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Starla Teddergreen won the Open Women's race at the final Monday Night PIR of the season.

PORTLAND — Monday Night PIR closed out the season with two new winners in the Open Women and Masters Cat 1/2/3 races. River City Bicycles’ Eirik Schulz warmed up for the coming cyclocross season with a winning evening on the race track’s wide tarmac. Schulz notched 16 points, two better than runners-up Dan Quirk (Veloce Racing) and James Karmer (Arizona Masters Racing). The Open Women’s race saw series leader Lisa Reeve back at the front, but newcomer Starla Teddergreen (Vanderkitten) squeaked out the win with 18 points, just one better than Reeve in second. Veloforma’s Tina Brubaker was third with 12 points.

Hammer Velo’s Keith Levesque won the Masters 3/4 race ahead of Team Oregon’s Aaron Aikin and Ironclad’s Shaun Conley. Catherine Cooper (Word-RCB) won the Novice Women’s race, and Rob Fleskes (Harder Cycling) won the Novice Men’s race.

GETTING THE GARMINS
Lisa Reeve (Veloforma) and Christian Tresser (Cyclepath) took home the Garmin Edge 305 units courtesy of Strava.com as winners of the Women’s and Masters 1/2/3 monthly series for August. Monthly winners in all the categories also won green PIR Series Leader jerseys and gift certificates to Laurelwood Brewing.

Sprinting for hot spot points in close quarters.

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RESULTS
Monday Night PIR
August 30

Senior Women
1. Teddergreen, Starla (Vanderkitten) 18.0
2. Reeve, Lisa (Veloforma) 17.0
3. Brubaker, Tina (Veloforma) 12.0
4. Levo, Jenn (Bridgetown Velo) 9.0
5. Kaplan, Jessica (Therapeutic Associates Cycling/GENR8) 7.0
Masters 1/2/3
1. Schulz, Eirik (Specialized River City Bicycles) 15.0
2. Quirk, Daniel (Veloce Racing) 13.0
3. Kramer, James (Arizona Masters Racing) 13.0
4. Heaberlin, Cliff (Guinness Cycling Team) 12.0
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One more week remains in this season's PIR Tuesday Nighter race series.

PORTLAND — Rubicon-Orbea’s prolific winner Roman van Uden notched one last victory in Oregon Tuesday night at PIR before heading home to New Zealand next week. The Portland Twilight Criterium winner racked up 21 points over the evening in a tight battle with Rapha Racing’s John Leonard, who finished just one point behind. Guinness Cycling’s Cliff Heaberlin and Jason Riffle (HPC/Scott’s Cycles) tied with 15.

Hammer Velo’s Lincoln Wettenhall won the Cat 3/4 race in front of Mark Crawford (Ironclad Performance Wear) and Brad Whetstone (Colorado State). Jesse Trigg won the Cat 4/5 race ahead of Matthew Rider (Team Bike Tires Direct) and Michael Scalzo.

John Leonard (Rapha Racing) battled Rubicon-Orbea's Roman van Uden all evening and finished one point short of the New Zealand rider..

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RESULTS
PIR Tuesday Nighter
August 24

Pro/1/2/3
1. Van Uden, Roman (Rubicon-ORBEA) 21
2. Leonard, John (Rapha Racing) 20
3. Heaberlin, Cliff (Guinness Cycling Team) 15
4. Riffle, Jason (HPC/Scott’s Cycles) 15
5. Harwood, Jeff (Ironclad Performance Wear) 13
Cat 3/4
1. Wettenhall, Lincoln (Hammer Velo) 18
2. Crawford, Mark (Ironclad Performance Wear) 13
3. Whetstone, Brad (Colorado state) 12
4. Penner, Daniel (Ironclad Performance Wear) 11
5. Weinstein, Jason
Cat 4/5
1. Trigg, Jesse 15
2. Rider, Matthew (Team Bike Tires Direct) 12
3. Scalzo, Michael 10
4. Webb, Emerson (Beaverton Bicycle Club) 10
5. Russell, Cameron 9
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The OBRA Criterium Championships Sunday in Albany awarded medals to the top three in multiple age- and skill-graded categories.

ALBANY — Cycling invaded these downtown streets for the 3rd Annual Historic Albany Criterium, the second year this wide-open, super-fast, six-corner course has hosted the championships. Moderate summer weather and the popular venue combined for a beautiful day of racing.

