May 30, 2005
CSC Invitational
We did have a little fun this weekend: the CSC Invitational in Clarendon. Because the race is a criterium (a short course, in this case a kilometer, where the riders go around many laps), we could walk around and see the whole course. We actually arrived toward the end of the women's race, missing the two men's amateur races, but catching all of the Pro.
You are nice and close to the action. (A few years ago, when it was the U.S. Postal Clarendon Cup, Victor and I worked as marshals, and our main responsibility was keeping people from crossing the street just as the peloton came around the corner. Now that the race is more popular, fewer clueless locals were trying to become the action.)
I know exactly how to take this picture with an SLR, but I'm not very good with my digital camera. The idea: open the shutter for 1/30 of a second to show how fast these guys are moving, but I couldn't close the aperture any smaller than f/8, so the picture was very overexposed. I Photoshopped it a bit (I'm not skilled with that either), but you sort of get the idea...they were a blur.
Here is Tyler Farrar, in the red, white, and blue jersey of the U23 National Criterium and Time Trial Champion, with more of the Health Net team.
Late in the race, a lead group of four: Kirk O'Bee from Navigators Insurance, Health Net's Ivan Dominguez, Ivan Stevic from Aerospace Engineering-VMG, and CSC's Bobby Julich, the fan favorite.
Same four, different order.
And in the end (which we didn't quite get to see, being on the wrong part of the course, plus there were bleachers in the way), it was Dominguez, O'Bee, Stevic, Jullich.
(Victor has better pictures and more detail, but I just typed this all up and I'm not going to waste the post...)
Posted by Nic at May 30, 2005 08:11 PM