Travis Jass wins Category 4 State Time Trial Championship!!

Heath Briggs 1st place in 35-39 age group & 4th overall at
Twin Lakes Triathlon!!

6 top 10 placings at the Clear Lake Blues, BBQ & Bike Race

State Criterium Championship Race

June 26, 2010.  Cedar Rapids.  14.48 miles (for 25 laps) / 25.8 avg. speed.  Fort Dodge Trisport member Travis Jass wins race  and is now the 2010 Iowa state criterium champion for category 4 racers.  FD Trisport member Ben Acree finishes in 8th place.  Click on the cycling tab to the left for more pictures and Travis' race report.

Rose Festival Road Race

(for race report, click on the cycling tab to the left)

Rose Festival Road Race Results
Sunday, June 20, 2010

Men's 4
1 Tony Muse, Rasmussen
2 Gavin Huseboe, Colorbiotics
3 Jason Berends, Team Aew Pl
4 Rick Noyes, Rasmussen
5 Jeff Osborn, Rasmussen
6 William Rekemeyer, DMOS
7 Jon Edgington, Colorbiotics
8 Jake Kuperman, University of Iowa
9 Travis Jass, Fort Dodge Trisport
10 Brian Soppe, HBA
11 Dustin Mans, Unattached
12 Jeff Long-McGie, Silver Cycling
13 Ryan Pesch, Colorbiotics
14 Dan Davis, DMOS
15 Bruce Timmerman, Chain Reaction/Free Flight

Green Days Criterium, Johnston Iowa

Hy-Vee Triathlon

Melon City Criterium

Travis Jass finished 21st & Eric Knox finished 43rd (out of 64).  For full results, click here.

Snake Alley Criterium

State Fair Criterium

There was a kids race today at the state fairgrounds.  The FD Trisport junior contingent made a strong showing and had a good time.  The course for them was a straight shot and pretty much a drag race uphill.  Each got a
ribbon for their efforts.



Ashton on his way to his first win.

The next generation

Travis Jass Takes 3rd in large field at Twin Bing Road Race

We were greeted in the aptly named Climbing Hill, Iowa with beautiful sunshine and upper 60 temps but a pretty strong breeze that played a large factor throughout.  The day is broken down into an "A" race and a "B" race, A's being Category 1,2, & 3's, and B's being 3, 4, and 5's.  I am not certain how the 3's get to choose which race.  70 riders lined up in the B race that took off at 11:15 for two laps, 45 miles, on the very rolling course.  We were blown out of town by strong tailwind, and as long as we had the tailwind, the pace was very high and the field stayed together.  One rider flatted in coming out of a downhill turn and in the following straight two riders got into one another and went down on the inside of the lane.  Never a good sound, carbon and skin hitting the pavement at 25+ mph.  The headwind hit us at the same time the constantly rolling ground did.  At that point everyone kinda got settled in.  I finished the first lap kinda hanging out in the back, trying to do as little as possible to stay with the main group, as riders now and again would pop out behind.  The field started narrowing a bit more down to 25-30 riders by the time we got through the very fast downhill/tailwinds section starting the second/final lap.  I found myself caught behind a bobber threatening to take me out of the back with him, so I got a bit lucky and timed a little acceleration into a crosswind that got me safely into the middle of the back, only to see that 4 riders were maybe 15 seconds up the road.  I didn't think much of it we still had 15 or so miles to go and there were more of us than them.  The "more of us" slowly fell apart to a couple different groups that were whittled down to only a handful of riders.  I made the "front" group of riders where a Rassy guy was really taking control.  He kept everyone working and staying together.  One rider fell back out of the lead 4 and was with our group for a short while until he wouldn't work on the front so after some yelling from the Rassy guy, he made his way into the second chase group.  A couple more miles go by and another rider dropped from the leaders, leaving them down to two.  When our group caught him he was pretty much blown up but relayed to us the leaders were tiring.  For the final crosswind stretch south towards town we just kinda put our heads down and worked very hard and well together as 4 riders with one more suffering alot just to suck our wheels.  As we were nearing the end of the stretch one of the two leaders was coming back to us.  The Rassy guy instructed us to hit the gas when we came upon him so he couldn't get on with us.  We did just that and onto the finishing road we went with a tailwind for help.  The finish was about 2 or so miles outside of town on top of a hill.  We drilled the pace to the bottom of the first little hill where I kinda got stuck on the front about halfway up.  The road flattens out a bit before the final hill, so I just kinda recovered a bit knowing no one would take over pulling.  At the bottom of the hill, I put everything I had left into the climb, about halfway up a DMOS rider went out around me and when he had about half a bike legnth on me, I heard a groan from behind.  I just kept as steady as I could knowing I had no chance of catching the DMOS guy but tried to keep my own position.  The road was marked at 200m to go, I looked down to see if there was a wheel behind me and to my surprise there wasn't.  I sat up and looked back to see the Rassy guy had dropped back quite a bit.  Very pleased with 3rd.  As we cooled down we all thanked the Rassy guy for being our drill sargent and biggest cheerleader all in one, without his direction and encouragement, I personally don't think the chase would have succeded.  Turns out, when there were just the two leaders, they crossed wheels and the eventual winner hit the deck, had to get his chain back on, and cross the road to get his sunglasses.  He chased and passed the other leader and solo'd the rest of the way.  All in all, a great day of racing and I gained some good experiance in a successful chase group.  Full results are here although I am not sure how accurate they are after the first 15 or so places: http://www.siouxcityvelo.com/?q=node/1702