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Gentle Lovers' Steven Beardsley takes the win at the OBRA Criterium Championships Sunday in Albany.

ALBANY — Steven Beardsley kept the OBRA criterium champion’s jersey in the Gentle Lovers family for the third straight year Sunday by taking a bunch sprint for the win in front of Stephen Bedford (Word-RCB) and his teammate Pete Groblewski.

In the women’s race, Flywheel Bicycle Solutiuons rider Jade Wilcoxson repeated her 2009 performance and took the win in front of Leia Tyrrell (CAPA Cycling) and Karey Swan (Therapeutic Associates/GENR8) in a bunch sprint.

Southern Oregon's Jade Wilcoxson (Flywheel Bicycle Solutions) won her second consecutive OBRA criterium title Sunday.

Cycling invaded these downtown streets for the 3^rd Annual Historic Albany Criterium, the second year this wide-open, super-fast, six-corner course has hosted the championships. Moderate summer weather and the popular venue combined for a beautiful day of racing.

Aggressive tactics drove full-throttle paces throughout the entire senior men’s and women’s events, with plenty of attacks coming but nothing managing to stick enough of a gap to get dangerous. In the end, both fields charged to the line for gutter-to-gutter sprints.

Wilcoxson, the women’s defending champion, had a fairly short list of who to watch out for in the closing laps. CAPA Cycling’s Leia Tyrrell, fourth at last year’s championships as a Cat 3, has been on a tear this year. The young rider finished second at the collegiate criterium nationals and since July has won the Gresham Criterium, the Vancouver Courthouse Criterium, the OBRA Road Race Championship and the Longview Criterium.

“She was the main one that I was worried about,” Wilcoxson said. “I was sitting third wheel coming through the back stretch before the last corner and saw out of the corner of my eye that she jumped. So I thought I guess I better go now. “

Wilcoxson was first through the last corner and drilled it for the line. It was a winning move that she was able to practice earlier in the race.

“For the first prime that was kind of the same scenario,” Wilcoxson said. “I jumped way early and was able to hold her off.  So that was kind of my practice and it worked for the last lap, too.”

Wilcoxson held off Tyrrell, who took second in front of Karey Swan, Jen Akeroyd and Megan Chinburg (who won the separately scored Cat 3 race).

Defending her criterium champion’s jersey caps a successful season for Wilcoxson, who won the Kings Valley Road Race and the Umpqua Criterium before placing second at the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic stage 5 criterium, winning the High Desert Omnium criterium and the finishing 18^th overall at the NRC Cascade Cycling Classic.

BEARDSLEY KEEPS IT IN THE FAMILY

The men’s race followed a similar pattern to the women’s, with constant attacking, chasing and counter-attacking keeping the field strung out and the racing safe. Word-RCB’s Stephen Bedford and Jake Hansen animated the race early on with repeated attacks. Aaron Olson, a former OBRA rider and pro back racing in Oregon again, also drove the pace with repeated attacks.

When Bedford, Team Oregon’s Chris Swan and Beardsley got a small gap about a third of the way into the race, the field immediately pounced to bring them back. And so it went for the rest of the day. The fast course and good-sized field combined to defeat any attempts to gain an advantage over the field, producing a mad rush from beginning to end.

When the field rolled into the final laps together, Portland’s Gentle Lovers swarmed the front with James Adamson pushing the pace, Pete Groblewski and last year’s winner Sam Nicoletti patrolling the front, and 2008 winner Steven Beardsley waiting patiently behind.

With one lap to go tack specialist Zac Kovalcik (BRIHOP) attacked over the start/finish, taking Beardsley and the rest of the field with him. Kovalcik pulled through the backside of the course until only three of the six corners remained.

“Bedford came in front of me on Zac’s wheel going down that back straightaway,” Beardsley said. “So I attacked on the inside and got into that corner right before Zac did. I had a clear shot coming out of the corner, so I just put my head down and shifted into a big gear.”

Beardsley had plenty of time for his signature heart salute crossing the line, while Bedford, able to grab Beardsley’s wheel but unable to come around it, nailed second. Groblewski crossed the line third, also saluting his team’s winning effort.

