Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Time Trial Results: Sept. 21, 2011

Name/Finish time/(Lap times)/[Difference from previous]

Five laps
Eric Smith: 23:46† (4:38 | 4:43 | 4:49 | 4:47 | 4:49) [-0:10]
Ben Senkerik: 26:58 (5:56 | 5:23 | 5:18 | 5:09 | 5:12) [+0:27]
Kyle Greene: 27:02 (5:27 | 5:19 | 5:31 | 5:18 | 5:27) [-0:50]
Andy Fehrenbach: 27:41† (5:30 | 5:27 | 5:33 | 5:35 | 5:36) [-0:24]
Paul Meuer: 27:51† (5:32 | 5:34 | 5:33 | 5:35 | 5:37) [-0:29]
Ben Jones: 29:02† (6:00 | 5:43 | 5:46 | 5:51 | 5:42) [-1:58]
Jeremy Brouwer: 29:28† (5:45 | 5:45 | 5:37 | 5:58 | 6:03) [-4:46]
Renee DeBruin: 29:42† (5:51 | 5:39 | 5:58 | 5:54 | 6:00) [-0:39]
Rosette Reynolds: 33:47† (6:49 | 6:40 | 6:43 | 6:46 | 6:49) [-1:24 off previous 4-lap time]

Four laps
Alex Tande: 25:34† (6:19 | 6:13 | 6:35 | 6:27) [-0:45]
Jay Pettengill: 29:56† (7:50 | 7:36 | 7:30 | 7:00) [-0:53]

†Personal best

Time Trial Results: Sept. 14, 2011

Name/Finish time/(Lap times)/[Difference from previous]

Five laps
Eric Smith: 23:56 (4:44 | 4:45 | 4:49 | 4:50 | 4:48) [-0:39]
Ben Senkerik: 26:31 (5:27 | 5:16 | 5:17 | 5:16 | 5:15) [+0:08]
Kyle Greene: 27:52 (5:33 | 5:54 | 5:34 | 5:28 | 5:23) [+0:57]
Paul Meuer: 28:20 (5:44 | 5:39 | 5:42 | 5:42 | 5:33) [-0:41]
Renee DeBruin: 30:21 (6:15 | 6:14 | 5:59 | 5:58 | 5:55) [+0:56 over 4-lap time]
Ben Jones: 31:00 (6:20 | 5:55 | 6:06 | 6:37 | 6:02) [+1:40]
Jeremy Brouwer: 34:14 (6:31 | 6:41 | 6:54 | 7:00 | 7:08) [+3:12]

Four laps
Alex Tande: 26:19 (6:27 | 6:37 | 6:42 | 6:33) [NA]
Jay Pettengill: 30:49 (7:26 | 7:50 | 7:57 | 7:36) [-1:15]

Time Trial Results: Sept. 8, 2011

Name/Finish time/(Lap times)/[Difference from previous]

Five laps
Eric Smith: 24:35 (4:47 | 4:52 | 4:57 | 5:00 | 4:49) [-1:15]
Kyle Greene: 26:55† (5:18 | 5:21 | 5:30 | 5:26 | 5:20) [-1:02]
Andy Fehrenbach: 28:05 (5:29 | 5:34 | 5:39 | 5:42 | 5:41) [-0:55]
Paul Meuer: 29:01 (5:49 | 5:46 | 5:52 | 5:48 | 5:46) [-3:18]
Ben Jones: 29:20 (6:17 | 6:06 | 5:11 | 5:42 | 6:04) [-2:21]
Jeremy Brouwer: 31:02 (6:06 | 6:18 | 6:16 | 6:08 | 6:14) [-1:16]

Four laps
Renee DeBruin: 23:30 (5:43 | 5:55 | 6:01 | 5:52) [-1:03]
Rosette Reynolds: 28:22 (7:07 | 7:02 | 6:59 | 7:14) [-1:02]
Jay Pettengill: 31:49 (7:37 | 8:00 | 8:06 | 8:06) [-0:15]

†Personal best

Monday, September 5, 2011

Time Trial Results: Sept. 1, 2011

Name/Finish time/(Lap times)/[Difference from previous]

Five laps
Ben Senkerik: 26:23† (5:26 | 5:14 | 5:15 | 5:14 | 5:14) [-0:34]
Kyle Greene: 27:57 (5:26 | 5:34 | 5:37 | 5:44 | 5:36) [-1:02]
Andy Fehrenbach: 29:00 ( 5:39 | 5:43 | 5:48 | 5:57 | 5:53) [-0:37]
Ben Jones: 31:41 (6:03 | 6:13 | 6:24 | 6:20 | 6:41) [-0:11]
Paul Meuer: 32:19 (5:57 | 7:01* | 6:41 | 6:14 | 6:26) [+1:41]

Four laps
Renee DeBruin: 24:33 (5:58 | 6:06 | 6:22 | 6:07) [-2:33]
Rosette Reynolds: 29:24 (6:34 | 8:21 | 7:02 | 6:57) [NA]
Jay Pettengill: 32:04 (7:49 | 8:38 | 8:18 | 7:19) [-1:10]

*Paul had a mechanical issue that he stopped to attend. The issue was not completely rectified and his overall time difference from the previous week shows this.

