s Racing Club, -1 lap
22. Andrea Luebbe, Human Zoom-Pabst Blue Ribbon, -1 lap
23. Lisa Most, Wissahickon-Engin Cycles, -1 lap
24. Tara Parsons, CRCA, -1 lap

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