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UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
OBRA Criterium Championships
Sunday, Aug. 22

Senior Men
1. Steven Beardsley (Gentle Lovers)
2. Stephen Bedford (Word-RCB)
3. Pete Groblewski (Gentle Lovers)
4. Josh Liberles (Ten Speed Drive)
5. Zac Kovalcik (Brihop)
Senior Women
1. Jade Wilcoxson (Flywheel Bicycle Solutions)
2. Leia Tyrrell (CAPA Cycling)
3. Karey Swan (Therapeutic Associates/GENR8)
4. Jen Akeroyd (Sorella Forte)
5. Tina Brubaker (Veloforma)
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Carl Decker took the win Saturday on the challenging Franz Bakery Criterium course.

PORTLAND — Pro mountain biker Carl Decker (Giant) followed up a win in his first-ever track race at the Alpenrose Velodrome Friday night by taking the men’s Pro/1/2/3 win at the Franz Bakery Criterium Saturday in Portland. Decker went solo early and then joined Rubicon-Orbea’s Ben Chaddock in a two-man breakaway that snagged up enough laps to win the points-race-format event in Portland’s central eastside. Ironclad Performance Wear’s Anna Christiansen left behind the rest of the women’s field, escaping the bunch on the fourth lap and gobbling up the race’s remaining points.

Alex Lightman (Guinness Cycling Team) soloed away to a win in the Cat 3 race. Veloce Racing’s Eric Sheagley won the Masters 35+ race. Troy Sexton was the Cat 4/5 winner.

Ironclad's Anna Christiansen rode the last 90 percent of the race off the front by herself.

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RESULTS
Franz Bakery Criterium
Saturday, Aug. 21

Pro/1/2 Men
1. Decker, Carl (Giant)
2. Chaddock, Ben (Rubicon-ORBEA)
3. Olson, Aaron (Foundation Roots)
4. Groblewski, Pete (Gentle Lovers)
5. Liberles, Joshua (Ten Speed Drive Racing)
Senior Women
1. Christiansen, Anna (Ironclad Performance Wear)
2. Campbell, Amy (River City Bicycles)
3. Walle, Brianna (Ironclad Performance Wear)
4. Teddergreen, Starla (Super Relax Concept)
5. Tisdale, Sarah (Sorella Forte)
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PORTLAND — Rubicon-Orbea brought four riders to the PIR Tuesday Nighter and scored four of the top five spots, with Aaron Tuckerman getting the win and track fastman Dean Tracy in second. Veloce Racing’s Eric Sheagley breached the Rubicon wall and squeezed in ahead of Mike Northey and Roman van Uden for third.

Ironclad Performance Wear’s Robert Carver took the top prize in the cat 3/4 race ahead of Stephen Fitzgerald (Liberty Cycle) and teammate Mark Crawford. Brandon Smith (Team Brain & Spine) was third. In the Cat 4/5 race, Matthew Rider (Team Bike Tires Direct) finished ahead of Jesse Trigg and Jon Kraft.

Aaron Tuckerman and his Rubiocn-Orbea teammates took four of the top five spots Tuesday night at PIR. File Photo / Pat Malach

RESULTS
PIR Tuesday Nighter
August 17

Pro/1/2/3
1. Tuckerman, Aaron (Rubicon-ORBEA) 19
2. Tracy, Dean (Rubicon-ORBEA) 15
3. Sheagley, Eric (Veloce Racing) 13
4. Northey, Mike (Rubicon-ORBEA) 10
5. Van Uden, Roman (Rubicon-ORBEA) 10
Cat 3/4
1. Carver, Robert (Ironclad Performance Wear) 18
2. Fitzgerald, Stephen (Liberty Cycle) 17
3. Crawford, Mark (Ironclad Performance Wear) 17
4. Smith, Brandon (Team Brain & Spine) 10
5. Whetstone, Brad (Colorado State) 7
Cat 4/5
1. Rider, Matthew (Team Bike Tires Direct) 16
2. Trigg, Jesse 12
3. Kraft, Jon 10
4. Russell, Cameron 8
5. Hartnett, John 7

Christian Tresser (Cyclepath) won at PIR Monday night and has a commanding lead in the Masters 1/2/3 monthly series. File Photo.