TBCRR Results- 'B' Race

'B' Race (Cats 3,4,5) 44 miles

FINAL RESULTS
Name, Team
1. Brian West, CIC/Colorbiotics
2. Nathan Hicks, DMOS/RDMB
3. Travis Jass, Ft. Dodge Trisport
4. Brad Bach, Rassmussen Cycling
5. Peter Oien, Central Plains Cycling
6. Chris Hansen, Joyride
7. Vance Fletcher, DMOS/RDMB
8. Brady Murphy, Midwest Cycling
9. John Spray, Elkhorn Valley Cycling
10. Peter Duryea, Velo Veloce
11. Derek Wilson, Team Kaos/Alegent Health
12. William Coulson, Central Plains Cycling
13. Scott Noel, Joyride
14. Dan Ertz, Elkhorn Valley Cycling
15. Matt O'Donnell, Velo Veloce
16. Jeff Kalo, Central Plains Cycling
17. Troy Erlandson, Central Plains Cycling
18. Steve O'Brien, Central Plains Cycling
19. Rich Anderson, Team Type 1
20. Kenny Pike, Central Plains Cycling
21. Kyle McClellan, Team Kaos/Alegent Health
22. Tom Thorne, Central Plains Cycling
23. Rick Sander, Midwest Cycling
24. Brian Waterfall, Midwest Cycling
25. Brent Linn, Powerade/Independent Fabrication
26. Eric Brunt, Skull Crusher
27. Greg Gleason, Central Plains Cycling
28. Jon Edgington, CIC/Colorbiotics
29. Andrew Keffer, Velo Veloce
30. Justin Manning, Central Plains Cycling
31. Sam Oakes, Elkhorn Valley Cycling
32. Rusty Reno, Velo Veloce
33. Bob Greigg, Powerade/Independent Fabrication
34. Larry Kinter, ???
35. Chris Peterson, Unattached
36. Todd Ecer, Cycle Works
37. Jeremy Cook, Midwest Cycling
38. Dustin Bakker, Central Plains Cycling
39. Ken Peterson, Powerade/Independent Fabrication
40. Michael Dixon, Joyride
41. David Randleman, Velo Veloce
42. Nick Madland, Unattached
43. Kenny Murry, Elkhorn Valley Cycling
44. Troy Erlandson, Central Plains Cycling
45. Denny Anderson, Powerade/Independent Fabrication
46. Jeremy Eisenhauer, Midwest Wheelmasters
47. Craig Gerhing, Unattached
48. Kyle Hoff, Central Plains Cycling
49. Roy Kotz, Team Type 1
50. Glenn Hautchras, Velo Veloce
51. Gary Keck, Elkhorn Valley Cycling
52. Lou Anderson, Team Kaos/Alegent Health
53. Rebecca Dilley, Team Kaos/Alegent Health
54. Troy Perry, Velo Veloce
55. Jesse Bergman, Unattached
56. Ed Steck, Powerade/Independent Fabrication
57. Paul Matthew, Unattached
58. Dale Hurt, Powerade/Independent Fabrication
59. Toby Marshall, Unattached
60. Mike Sweun, Unattached
61. Andrea Nielson, Unattached
62. Molly Mize, Powerade/Independent Fabrication
63. Bill Frasier, Red Riders
64. Shane Nicols, Unattached
65. Katie Bergman, Unattached
66. John Paul Engel, Sioux Tri Team

Travis Jass is Iowa State Category 4 Roller Race Champion!!