Eric, Jeremy and Alex did not participate as their bikes were at the shop.

†Personal best

Time Trial Results: Aug. 25, 2011

This year, we've been able to incorporate the new Ceresco Prairie Mountain Bike Trail into our weekly time trials. Using the outermost loop in a clockwise direction, we get about a 1-mile lap that is entirely singletrack and includes a switchback climb, a few rocky obstacles and a couple of fast and tricky descents.

A GPS track of the loop is available on Garmin Connect.

So here are the results from week one:

Five laps
Eric Smith: 25:50 (5:08 | 5:11 | 5:15 | 5:07 | 5:09)
Ben Senkerik: 26:57 (5:27 | 5:21 | 5:16 | 5:22 | 5:31)
Kyle Greene: 28:59 (5:30 | 6:03 | 5:50 | 5:50 | 5:46)
Andy Fehrenbach: 29:37 (5:56 | 5:51 | 5:56 | 5:59 | 5:55)
Paul Meuer: 30:38 (6:20 | 6:08 | 6:06 | 5:59 | 6:05)
Ben Jones: 31:52 (6:29 | 6:22 | 6:20 | 6:17 | 6:24)
Jeremy Brouwer: 32:18 (6:15 | 6:23 | 6:24 | 6:40 | 6:36)

Four laps
Renee DeBruin: 26:46 (6:41 | 6:46 | 6:25 | 6:54)
Jay Pettengill: 33:14 (7:50 | 8:12 | 8:33 | 8:39)

Two laps*
Alex Tande: 14:02 (6:48 | 7:14)
Rosette Reynolds: 14:26 (7:11 | 7:16)

* Rosette crashed on her third lap and Alex stopped to assist her.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Grand Trail Opening Celebration

As we prepare to celebrate the Grand Opening of the Ripon College Ceresco Prairie Conservancy Mountain Bike Trail this Saturday.

We'd like to take a moment to recognize all the volunteers who helped in this project. If you feel your name is missing from the list below, please contact Ric Damm at dammr@ripon.edu


Kate Amell

Jeremy Brouwer

Kevin Carli

Kyle Crombie

Renee DeBruin

Andy Fehrenbach

Cody Gunst

Geralyn Haggerty

Bjorn Hauge

Chris Hinshaw

Spencer Hoffman

Mike Holland

Adrian Icenogle

Rich Janssen

Ben Jones

David Joyce

Mitch Katt

Rich Ketter

Bruce King

Zach Kouba

Karen Kriz

Brady Kuphal

Jerry Kurek

Mary Manering

Jessica Martzhal

Paul Meuer

Chris Moen

Brandon Mumm

Pam Mumm

Jim Parman

Amy Pinkston

Cody Pinkston

Michael Rausch

Mark Reynolds

Rosette Reynolds

Amber Rico

Mark Sabel

Nick Sabel

Cameron Schave

Allison Schmidt

Tiffany Seering

Casey Simonson

Zach Smith

Fabrizzio Subia

Alex Tande

Dennis Tande

Corey Vande Brink

Jenny Van Mersbergen

Olivia Verma

Elizabeth Wegner

Kathleen Wendel

Austin Wild

Dale Wszalek

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Cool trail story

I was walking the new Ripon College mountain bike trail Monday night with my parents — giving them the grand tour of where I've spent a good share of my time during the past few months. As we're walking, there is a man riding the trail on a vintage cro moly 1980s Trek 820 Antelope with a rigid fork. He's wearing classic black riding shorts and a Green Bay Packers sweatshirt. He passes us several times before I stop him to ask what he thinks of the trail.

He loves it. He's a local guy who said he used to mountain bike quite a bit in the Chequamegon area back in the day. He said now that he's older, he's been riding the flat rail trails on a hybrid; but figured he'd dig out the old bike and give the new singletrack a try. The wide smile on his face said it all.

Seems each time I'm out on the trail, I have a similar encounter. That night we also saw a whole family — from grandparents to grandkids and their dog — taking a leisurely hike. From trail runners to previously unknown local mountain bikers who have come "in to" the woods to ride; the trail has certainly become a valued resource very quickly.

So, "thank you" to Pepsi for their Refresh Everything program; "thank you" to each and every person who voted for this project throughout the month of August 2010; "thank you" to the folks who came out and put a little sweat equity into the trail; "thank you" to the College faculty and administration who gave the blessing to pursue this venture; "thank you" to IMBA for devising the Trail Solutions program and to Jill Van Winkle and Stephen Mullins for listening to our input and helping turn our dreams into reality. It's all paying off in ways I didn't imagine it would.

Coach Ric Damm

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