PORTLAND — PIR perennial Christian Tresser (Cyclepath) and Veloforma’s Lisa Reeve are well on their way to getting Garmin prizes to go along with the leaders’ jerseys awarded to the PIR Monday Night monthly overall series winners. Strava.com donated a Garmin 305 unit and an annual membership to Strava for the overall winners in the Masters 1/2/3 and Open Women’s races.

August features five weeks of racing, and both Reeve and Tresser took the top spots Monday night, adding to their seemingly insurmountable leads with just two races remaining. Reeve leads Lana Atchley (Milani/Albibici) by 37 points and third-placed rider Mindy Simmons (Hammer Velo) by 38. Tresser has racked up a 31 point lead over second-place rider Paul Zagacki (BicycleAttorney) and a 32 point gap over Joe Martin (Veloce Racing).

In other categories, Scott Mares (Verge) Leads Aaron Aikin (Team Oregon/Laurelwood Brewery) by five points in the Masters 4/5 race. The closest races of the August series are taking place in the novice events, with Word-RCB’s Catherine Cooper and unattached rider Sandra Clark sharing the women’s overall lead with 29 points each. Mike Owens and Dustin Harder (Harder Cycling) lead the Novice men’s race series at 31 points.

Veloforma's Lisa Reeve has notched 58 points against PIR Open Women's competition this month. Lana Atchley (Milani/Albibici) is second overall with 21 points. File Photo.

RESULTS
Monday Night PIR
August Overall Standings

Masters Men 1/2/3
1. Christian Tresser, Cyclepath – 51 Points
2. Paul Zagacki, BicycleAttorney – 20 Points
3. Joe Martin, Veloce Racing – 19 Points
4. Joe Holcomb, Specialized River City – 18 Points
5. John Mitchem, Guinness – 16 Points
Senior Women
1. Lisa Reeve, Veloforma – 58 Points
2. Lana Atchley, Milani/Albibici – 21 Points
3. Mindy Simmons, Hammer Velo – 20 Points
4. Lisa Heathman, BicycleAttorney – 15 Points
5. Karey Miles, Therapeutic Associates – 13 Points

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RESULTS
OBRA Hillclimb TT
Sunday, Aug. 15

Senior Men
1. Davis Shepherd (Hutch’s/Landshark) 25:13.00
2. Seth Patla (River City Bicycles) 27:20.00
3. Jake Hansen (Word-RCB) 27:38.00
Senior Women
1. Jenny Slawta (Landshark) 30:55.00
2. Anna Christiansen (Ironclad performance Wear) 31:42.00 *Cat 3 winner
3. Kerry Martin (Sunnyside Sports) 33:28.00 *Masters Women 40-44 winner
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Course Records

Unofficial best course time:
Doug Smith (Wheaties Schwinn), 23:24

Best OBRA Recorded course times:
Men: Billy Truelove and Alex Newport-Berra, 25:11 (tied)
Women: Jenny Slawta, 29:22

Temperatures soared past 100 Sunday at Alpenrose Velodrome for the Heartbreaker track race.

Dan Harm lapped the field and won the points race.

PORTLAND — Temperatures in the 100s baked the concrete bowl in southwest Portland Sunday during the Gentle Lovers’ Alpenrose Heartbreaker track race.

Steven Beardlsey and Camille Hook took home the handmade whale trophies for the overall battles. Beardsley parlayed second-place finishes in the kierin, points race and madison to notch 15 points. Dan Harm, winner of the points race and madison, was second with 14 after getting aced out of the keirin points. Zac Kovalcik, winner of the madison with Harm, was third overall. Hook and Nissy Cobb tied with 10 points in the Senior Women’s overall. Women’s kierin winner Jen Featheringhill was third with seven points.

