Working with the new coach & loving it...
I am in my 2nd week of working with Kenny Williams as my coach. I am totally loving it! I am doing all kinds of good, fun things. Weights, Yoga, Roller Skating, Fixed Gear riding, Road riding and Roller work. He said in 8 weeks I'll start seeing some changes/results from the weight workouts. I hope so! We went to my gym on Saturday so he could see what machines I had available and what exercises to do and how to do them. The 'sore muscle' feeling felt sooooo good. I love that feeling! I can't ever get enough of it! LOL! I think I scared him and challenged him with my balance issues. One thing I'm going to struggle with is keeping my shoulders down and back flat. Oh well! I got to keep on trying and I can only keep on improving from here on out! I am excited to see where I'll be next year and what progress I'll have made. How fast will I be? How strong will I be? What goals will I achieve? I know it will be a long road which I may not succeed all of them this year and it may take a couple years. I'd be happy with this years' results with just losing some weight, being stronger, faster, working in my zones better and having tons of fun!
I am having fun so far and hope to join some weekend women and team rides while staying in my assigned zones. I've been doing fun things like hanging with friends, going to social get togethers and other things as well. I have quite a few planned in October which will be fun. It is good to have these different activities so I don't feel so burnt out. Now we are thinking about possibly going up to Burnaby the weekend of November 11th to see how it feels to be on that track. Should be fun! I can't wait!! :) WOOHOO!! Another possibility might be in January. I'm all for some new adventures and just enjoying life. I can't wait. This winter will be a great building block to reaching my goals for next year. If I can keep up the enthusiasm and keep away from the boredom and burnt out city.... I'm going to do just fine and have lots of fun! Kenny said it's his job to help me with that. So far he's doing great. He's focused, encouraging, disciplined but yet chill about not pushing anything too hard right now as it's too early in the season. I'm gonna enjoy working with him!
Elite Nationals - Yeah REED!
Here's the article that was found on the usacycling.org website. Here's the results regarding Reed. Also, if you notice, there are results for Tim Luther who is the sprinter that Jane and I got the privilege to ride on Alpenrose together.
Reed, Hammer complete sweep at nationals
Carson, Calif. (October 8, 2006)—The 2006 USA Cycling Elite Track National Championships concluded Saturday after Jennie Reed (Kirkland, Wash./Spike) and Sarah Hammer (Temecula, Calif./Ouch) added more stars-and-stripes jerseys to their closets. Reed claimed two more national titles to sweep the women’s sprint events with four victories and Hammer won the women’s 15-kilometer scratch race to score a hat trick in the endurance events.
After successfully defending her sprint and 500-meter time trial victories earlier in the week, Reed won the keirin and teamed up with Liz Carlson (Jim Thorpe, Pa./East Coast Velo) to win the women’s team sprint Saturday.
Hammer, already the individual pursuit champion and points race winner, claimed the scratch race after pulling back a late race breakaway and holding off Becky Quinn (Quakertown, Pa./Spike) for the win.
Together, Hammer and Reed were the most dominant competitors in the four-day event as one or the other stood on the top step of all six individual event podiums.
In the keirin, Reed easily sailed into the finals with wins in each of her two preliminary rounds. There she squared off against Michelle Bono (Kailua-Kona, Hawaii/Eddie B. Cycling), Kacey Manderfield (Davisburg, Mich./Wolverine-Lees McRae), Anna Lang (La Jolla, Calif./Big City Velo), Catherine Fiedler (Long Beach, Calif./The Home Depot Center) and Cari Higgins (Boulder, Colo./Hammer Racing). In the six-woman mass-start event, Reed held the front position when the pace bike peeled off the track and kept everyone at bay to hang on for her third individual title of the week.
Earlier in the evening, Reed and Carlson paired up to post a 36.19-second mark in their qualifying round to earn the top seed in the women's team sprint. In the gold-medal final, Reed and Carlson beat the second-seeded squad comprised of Martha Dunne (Coronado, Calif./Jelly Belly) and Lang for the national title.