Fort Dodge Trisport Represents at the 2010 FDCRC Indoor Tri

Travis won his 5th consecutive roller race in Ames on Sunday Feb 21st with a 5:07 time.  Very impressive yet again. 

Good times (both kinds) and good company. Roller racing at it's best.

Thanks to everyone who came to race, Greg & crew for bringing the roller party to Ames, Dick for officiating, and especially my way better half, Leanne, for taking care of all that messy detail stuff.

The rollers ran fast today. The 5 minute "barrier" is overrun twice, four racers run under 5:10, and the men's overall, Cat 3 and Masters 40+ records fell today. WOW!
See you in Kalona.

Shawn Loomis men 1,2,3 04:58.0
Jerome Rewerts men 1,2,3 04:59.0
Derek Cassaday men 1,2,3 05:04.2

Travis Jass men 4 05:07.5
Russel Seaton men 4 05:50.0
Dave Hammer men 4 05:53.4
Mel Grawley men 4 05:54.9
Wm Rekemeyer men 4 06:04.7
Jon Sulzberger men 4 06:12.2
Dan Davis men 4 06:32.0
Paul Lundgren men 4 07:53.6

Shawn Loomis men 40+ 05:09.2
Steve Lauber men 40+ 05:17.5
Greg Harper men 40+ 05:51.4
Paul Lundgren men 40+ 07:41.7

Rob McKillip Cat 5 / citizen 05:34.8
Nick Runtsch Cat 5 / citizen 05:36.9
Kevin Severs Cat 5 / citizen 05:38.2
James Olson Cat 5 / citizen 05:41.4
Jake Leih Cat 5 / citizen 05:48.9
Matt Moehn Cat 5 / citizen 05:54.0
Erick Sorbo Cat 5 / citizen 05:55.9
Ryan Wilcox Cat 5 / citizen 06:02.7
Chris Mann Cat 5 / citizen 06:15.2
Steve Carney Cat 5 / citizen 06:16.7
Brian Terhark Cat 5 / citizen 06:17.0
Zach Kriefels Cat 5 / citizen 06:19.0
Tim McCollough Cat 5 / citizen 06:52.6
Quinn Merrill Cat 5 / citizen 07:04.0
Joe Kapp Cat 5 / citizen 07:07.5

J Zierke-Clark women 06:40.5
Lacey Douglas women 07:01.0
Amy Hutchison women 07:26.7
Kim Topp women 07:28.1

Jake Leih Men - jr 05:48.7
Wm Rekemeyer Men - jr 06:18.8
Rory Loo Men - jr 07:12.5

Lauber tandem tandem 05:45.5

Travis' take on the roller race:  Here are the results from Sunday, darn good turnout, darn fast racin.  Loomis and Cassaday went against each other for the fastest side by side ever.  Was very fun to watch history be made with the first and second EVER sub-5 minute times.  My time was alright, was hoping for a bit better.  I noticed while warming up that my HR was elevated a bit.  Probably from excitement of just seeing 5 min get broke.  As I got going, I was spending more time watching heart rate and mentally contrasting the higher number against how I felt instead of paying attention to a slightly higher cadence for the first 3/4 of the race.  With about a minute to go I shifted up/cadence down and it started clicking a bit better.  Too little too late at that point.  Avg hr 184 max 192 Avg cadence 93. First 4 mins cadence 95 last min 89 rpms. Avg speed 23.3.  Got pic on cell phone in Shimkat parade t shirt.  Want do better next week if we make it, weather sounds ok at this point and they did travel to our race so I should reciprocate....definitaley be sporting trisport shirt then.

Travis Jass has 4th win of 2010

Travis Jass gets his 3rd win in 2010

Well, Saturday January 1/9/10 Travis Jass traveled to Muscatine for the The Harper's Cycling & Fitness Rollerhead 2-mile roller race.  Seventeen riders from Fort Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa City, Cedar Falls, Washington, Cedar Rapids and Muscatine participated.

Travis' comment on this race: "Did not get a picture on the podium even though I had on FD Trisport shirt.  Only 17 riders and notice 0 juniors. P/Tap cut out a couple times but numbers were far different.  I used more gear to bring down cadence.  Avg heart rate was 178, cadence of 85, speed on p/tap said 20.5 mph but on computer system it was 21. 3 or something like that.  With faster time, speed had to have gone up, simple math.  Power went up about 12%.  Felt like I was using more legs than last week, but the lungs hurt all the same."