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OVERALL RESULTS
Alpenrose Heartbreaker
Sunday, August 5

Senior Men
1. Beardsley, Steven (Gentle Lovers) 15.0
2. Harm, Daniel 14.0
3. Kovalcik, Zachary (BRIHOP Cycling) 12.0
4. Mansker, Kevin (River City Bicycles) 7..0
5. Blackwelder, Mark (Gentle Lovers) 5.0
Senior Women
1. Hook, Camille (BRIHOP Cycling) 10.0
2. Cobb, Nissy (Veloforma) 10.0
3. Featheringill, Jen (Bike Central) 7.0
4. VanValkenburg, Heather (Rubicon-ORBEA) 4.0
5. Shepard, Amy (BRIHOP Cycling) 4.0

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Leia Tyrrell (CAPA Cycling) continued her criterium winning streak Saturday in Longview, Wash., with a victory at the Longview Grand Prix women

LONGVIEW, Wash. — CAPA Cycling’s Leia Tyrrell and Rubicon-Orbea’s Ben Chaddock took the wins Saturday at the inaugural Longview Grand Prix presented by Highland Cycling. The clockwise oval half-mile course circled a nicely wooded park smack dab in the civic center roundabout sandwiched between the library, city hall and the stately Monticello Hotel.

Ben Chaddock takes the win in Longview Saturday afternoon after finishing second in Portland the night before.

The day after the full team dominated the Portland Twilight Criterium with Roman van Uden leading a one-two-three-four finish, remnants of the quickly scattering Rubicon-Orbea team fielded three riders and snagged first and third, with Chaddock crossing the line ahead of Hutch’s Corey Domiunguez and Van Uden cleaning up the last podium spot. Rubicon’s Quinn Keogh, fourth at Portland despite a late-race crash, was active early with the day’s longest breakaway but suffered a mechanical in the last few laps and couldn’t regain the pack.

Chaddock, a Canadian track specialist and recent Whitman College graduate, finished second at the Portland race and was in position to set up van Uden entering the final lap in Longview, but this time things played out in his favor. Van Uden had been off the front with another rider when the field pulled them back with less than 10 to go. About that same time Keogh got chopped in a corner but saved himself from a fall. The excess torque on is front wheel caused a mechanical failure, and despite a quick change he was never able to regain the bunch.

“Coming over the line there was a bit of a panic,” Chaddock said. “So I figured the safest place to be was to go to the front of the field and drill it. Then with a lap and half to go, the (Bikesale.com) guys — I’d never seen them the whole race — came up two abreast through the line, and I was like whoa, ‘where did you come from?’ Obviously they’re fresh, and they’re not allowed to be in front of me.”

The Monticello Hotel was the backdrop on the far side of the course.

Chaddock immediately regained control at the front and checked behind to see if Van Uden was on his wheel going into the first sweeping corner of the last lap. Chaddock saw Van Uden on his wheel and got the nod to power it up.

“I didn’t know if Roman wanted to win or not,” he said. “Out of the corner I went wide and wasn’t able to get back in, so on the back straight I wasn’t in a position to provide my draft for Roman, so he stuck it tight and gave me the good to go. I just gave it full everything I had into turn three, probably an eight-second effort, which is perfect for me. I didn’t look back after that. It was a good win.”

TYRRELL SPRINTS TO ANOTHER WIN

In the women’s Cat 1/2/3 race, a three-rider breakaway with Tyrrell, Karey Swan (Therapeutic Associates/GENR8) and Lisa Reeve (Veloforma) escaped the field in the opening laps and quickly set to adding on time to their gap. Taking equal; turns on the front, the smooth trio lapped the field just over halfway through the race and wasted little time pushing off the front to give it another go, falling just short by the end.

Tyrrell used the finishing kick that earned a silver in the Collgiate National Criterium Championships to jump away from her break companions and hold on for the win. Reeve finished second, just holding off Swan. Bridgetown Velo’s Jenn Levo won the field sprint for fourth.

IRON MAN

United Finance rider Steven Holland was the iron man of the especially warm day, racing three times. Holland won the Masters 50+ race, finished third in the Masters 35+ 1/2/3 event, and was just out of the money in the Pro/1/2/3 race with a seventh-place finish.

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RESULTS (partial)
Longview Grand Prix
Saturday, Aug. 14

Pro/1/2/3 Men
1. Ben Chaddock (Rubicon-Orbea)
2. Cory Dominguez (Hutch’s)
3. Roman van Uden (Rubicon-Orbea)
4. Todd Gallaher (IJM.org)
5. Scott Laliberte (Cannondale)
Cat 1/2/3 Women
1. Liea Tyrrell (CAPA Cycling)
2. Lisa Reeve (Veloforma)
3. Karey Swan (Therapeutic Associates/GENR8)
4. Jenn Levo (Bridgetown Velo)
5. Pam Massey (Bikesale.com)
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