In the bronze-medal ride, Hammer and Shelby Allen (Cerittos, Calif./Major Motion) beat Higgins and Katie Compton (Colorado Springs, Colo./Spike). Not necessarily known for her sprinting ability, Hammer’s team sprint medal was her fourth of the week.
In the women’s 15-kilometer scratch race, Hammer and Quinn entered as the favorites, but when a late-race breakaway of Miranda Duff (Beaverton, Ore./CPT-Colnago), Kimberly Geist (Emmaus, Pa./Victory Brewing), Christen King (Huntington Beach, Calif./Young’s Training Group) and Kori Seehafer (Louisville, Colo./Team Lipton) escaped, it looked as though an underdog would score the upset. Ultimately though, the foursome didn’t have enough horsepower to fend off the Hammer-led chase from behind. The break was caught with two laps of the 40-lap race remaining and Hammer continued to lead out the sprint with Quinn on her wheel. The reigning individual pursuit world champion showed why she’s one of the top endurance riders in the world, keeping the pace high enough at the front to prevent anyone from sprinting around her at the line.
In the men’s team sprint event, Giddeon Massie (Colorado Springs, Colo./Spike) claimed his second national title of the week with the help of Michael Blatchford (Cypress, Calif./Spike) and Kevin Selker (Colorado Springs, Colo./Spike). The top-seeded trio bested the second-seeded threesome of Ben Barczewski (Breiginsville, Pa./Spike), Adam Duvendeck (Santa Barbara, Calif./Echelon Santa Barbara), and Andy Lakatosh (Trexlertown, Pa./Spike).
In the bronze medal match, Eduardo Cocina (Miami, Fla.), Ryan Nelman (Taylor Lake Village, Texas/CKR Racing) and Mike Friedman (Pittsburgh, Pa./TIAA-CREF) won to take third place ahead of Tim Luther (Vancouver, Wash./Northwest All Stars), Stephen McLaughry (Washougal, Wash./Bike Central), and Zachary Copeland (Vancouver, Wash./Northwest All Stars).
In the final team event of the competition, TIAA-CREF added a second team victory to its list with a win in the men’s madison. Friedman and Brad Huff (Fair Grove, Mo.) joined forces to score 22 points and win the gold medal over a second TIAA-CREF team of Chad Hartley (Boulder, Colo.) and Rahsaan Bahati (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Huff and Friedman joined with Will Frischkorn (Boulder, Colo.) and Michael Creed (Colorado Springs, Colo.) to give TIAA-CREF a win in the team pursuit Friday.
2006 USA Cycling Elite Track National Championships
Carson, Calif.
Oct. 5-8
Day Four Results
Women’s Keirin
1. Jennie Reed (Kirkland, Wash.)
2. Anna Lang (La Jolla, Calif.)
3. Michelle Bono (Kailua-Kona, Hawaii)
4. Catherine Fiedler (Long Beach, Calif.)
5. Kacey Manderfield (Davisburg, Mich.)
Women’s Scratch Race
1. Sarah Hammer (Temecula, Calif.)
2. Becky Quinn (Quakertown, Pa.)
3. Theresa Clif-Ryan (Cedar Springs, Mich.)
4. Catherine Fiedler (Long Beach, Calif.)
5. Anna Webb (San Diego, Calif.)
Men’s Team Sprint
1. Giddeon Massie, Michael Blatchford, Kevin Selker
2. Ben Barczewski, Adam Duvendeck, Andy Lakatosh
3. Eduardo Cocina, Ryan Nelman, Mike Friedman
4. Tim Luther, Stephen McLaughry, Zachary Copeland
Women’s Team Sprint
1. Jennie Reed, Liz Carlson
2. Martha Dunne, Anna Lang
3. Sarah Hammer, Shelby Allen
4. Cari Higgins, Katie Compton
Madison
1. Brad Huff, Mike Friedman
2. Rahsaan Bahati, Chad Hartley
3. Dan Vogt, Austin Carroll
4. Kevin Suhr, Ryan Luttrell
5. Scott Zwizanski, Cody O’Reilly
